Environment
AI companies look to the ocean as a place to put more data centers
The artificial intelligence boom is driving unprecedented demand for data centers, raising concerns about their growing energy consumption, water use and carbon footprint. These challenges are making companies look beyond traditional land-based data centers.Some...
Life
This $45 JBL Speaker Is Small Enough for a Bag and Tough Enough for the Beach
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication.The JBL Go 5 is down to $44.95 from $54.95 on Amazon, and price trackers show that this is...
Space
What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 1: The Atmospheric Fingerprint
In 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, then six billion kilometers from Earth and destined to become humanity's most far-flung emissary, turned around and took a picture of home. The resulting image...
Science
A summer of extremes: Weathering a hotter world
In Washington, D.C., this July, America's 250th birthday began with an evacuation. An incoming summer storm forced crowds gathered on the National Mall for fireworks out of the park and indoors. Hours later, the show...
Life
Gen Z women are teaching their mums about cycle syncing and periods
Iqra Wasim from Fishponds in Bristol has struggled with PMOS symptoms such as painful acne since the age of 11.PMOS affects about one in eight women. It is a major cause of female infertility and symptoms can include irregular...
Space
On this day in space! Aug. 15, 1977: Mysterious ‘Wow!’ Signal boosts search for E.T.
On Aug. 15, 1977, astronomers using Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope detected the famous "Wow!" signal, which to this day is one of the strongest pieces of evidence that we are not alone in the universe.Astronomer Jerry...
Life
Microsoft Is Combining Its Two ‘Copilot’ Apps (and Ditching These Three Features)
Microsoft Copilot is a little messy. Unlike ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, the company's AI service isn't one universal product. Instead, there's "Copilot," the...
Environment
Professor Emeritus Chiang Chung Mei, pioneering scholar of ocean wave dynamics and fluid mechanics, dies at 91
Chiang Chung "C.C." Mei, professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), a renowned hydrodynamicist whose work shaped the field’s understanding of ocean waves and their interactions with coastal and offshore structures, passed away peacefully at...
Science
NASA Competition Invites Students to Help Imagine a Future Enabled by Lunar Technologies
NASA is asking U.S.-based collegiate teams to submit bold, original concepts to the 2027 edition of a student challenge focused on aerospace innovation that could help the agency envision a future on the Moon shaped by new technology.
The latest NASA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts...
Life
All the Health and Fitness Products You Didn’t Realize You Could Buy With HSA Funds
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Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson is appealing – here’s what you need to know
Patterson won't be attending the appeal in person. She's chosen to appear via video link from Dame Phyllis Frost...