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These new models of failed supernovae demonstrate how both normal brightness and extremely dim supernovae are generated from the same basic picture of a nuclear-burning white dwarf star, he added.
FORBES: When A Supernova ... Fizzles
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Nuclear power is a clean burning fuel.
FORBES: China Puts Nuclear Power Plans on Hold
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When countries do have a burning desire for nuclear weapons, it can normally be put down to a need for symbolic prowess or the existence of an adversary of some sort be it next-door neighbour or far-off hegemon who already has them.
ECONOMIST: The ostrich��s view of the world
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It could be used instead of stainless steel to line a nuclear reactor, which would extend the reactor's working life and allow it to be operated more efficiently by burning a higher percentage of nuclear fuel.
ECONOMIST: New materials for renewable energy
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Workers struggled to contain a burning reactor at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant as the site emitted small but worrying amounts of radiation.
ECONOMIST: Politics this week
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Mr Brown has previously called for the UK to increase its nuclear power capacity as an alternative to burning fossil fuels, which many experts believe to be a cause of climate change.
BBC: Nuclear list 'not yet finalised'
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Its increase in coal-burning is increasing almost as much as nuclear, wind and hydro combined.
BBC: Burning issues for the world's future
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Nuclear energy is, correctly, viewed as different than just burning stuff.
FORBES: Post Fukushima-- burn more coal and oil, and hire more engineers not regulators
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China stalled its production of dozens of new nuclear power stations, but has since returned to building out the clean-burning, but potentially hazardous, energy source.
FORBES: Brazil's Senate OKs Tax Breaks for Nuclear Power
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We also explored several pressing environmental issues as record levels of radiation were found in fish near Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant and we delved into the Gates of Hell -- a burning gas crater in Turkmenistan that has been ablaze for 41 years.
ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: a locomotive that runs on hydrogen, honey detective and a 30 mph-capable hover bike
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The production of modern wind turbines, solar panels and nuclear power plants are extremely energy-intensive enterprises, and are by and large powered by the burning of fossil fuels.
FORBES: Thank Mother Earth for Oil, Natural Gas and Other Fossil Fuels