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As a brutal, relentless heat wave back in June sent temperatures in much of the U.S. soaring above 100 degrees day after day for weeks, the need to keep the air conditioners humming in the face of faltering, strained electric grids became a life-threatening struggle. Throughout most of the affected regions, aging nuclear and fossil-fuel power plants, which generate nearly 80 percent of the electricity in the U.S., broke down under the damaging heat and the enormous electric loads. Even Californi…
11 months ago
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Israel’s 40-mile-long chain of walls and fences at its Gaza border teems with sensors and automated weapons. It is supported by an electronic intelligence network that monitors every phone call, text message and email in the territory. A large, well-trained military stands ready with state-of-the-art weaponry to respond rapidly to threats.These defenses were built upon much the same technology that the U.S. military uses to keep its citizens safe and watch over its interests around the world and…
about 1 year ago
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Satellites that collect solar power and transmit it down to Earth might sound like science-fiction, but researchers are working to make it a reality.
about 1 year ago
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It’s changing the nature of work and management in surprising ways and rippling through the economy and much of society.
about 1 year ago
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A new "plasma igniter" device could potentially replace traditional spark plugs and help cars burn fuel more cleanly and efficiently
about 1 year ago
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Despite a proliferation of diets supposedly based on science, most theories about what to eat and why are flawed.
about 1 year ago
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Skip the junk, cook your own food
about 1 year ago
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In 1998, a 10-year-old Robert Kabera was trying to study a high school science textbook by the light of a kerosene lamp in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. But the strong desert winds kept blowing it out as soon as he lit it. “I didn’t know much about electricity back then,” he recalls. “I just knew that after living with darkness for six years, I had become obsessed with light.“The darkness Kabera is referring to isn’t just literal. A refugee from the Rwandan genocide, his family of six, along…
over 1 year ago
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The next wave in construction are ultra-sustainable buildings, which hit environmental goals that would have seemed inconceivable just ten years ago
over 1 year ago
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Gaurab Chakrabarti and Sean Hunt of startup Solugen think they've found a carbon-neutral way of making everyday chemicals for households and industries
over 1 year ago
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It’s impossible to know exactly what changes artificial intelligence will bring. We asked the experts anyway
over 1 year ago
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Hackers, armed with high-tech tools and flush with funds, are quietly ruining people’s livelihoods, reputations and businesses. The cyber police are outmatched.
almost 2 years ago
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California’s plan to go all electric on new cars by 2035 is far more ambitious
than past clean-air efforts—but high risk given how unreliable the power grid
is.
almost 2 years ago
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“If you thought it was insane during his first term, you haven’t seen anything yet,” says one political strategist.
about 2 years ago
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The world seems to be entering a new, deadly era of health threats from
infectious diseases—old ones we thought we’d wiped out, and new ones on the rise
about 2 years ago
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New evidence of crimes has triggered an unprecedented debate over the wisdom and
pragmatics of charging, trying, convicting and jailing a former president
over 2 years ago
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Overturning Roe won’t stop States from tying abortion access to fetal viability.
over 2 years ago
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A spate of new laws in Europe and the U.S. foreshadow what could be the end of
dominance for Google, Facebook and Amazon
over 2 years ago
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As the demand for energy rises, miniaturized nuclear power plants could be a
climate-friendly new source. But some critics aren’t so sure
almost 3 years ago
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If armed violence erupts in 2024, the fate of the nation might well be decided
by a simple fact: a big subset of the Republican Party has been systemically
arming itself for this very reason.
almost 3 years ago
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The reluctance of scientists, doctors and regulators to endorse ivermectin as a
COVID-19 treatment has inflamed the political right and left in the U.S.
about 3 years ago
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