Gamereactor

First contact with Aphelion: Something between Interstellar, Uncharted, and Alien: Isolation

When you try a Don't Nod title, you never know for sure what you're going to find: first as a developer and then as a publisher, it has been rapidly expanding its portfolio of game styles, which in ...
SpaceNews

NASA and DOE to collaborate on lunar nuclear reactor development

WASHINGTON — NASA and the Department of Energy have agreed to work together on development of nuclear reactors for the moon as industry awaits the release of a final call for proposals. NASA and DOE ...
CNN

New-wave reactors are the face of an American nuclear renaissance. Some experts are sounding alarms

On the sandy shores of Lake Michigan, set against a backdrop of thick forest, a sharp-angled grey concrete building could be the face of an American nuclear renaissance. The Palisades nuclear plant, ...
Newsweek

Warning Issued That Alien Revelations Could Spark Financial Crisis

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...
Yardbarker

When Does Alien Isolation 2 Release?

Alien Isolation 2 made headlines when the sequel was first announced in October 2024. The announcement was part of the 10th anniversary celebration of the first Alien Isolation game, which was ...
Scientific American

NASA Commits to Plan to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon by 2030

The moon is going nuclear. On Tuesday NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced a commitment to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface. NASA has been exploring nuclear power for the moon ...
Popular Mechanics

China’s Fusion Reactor Reached an ‘Unbreakable’ Limit—and Broke Right Through It

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The plasma density barrier is a mathematical limit to the density of plasma that can exist in a tokamak before destabilizing. A new study led by a ...
MIT Technology Review

How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint

From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology. Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive ...
New Atlas

Earth built a nuclear reactor two billion years before we did

Two billion years before we made history and split the atom, the Earth had already accomplished it and was running its own nuclear reactors. And they operated for hundreds of thousands of years, as ...
Polygon

Alien: Isolation's Xenomorph doesn’t need to resort to try-hard jumpscares

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...
New Atlas

Aircraft carrier nuclear reactors could help solve AI's power problem

If you have a redundant nuclear aircraft carrier lying around, you can give HGP Intelligent Energy a call. The Texas-based developer wants to repurpose the nuclear reactors used to power carriers to ...