“I don’t want to gamble on which major city or two we lose in a scenario like that.” Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat in his 11th year on Capitol Hill, had some things to say when the House Armed Services Committee met last month to write President Trump’s…
Half of a year of data shows that the solar boom is not slowing down. On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Agency released its latest data on how the US generated electricity during the first six months of 2025. The data suggests the notable surge in power use is…
“We wish we were young again and NASA was this vivacious, you know?” STARBASE, Texas—For the third day in a row, SpaceX engineers prepared to send the company’s massive Starship rocket into space Tuesday after a technical problem and bad weather grounded the test flight on two previous launch…
Triple-fermented Belgian beers have the longest-lasting foam; single-fermented lagers have the shortest. For many beer lovers, a nice thick head of foam is one of life’s pure pleasures, and the longer that foam lasts, the better the beer-drinking experience. A team of Swiss researchers spent seven years studying why…
If they improve further, AI weather models may very well become the gold standard. In early June, shortly after the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season, Google unveiled a new model designed specifically to forecast the tracks and intensity of tropical cyclones. Part of the Google DeepMind suite of…
Project was 80 percent complete and was slated to power more than 350,000 homes. The Trump administration on Friday issued an order to stop work on a nearly complete offshore wind energy project, the latest step in the Trump administration’s crackdown on wind power. In a letter to Orsted,…
Mexican tetras in pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs. Time and again, whenever a population was swept into a cave and survived long enough for natural selection to have its way, the eyes disappeared. “But it’s not that everything has been lost in cavefish,” says…
“The boost kit will help sustain the orbiting lab’s altitude, starting in September.” SpaceX completed its 33rd cargo delivery to the International Space Station early Monday, when a Dragon supply ship glided to an automated docking with more than 5,000 pounds of scientific experiments and provisions for the lab’s…
SpaceX is gearing up for another Starship launch after three straight disappointing test flights. STARBASE, Texas—A beehive of aerospace technicians, construction workers, and spaceflight fans descended on South Texas this weekend in advance of the next test flight of SpaceX’s gigantic Starship rocket, the largest vehicle of its kind…
If you think climate change is a hoax, you might believe wind turbines poison groundwater. When Donald Trump recently claimed, during what was supposed to be a press conference about a European Union trade deal, that wind turbines were a “con job” that drive whales “loco,” kill birds and…
