Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk

Too much hardware was allowed to disconnect right at the edge of normal conditions. [...]

Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA

WindBorne Systems is one of several companies launching balloons, drones, buoys, and other devices to provide critical data to the beleaguered agency’s National Weather Service, but they can’t fil [...]

How to Use Clean Energy Tax Credits Before They Disappear

There are just a few weeks left to tap federal programs that make purchasing an EV, heat pump, or solar panels more affordable. [...]

Mysterious Compound Detected on Pluto and Titan

Something on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic databases. [...]

You Should Be More Freaked Out by Shingles

The viral infection leaves millions with chronic pain, increased stroke risk, and lifelong nerve damage—yet vaccination rates remain dangerously low. [...]

Providers dropping common anesthesia drug that’s also a climate super pollutant

The European Union now prohibits desflurane's use during most procedures. [...]

New training method boosts AI multimodal reasoning with smaller, smarter datasets

Researchers at MiroMind AI and several Chinese universities have released OpenMMReasoner, a new training framework that improves the capabilities of language models in multimodal reasoning.The framewo [...]

Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses

Hibernation cuts down on synapses, but mice seem to retain memories anyway. [...]

Canon R50 V review: An affordable vlogging camera that lags behind its rivals

Canon has released 20 cameras since launching the RF mount in 2018, but it had one gaping hole in a key market: vlogging. Now, the company has patched that with the launch of the $700 R50 V that’s a [...]