America’s teenagers and young adults are experiencing a “troubling rise” in anxiety, depression, emergency room visits, suicidal thoughts, and suicide, the Centers for Disease Control, psychological and psychiatric organizations, schools, and other observers are reporting … yet again.   CDC’s 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 40% of American students experienced persistent feelings of hopelessness, 28% experienced poor mental health, 20% seriously considered attempting suicide, and 10% had attempted suicide.   The researchers […]

Saskatoon-based Cameco is a 21st-century global nuclear energy leader as North America’s largest supplier of nuclear fuel for fission reactors. In its latest supply-and-demand market update, Cameco’s president Grant Isaac said that uranium markets remain structurally undersupplied and that major utilities negotiating long-term contracts are modeling uranium oxide prices near $120 per pound.   Traditionally, centrifuges have

It’s hurricane season again, and a few things about it are as certain as death and taxes. First, some named storms, tropical storms, hurricanes, and cyclones will form somewhere, sometime, in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Second, one or more of those storms will cause some degree of damage in some country or another. Third,

The artificial intelligence revolution is leaving green electricity states behind. Network operators are choosing states with policies favorable for gas-fired power to support construction of new data centers. States that block data center construction or try to force firms to use wind and solar electricity will lose the economic benefits of the AI boom.  We are in the midst of an AI revolution on a scale that may exceed the internet revolution of twenty