2025-01-18

2025 Is a Year Full of Meteor Showers: Here's When the Next One Is Due

Start off the new year by watching a skyful of shooting stars. [...]

2025-01-18

Influencers Are Hawking Wellness Products in Response to the LA Fires

Essential oils, detox regimens, parasite cleanses, and raw milk have entered the disaster economy. [...]

2025-01-18

Why Dumping Seawater on Blazes Isn’t the Answer to California’s Wildfire Problem

Firefighting planes are dumping water from the ocean on the Los Angeles fires, but using saltwater is typically a last resort. [...]

2025-01-18

Has Trump changed the retirement plans for the country’s largest coal plants?

A growth in electricity demand is leading to talk of delayed closures. [...]

2025-01-17

The FAA is grounding SpaceX's Starship after its latest explosion

The Federal Aviation Administration is ordering SpaceX to conduct a mishap investigation into what caused the company's Starship rocket to explode mid-flight on January 16. Until the FAA approves [...]

2025-01-17

SpaceX's Starship explodes during ascent in its seventh test flight

The Starship's seventh test flight ended in an explosion when the vehicle's upper stage "experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn" over the Atlantic Ocean [...]

2025-01-17

See 6 Planets Align on January 21

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that the next won’t happen until 2040. [...]

2025-01-17

Can You Get Rich Using a Raspberry Pi to Mine Cryptocurrency?

The profit margin on crypto mining is all about the physics of computers and energy conversion. [...]

2025-01-17

A solid electrolyte gives lithium-sulfur batteries ludicrous endurance

Sulfur can store a lot more lithium but is problematically reactive in batteries. [...]