The First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest (1954)(newyorker.com)

73 points by paulette449 3 years ago | 38 comments

The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin (2016)(newyorker.com)

63 points by sklargh 3 years ago | 48 comments

How Jensen Huang's Nvidia is powering the A.I. revolution(newyorker.com)

136 points by paladin314159 2 years ago | 84 comments

In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology(newyorker.com)

20 points by samizdis 16 days ago | 1 comments

New Yorker piece by Sheelah Kolhatkar on Alex Gibney's documentary "Musk," which examines how Elon Musk accumulated power and challenges his self-mythology.

Cal Newport: It's Time to Dismantle the Technopoly(newyorker.com)

18 points by mitchbob 2 years ago | 9 comments

A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995)(newyorker.com)

97 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 19 comments

Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years(phys.org)

158 points by geox 19 days ago | 67 comments

Phys.org news article on research finding Chernobyl fuel particles remain unexpectedly stable after 40 years; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040(cbc.ca)

518 points by geox 4 months ago | 358 comments

CBC News article on Canada's federal nuclear strategy planning up to 10 new reactors by 2040, potentially costing over $100 billion.

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal(science.org)

97 points by xqcgrek2 24 days ago | 47 comments

Science magazine news article reporting that analysis of uranium cubes shows Nazi Germany's experimental reactor lacked enough uranium and heavy water to succeed.

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants(dpa-international.com)

828 points by mpweiher 5 months ago | 844 comments

A dpa International news report that Belgium is halting the decommissioning of its nuclear power plants.

First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation(eia.gov)

949 points by ano-ther 2 years ago | 998 comments

U.S. EIA Today in Energy article reporting that Vogtle Unit 3, the first new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016, has entered commercial operation.

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

378 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 179 comments

MIT Press Reader article recounting the history of Tor, from its origins as a US military research project to a widely used privacy and anonymity tool.