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Astronomy

A single day on Venus lasts longer than a whole year there

Venus takes 243 Earth days to complete a single rotation on its axis, yet it circles the Sun in roughly 225 Earth days. That means a day on Venus, measured by how long the planet takes to spin once, actually outlasts the planet’s own year. The mismatch is one of the strangest timing quirks in […]

By BeckhamLangford

Military

A robotic gun called Bullfrog that tracks and shoots drones out of the sky just won $200 million to ramp up production for the US military

By Kade Winslow

Science

Mount Everest rises a few millimeters every year as two plates collide

By BeckhamLangford

A chip the size of rice can pack tens of billions of transistors

By Cassian Holt

The James Webb telescope turned up a hidden population of giant black holes that slip past nearly every traditional way of spotting them

By BeckhamLangford

Forecasters warn a multi-day severe weather outbreak will pound the upper Midwest and northern Plains through Thursday with large hail, damaging winds and a few strong tornadoes

By Everett Sloane

US wind and solar together out-generated coal across all of 2025, a milestone the country first crossed only a year earlier

By Everett Sloane

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Astronomy

A single day on Venus lasts longer than a whole year there

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Mount Everest rises a few millimeters every year as two plates collide

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

The James Webb telescope turned up a hidden population of giant black holes that slip past nearly every traditional way of spotting them

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

Your nose can recognize roughly a trillion distinct smells

By BeckhamLangford

Hardware and Semiconductors

A chip the size of rice can pack tens of billions of transistors

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

The Space Station orbits every 90 minutes, so its crew sees 16 sunrises daily

By Cassian Holt

Cybersecurity

Most ransomware gangs now steal your data before locking it, so backups alone fall short

By Cassian Holt

Military

A robotic gun called Bullfrog that tracks and shoots drones out of the sky just won $200 million to ramp up production for the US military

By Kade Winslow

Naval

Those new undersea drones will take on the Pacific’s deadliest jobs, from mine-laying to spying, while crewed subs stay clear

By Kade Winslow

Aviation

A stealth jet dodges radar mainly through its angular shape, not its coating

By Kade Winslow

AI

Training today’s biggest AI models can draw as much power as small countries

By Dorian Maddox

AI

An AI chatbot does not know facts, it just predicts the next likely word

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Training a single large AI model can burn as much electricity as hundreds of homes use in a year

By Dorian Maddox

AI

An autonomous AI agent surfaced in days what two decades of human reviewers had missed, a turning point for how software flaws get found

By Dorian Maddox

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

Trucks

GM is recalling 1,191 Silverado EV and Sierra EV trucks over a stability-control warning fault

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Ford is recalling its 2026 E-Transit electric vans over battery packs that could arc and ignite

By Rowan Calder

Watercraft

If the mystery Chinese submarine runs on diesel, it would be the largest conventional sub afloat anywhere on Earth

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Uber is sinking up to $1.25 billion into Rivian to put 50,000 self-driving R2s on the road, with the first 10,000 headed to San Francisco and Miami

By Rowan Calder

Extreme Weather

Forecasters warn a multi-day severe weather outbreak will pound the upper Midwest and northern Plains through Thursday with large hail, damaging winds and a few strong tornadoes

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

US wind and solar together out-generated coal across all of 2025, a milestone the country first crossed only a year earlier

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

An electric motor turns about 90% of its battery energy into motion

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Solar and wind now beat new coal plants on cost across most of the world

By Everett Sloane