Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. The appeal of quality dividend stocks is rising because they provide stability and reliable income when times are tough and broader markets are wavering. Data shows that over a 10-year period through 2019, stocks with reinvested dividends performed […]
A Japanese Yakuza leader pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday for attempting to traffic military-grade weapons and roughly 1,100 lbs of narcotics. Those charges alone will get someone locked up for quite a long time—throw in another conviction for trying to offload thousands of pounds of uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, and it’s unlikely Takeshi […]
In the wide range of articles published by The New York Times this week after the death of former President Jimmy Carter, a fragment of largely forgotten Canadian history resurfaced. The Times’s visual story of his life, told through a variety of objects, reveals how Mr. Carter came to assist in the cleanup of a […]
Precise timekeeping helps us in our daily lives: from pinpointing your precise location with GPS to synchronising financial deals to the millisecond, and physicists are also seeking ever more accurate measurements of time, as super-accurate clocks could help make planet-sized telescopes, hunt for dark matter or even monitor the shape of the planet from the […]
Data centers powering artificial intelligence and cloud computing are pushing energy demand and production to new limits. Global electricity use could rise as much as 75% by 2050, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, with the tech industry’s AI ambitions driving much of the surge. Data centers powering AI and cloud computing could soon […]
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Russian politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Russia is building more than 10 nuclear units abroad as it looks to tap into rising energy demand driven by artificial intelligence and developing markets, according to an envoy of President Vladimir Putin. Moscow is […]
Corruption investigations may have shaken Beijing’s confidence in top commanders, but China’s military expansion hasn’t slowed, a report found.
Rendering of a proposed Oklo commercial advanced fission power plant in the U.S. Courtesy: Oklo Inc. Nuclear startup Oklo aims to deploy 12 gigawatts of power over the next two decades through a framework agreement with data center operator Switchthe companies announced Wednesday. Oklo would deploy what amounts to a fleet of small nuclear reactors […]
MOSCOW (AP) — An explosive device planted near an apartment building in Moscow killed the head of Russia’s nuclear and chemical forces early Tuesday, officials said. Russia’s Investigative Committee said the bomb, which was triggered by the device placed in a scooter, killed Lt. General Igor Kirillov and his assistant. Kirillov, who was named the […]
Nature, Published online: 09 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03891-4 Ekkehard Peik is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
