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Energy Transition

The world added a record 814 gigawatts of wind and solar last year

The world installed a record 814 gigawatts of combined wind and solar capacity in 2025, according to the International Energy Agency’s Global Energy Review 2026. China drove the largest share of new commissioning, while India posted strong wind additions of its own. The surge raises a direct question: whether this pace of clean power deployment […]

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

U.S. renewables outproduced natural gas across a full month for the first time in March

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

S&P Global expects data-center power demand to roughly triple by 2030

By Everett Sloane

A single AI data center now draws 80 megawatts, more than double an ordinary one

By Dorian Maddox

Sam Altman’s fusion startup Helion aims to put first electrons on the grid by 2028

By Everett Sloane

The last giant magnet for the world’s biggest fusion reactor has reached France

By Everett Sloane

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

By Everett Sloane

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Astronomy

Alaska’s Mount Kupreanof is slowly oozing lava inside its summit crater

By BeckhamLangford

Science

A landslide from the Philippine quake buried 13 villagers in the town of Glan

By BeckhamLangford

Science

A magnitude 6.5 quake hit the southern Philippines hours after the deadly 7.8

By BeckhamLangford

Health

A(H5) bird flu is still circulating in U.S. dairy cows and poultry

By BeckhamLangford

Hardware and Semiconductors

CATL says its next sodium-ion battery clears 500 kilometers and is ready for mass production

By Cassian Holt

Software, Apps, and Big Tech

Google says its most powerful Gemini model yet is coming this month

By Cassian Holt

Commercial Aircraft

Boeing and Airbus now hold about 12 years of unfilled orders, a 16,683-jet backlog

By Cassian Holt

Military

Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz again after suspending talks with Washington

By Kade Winslow

Naval

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

By Kade Winslow

Military

Castelion plans to build thousands of Blackbeard hypersonic missiles a year

By Kade Winslow

AI

A single AI data center now draws 80 megawatts, more than double an ordinary one

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Code-1-Flash, its first model that turns descriptions into working code

By Dorian Maddox

AI

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

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Microsoft built its own coding AI to lean less on OpenAI

By Dorian Maddox

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

SUV’s

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

By Rowan Calder

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

Energy Transition

The world added a record 814 gigawatts of wind and solar last year

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

U.S. renewables outproduced natural gas across a full month for the first time in March

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

S&P Global expects data-center power demand to roughly triple by 2030

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Sam Altman’s fusion startup Helion aims to put first electrons on the grid by 2028

By Everett Sloane