Gutting USAID Will Have a Monumental Effect on Combating Climate Change

The agency was a key player in renewable energy and disaster protection around the world—until Elon Musk showed up. [...]

US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US

Payment reimburses the company for two leases, one for a massive 3 GW wind farm. [...]

Planet found orbiting backward between two stars

The planet may have formed from material transferred between the stars. [...]

There’s nothing new about Silicon Valley’s food hacking

The disrupterati are bored, and they want to play with your food. Having flattened shopping, unshackled education, hotwired our wheels and loggified our daily lives, they now want to get into our mout [...]

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for macroscale quantum tunneling

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip. [...]

Here we go again: Retiring coal plant forced to stay open by Trump Admin

This time, a Colorado plant scheduled to shut down will be kept on standby. [...]

Artemis II crew is like just like us, needs help with Microsoft Outlook issues

The four history-making Artemis II crew members are cooped up with each other in a tiny space for 10 days. And yet the most uncomfortable aspect of the mission might be having to deal with not one, bu [...]

Space Elevators Could Totally Work—If Earth Days Were Much Shorter

What would it take to run a cable from the ISS to Earth? Depends how fast you want the Earth to rotate. [...]

Harvard beats Trump as judge orders US to restore $2.6 billion in funding

Judge rules Trump admin broke law, and says Supreme Court has been "unhelpful." [...]