We have the first video of a plant cell wall being built

Plant cells without a cell wall are fragile, so it's hard to image its construction. [...]

This Star System Contains 5 Potentially Habitable Planets

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four other worlds in the temperate zone of an intriguing planetary system. [...]

For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids

Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel installations. [...]

Deepmind's research AI occasionally solves what humans can't and mostly gets everything else wrong

Google Deepmind's AI agent Aletheia independently wrote a math paper, disproved a decade-old conjecture, and caught an error that cryptography experts had missed. But a systematic evaluation acro [...]

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. [...]

How a data center company uses stranded renewable energy

Some companies are paying low rates for renewable energy that would otherwise go unused. [...]

Ice, Ice, Maybe? Scientists Are Trying to Regrow Ice in the Arctic With Simple Tech

Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a worrisome rate. What if there were a way to slow that down? [...]

AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse

A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI. [...]

A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor

It's slow and inefficient, but the semiconductor is only one molecule thick. [...]