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Nuclear

Amazon’s deal to pull 1.92 gigawatts from the Susquehanna nuclear plant goes live this spring

Amazon is preparing to draw power directly from the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station in Pennsylvania under a co-location arrangement that would let the company tap nuclear generation without routing it through the regional grid. The deal, filed with federal regulators under FERC docket ER24-2172, sits at the center of a growing fight over whether hyperscale […]

By Everett Sloane

Naval

U.S. Navy destroyers are escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz

By Kade Winslow

SUV’s

Figure’s humanoid robots built 30,000 BMW SUVs over 10 months on a single line

By Rowan Calder

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off western Cuba, rattling Havana and drawing 5,000 felt reports

By BeckhamLangford

A Palo Alto PAN-OS flaw lets attackers slip past security and open a rogue VPN

By Cassian Holt

Tropical Storm Cristina churns the Pacific as NOAA forecasts a below-normal Atlantic season

By Everett Sloane

A fusion startup says its prototype packed 440 gigawatts into one 80-nanosecond burst

By Everett Sloane

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Science

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off western Cuba, rattling Havana and drawing 5,000 felt reports

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

A research ship off Brazil filmed a giant Haliphron octopus almost never seen alive

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Orcas off Mexico flip great white sharks upside down and tear out the liver

By BeckhamLangford

Health

A new melanoma treatment cut the deadly cancer’s return by nearly half over five years

By BeckhamLangford

Cybersecurity

A Palo Alto PAN-OS flaw lets attackers slip past security and open a rogue VPN

By Cassian Holt

Cybersecurity

Up to 270 million iPhones may still run software with a takeover flaw, researchers warn

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

SpaceX is readying Booster 20 for its next Starship test after an engine cut out early

By Cassian Holt

Naval

U.S. Navy destroyers are escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz

By Kade Winslow

Naval

A U.S. Navy sea drone rescued two downed American aircrew near the Strait of Hormuz — the first robotic rescue in Navy history

By Kade Winslow

Military

India test-fired its RudraM-II from a Su-30, a Mach 5.5 missile built to blind radar

By Kade Winslow

AI

Anthropic passed OpenAI as the world’s most valuable AI company at a $965 billion valuation

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a frontier model built for long-form fiction and scripts

By Dorian Maddox

AI

AI is starting to change how mathematicians and physicists ask questions, reshaping human intuition rather than replacing it, a new analysis argues

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Training one large AI model can emit as much carbon as several cars’ lifetimes

By Dorian Maddox

SUV’s

Figure’s humanoid robots built 30,000 BMW SUVs over 10 months on a single line

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Battery demand from electric trucks more than doubled in a year worldwide

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Chinese researchers unveiled a 500 watt-hour battery that could push an EV past 1,000 kilometers

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

A cruising jet flies through air a quarter as dense as at sea level

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Regenerative braking recharges an electric truck a little every time it slows

By Rowan Calder

Cars

The average car sits parked about 95% of its entire life

By Rowan Calder

Watercraft

The largest container ships can stack more than 24,000 steel boxes at once

By Rowan Calder

Watercraft

The largest container ships afloat can stack more than 24,000 boxes at once

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Lithium now costs more than twice what it did a year ago, squeezing the batteries at the heart of every electric car

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Regenerative braking lets an EV recharge a little every time the driver slows down

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Slate opens orders June 24 for its bare-bones electric pickup, a no-frills truck targeting 150 miles on the standard battery and 240 on the bigger one

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

The plug-in Ram 1500 REV pairs a 92-kWh battery with a V6 generator to target 690 miles of range, 145 of them all-electric

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

An electric car turns roughly 90% of its battery energy into motion, while a gas engine wastes most as heat

By Rowan Calder

Cars

The average car sits parked about 95% of the time it is owned

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Volvo unveiled new electric trucks rated for up to 700 kilometers on a charge, pushing battery range into long-haul territory

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

A United regional jet diverted to Midland after an in-flight problem, landing safely

By Rowan Calder

Nuclear

Amazon’s deal to pull 1.92 gigawatts from the Susquehanna nuclear plant goes live this spring

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Tropical Storm Cristina churns the Pacific as NOAA forecasts a below-normal Atlantic season

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

A fusion startup says its prototype packed 440 gigawatts into one 80-nanosecond burst

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

CISA is telling water and transit utilities to prepare for a crisis that cuts their internet

By Everett Sloane