Trump Promised to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’ The New Rigs Are Nowhere to Be Found

With clean energy more cost-competitive than it once was, the White House’s oil-first strategy is faltering. [...]

SpaceX Wants to Launch 1 Million AI Data Center Satellites. Experts Share the High Cost of Turning Space Into a Junkyard

As Musk prepares for the largest IPO in history, SpaceX's plan to park a million data centers in Earth’s orbit has left scientists worried about a "WALL-E" style orbital graveyard. [...]

I nearly melted my laptop so you don’t have to — after testing cooling pads for chilling your laptop during a heatwave, I’ve got serious data to drop on the coolest and quietest products you can buy

I’ve spent a week in a boiling hot lab so I can dish up hard science on the best cooling pad for chilling your laptop during a heatwave. [...]

Trump promised a drilling boom, but US energy industry hasn’t been interested

Exec: “Liberation Day chaos and tariff antics have harmed the domestic energy industry." [...]

How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery

Burr Oak Cemetery is the final resting place of Emmett Till and blues singer Willie Dixon, among others. [...]

Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago

We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore. [...]

150 million-year-old pterosaur cold case has finally been solved

The storm literally snapped the bones in their wings. [...]

Even the Internet’s Favorite Pool Guy Doesn’t Know How to Fix the Reflecting Pool

Algae blooms, peeling paint, and a host of fixes from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubblers have made it hard to diagnose what's wrong with the Reflecting Pool, let alone how to clean up the mess. [...]

OpenAGI emerges from stealth with an AI agent that it claims crushes OpenAI and Anthropic

A stealth artificial intelligence startup founded by an MIT researcher emerged this morning with an ambitious claim: its new AI model can control computers better than systems built by OpenAI and Anth [...]