NASA's Ignition Program: Skipping the Lunar Orbiter and Going Straight for a Moon Base

The new initiative includes a base on the moon, a nuclear-powered flight to Mars and a replacement for the ISS. [...]

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. [...]

How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors

Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert sloppy stillage into hard or activated carbon. [...]

Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid

The first data from 2026 seem to indicate that last year was an oddity. [...]

Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate plat [...]

Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use

In a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annual electricity disclosure for data centers. [...]

Trump names Huang, Ellison, Dell Zuckerberg and more on new White House council to help 'the Golden Age of Innovation'

PCAST will reportedly help advise the President on 'strengthening American leadership in science and technology'. [...]

2026's historic snow drought is bad news for the West

For much of the Western US, winter 2026 was the year snow never came. [...]

Damaged church floor may have revealed the grave of the fourth musketeer

This will not be turning up in the church rummage sale. [...]