Neutral-atom arrays, a rapidly emerging quantum computing platform, get a boost from researchers

For quantum computers to outperform their classical counterparts, they need more quantum bits, or qubits. State-of-the-art ...
NPR

How a power outage in Colorado caused U.S. official time to be 4.8 microseconds off

The U.S. government calculates the country's official time using more than a dozen atomic clocks at a federal facility northwest of Denver. But when a destructive windstorm knocked out power to the ...
The Denver Post

Colorado power outages disrupt atomic clock in Boulder

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Power shut off across Colorado last week as hurricane-force winds swept across the state. In Boulder, one of those outages caused time to briefly stand still ...
iaea.org

IAEA Raises Nuclear Power Projections for Fifth Consecutive Year

For the fifth year in a row, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear power, as global momentum continues to build behind this clean ...
Yahoo

New Sky Original series Atomic sets up an explosive season 2, but the cast have other ideas

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Think big action sequences, life-or-death situations and, thankfully, a killer season finale that ...
The New York Times

Trump Has Dropped an ‘Atomic Bomb’ on the Department of Justice

I want to begin with a tale of scandals past. On June 27, 2016, with Hillary Clinton in the thick of her presidential contest against Donald Trump, her husband met briefly with Attorney General ...
Los Angeles Times

Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a moral necessity

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, those two ...
Christian Science Monitor

Hiroshima at 80: As Japan’s commitment to nuclear abolition wanes, activists dig in

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
NBC New York

80 years later, Hiroshima bombing survivors warn of rising nuclear threat

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing support of global leaders ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Editor’s note: This article was sent to employees of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1995, at the 50th anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I originally wrote the following ...
TheServerSide

How to use Java's var keyword

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Packaged as part of the 2018 version 10 release, the Java var reserved word introduced type ...