Technology
The UK Has No Coal-Fired Power Plants for the First Time...
With Monday's closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, coal is no longer being used to provide electricity in the UK.
23andMe Is Sinking Fast. Can the Company Survive?
The home DNA testing boom is over, and 23andMe is running out of options.
Hurricane Helene Will Send Shockwaves Through the Semiconductor...
Downpours at Spruce Pine, North Carolina have taken the biggest known deposit of high-purity quartz offline, leaving the global tech...
The Vagus Nerve’s Crucial Role in Creating the Human Sense...
Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including...
These Record-Breaking New Solar Panels Produce 60 Percent...
Experimental cells that combine silicon with a material called perovskite have broken the efficiency record for converting solar energy—and...
An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse—and...
A NASA inspector general report gives new details on a leak that has plagued the ISS for five years, and reveals that the agency considers...
A Lawsuit From Backers of a ‘Startup City’ Could Bankrupt...
The country faces a wave of claims after it repealed a law allowing for special economic zones. Chief among them is an American company...
The Titan Submersible Hearings End With Few Solid Answers....
The Coast Guard hearings into the OceanGate disaster are done. Next comes the full report—and any potential criminal investigations.
Scientists Figured Out How to Recycle Plastic by Vaporizing...
A new technique could prevent tons of waste in the future—if it can scale.
Solar Sails and Comet Tails: How Sunlight Pushes Stuff...
It seems crazy, but light actually exerts a physical force on objects. It could power a new generation of spacecraft for deep-space...
