If you've ever needed a taxi or Uber to get from Manhattan to John F. Kennedy International Airport ("JFK"), you know how grueling that ride can be – especially if you're in a rush. Typically, it takes about 45 minutes to an hour. You have to fight your way through downtown traffic. If you get […]

When companies are struggling, there are a few popular ways executives can try to turn around the decline in share price. They can lay off employees and cut costs, sell off parts of the business or acquire a company, or even buy back shares of their own stock (if they have the cash). But there […]

The most aggressive push for nuclear energy in decades is now unleashed... Last week, President Donald Trump inked multiple executive orders related to nuclear power – signaling that America's energy policy is entering a new atomic age. Once the pride of U.S. energy, the nuclear-energy sector has been in retreat for decades... burdened by red […]

Whitney Tilson here... I recently did a 14-minute interview with MarketBeat about the nuclear sector, where stocks have recovered strongly from the recent pullback... Regular readers know that I see long-term upside potential for the sector. And in my interview, I discussed some of the recent developments as well as a handful of stocks. The […]

Rick Perry is an expert when it comes to American energy policy – so when he speaks, we listen... The former governor of Texas, Rick oversaw booms in both fossil fuels and renewables during his terms. He also served as Secretary of Energy during President Donald Trump's first term in the White House. Seven months […]

In the early 2000s, U.S. doctors only did a few hundred robotic procedures each year... That number is well beyond 1 million today – and still climbing.

Last month, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility ("NIF") more than doubled the yield of its previous, record-setting fusion experiment. NIF – the world's first facility to achieve a net gain fusion reaction – recently produced 8.6 megajoules ("MJ") of energy, blowing past its 2022 output of 3.15 MJ. Both experiments […]

The total budget was estimated to be as high as $540 million. The story centered on a wandering outlaw in the old American West, dodging run-ins with bounty hunters while looking for the next big score. The marketing team spared no expense... Billboards were plastered on city buses, subways, and even on the big screens […]

At 1 a.m. on a chilly December morning in 2022, a team of scientists in California crowded around a lab console as the readouts spiked... For a fleeting moment, they had created a miniature star on Earth. In that experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility, 192 giant lasers blasted a tiny pellet […]

A van full of FBI agents pulled up and surrounded 12-year-old Jackson Oswalt's house... They weren't there to arrest him though... They were looking for his science project. The boy from Memphis, Tennessee had convinced his parents to let him build the project after seeing an article about an amateur nuclear physicist on the Internet. […]