You may have seen the movies like Terminator and iRobot. They all depict our nightmare scenario that, one day, robots and artificial intelligence will take over the world. You might think, “Have we not already seen things like artificial intelligence and robotics crash and burn?”  And the answer is yes, spectacularly, in some cases.  In just March of this year,...

It’s the season to get spooky here in Oxford! There are a ton of Halloween-themed events coming up in town that can suit everyone’s Halloween mood. Whether...

University of Mississippi physicists have been awarded $3 million by the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct Nuclear fuel storage research over the next three years on ways to assess the internal components of a dry cask storage. According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, by the end of 2009 there were more than 62,000 tons of spent fuel accumulated in the United...