2025-06-14

Wood Pellet Mills Are Prone to Catching Fire. Why Build Them in California?

Facilities that make wood pellets have a track record of catching alight. Yet there are plans to build several near Yosemite’s tinderbox forests. [...]

2025-06-13

This Chinese Spacecraft Is Traveling to One of Earth’s Quasi-Moons

The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: the quasi-moon Kamo’oalewa. [...]

2025-06-13

These VA Tech scientists are building a better fog harp

Combining vertical "strings" with periodic horizontal wires stops clogging and clumping, boosts efficiency. [...]

2025-06-13

Alaska, Where Only 2% of Homes Have AC, Just Issued Its First Heat Advisory Ever

Unseasonable warmth coming soon to Alaska has prompted the first-ever heat advisory for residents. [...]

2025-06-13

Are Those Viral ‘Cooling Blankets’ for Real?

According to physics, any blanket can cool you—for a few minutes. But a real cooling blanket is possible with phase-change materials. [...]

2025-06-12

See the Sun in a Way You've Never Seen It Before, From Above and Below

The sun has been photographed and imaged many times, but never from the top or bottom. [...]

2025-06-12

Google DeepMind is sharing its AI forecasts with the National Weather Service

Here's an AI-government collaboration of a less… unsettling variety than some. Google DeepMind is teaming up with the National Hurricane Center (NHC) for tropical cyclone season. The AI researc [...]

2025-06-12

Quantum art, multiball, and AI selfies: TNW 2025’s best side quests

Qubits, entanglement, superposition, trapped ions, Schrödinger’s cat. These terms sound strange because the world of quantum mechanics — where things can exist in multiple states at once — is s [...]

2025-06-12

Experimental retina implants give mice infrared vision

A light-sensitive wire mesh implanted in the retina helps restore nerve impulses. [...]