Fusion energy's promise of limitless power has drawn billions from venture capitalists and tech giants. Yet cracks now appear. At The Economist’s Fusion Fest in London last w...
A flatbed truck crept across CERN's sprawling campus on the France-Switzerland border. Inside a bulky cryogenic trap: 92 antiprotons. Antimatter. For the first time ever....
Wind farms face constant scrutiny over bird strikes. Developers rely on models predicting dozens of collisions yearly per turbine. Reality tells a different story. New AI-dri...
Intel just ended a multi-year drought for its mainstream laptop chips. No more recycled Raptor Lake silicon in the non-Ultra lineup. The Core Series 3 processors, codenamed W...
Middle East tensions locked oil and gas behind the Strait of Hormuz. Prices spiked. Governments scrambled. Headlines screamed coal's revival. But data tells another story. Gl...
Reinforced rubber holds up jetliners. It seals power plants. Tires grip highways at 100 mph. For nearly 100 years, this workhorse material has powered modern industry without...
Apple's design team has settled on prototypes for its long-awaited smart glasses, testing at least four distinct styles crafted from high-end acetate material. These frames aim...
Dark expanses of solar panels stretch across sun-baked sands. They soak up 95% of incoming sunlight. Hot air rises. Clouds form. Rain falls.This isn't fantasy. A new m...
Max Hodak wants to put living cells inside your skull. Not as a metaphor. Not as a far-off research concept. As an actual medical device, implanted in an actual human being,...
Oracle is done waiting for the electric grid to catch up with its appetite for power.The company has struck a deal with Bloom Energy to install solid oxide fuel cells...
A pair of earbuds that can translate a foreign street sign, identify a bird by its song, or whisper the name of a face you've forgotten. That's the pitch, anyway. And for the...
For more than ten years, one of the most persistent puzzles in fundamental physics has been an embarrassingly simple question: How big is a proton?Not the kind of ques...
COPENHAGEN — Denmark has long been the poster child for renewable energy ambition. The small Nordic nation pioneered offshore wind, built one of Europe's most progressive cli...
A coalition of more than 25 civil liberties organizations has sent a pointed letter to Meta Platforms Inc., demanding the company take concrete steps to prevent its Ray-Ban s...
Intel is preparing to do something it hasn't done convincingly in years: fight AMD for the gaming performance crown with a chip that doesn't just match its rival but potentia...