Power grids reach tipping point as 100f weather, US data center boom stress aging networks

At least one person has died in flooding across central Texas – the same area that saw more than 130 deaths in flash floods last summer. “Large and deadly” flooding from the Guadalupe River is expected to ravage the region, following days of torrential rain, the National Weather Service (NWS) in San Antonio reported. Last…

Archaeologists in El Salvador have uncovered the unusual burial of a face-down human skeleton that was interred along with a ceramic vessel shaped like a sea turtle nearly 3,000 years ago. The burial may be from a pre-Maya civilization that practiced human sacrifice. According to a translated statement from El Salvador’s Ministry of Culture, the…

Every second, the brain is flooded with sights, sounds, smells, and signals from inside the body. Yet only a fraction of this information reaches our conscious awareness, thanks to neural systems that filter out what is familiar or unimportant. This filtering happens constantly in everyday life. After a while, we may stop noticing the hum…

Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a detached test building on a separate portion of the 829-acre site on May 15, 2026. The liquid hydrogen tank will form part of the core stage for…

Released in 1973 and coming out this week in a new 4K UHD transfer on Blu-ray, Soylent Green is set in the distant (!) year of 2022, in a polluted, congested New York City bursting with 40 million inhabitants as the world teeters on the edge of ecological and societal collapse. The film stars Charlton…

Back to Article List Over billions of years, a planet will have encountered all the small bodies in its vicinity enough times to clear its orbit of them. Pluto famously was demoted to dwarf planet because, with its location in the Kuiper Belt, it has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit — one of…