Biden uses an executive order to open federal sites for AI
panumas nikhomkhai / Pexels President Biden signed an executive order Tuesday designed to ensure that the AI industry will have plenty of compute and electrical power in the coming years…
Shark Eggs May Simply Stop Hatching Under Climate Change
Climate change may be coming for some sharks, new research suggests. The study found that eggs belonging to the small-spotted catshark are substantially less likely to survive under the worst…
Amazon Delivery Van Ignites in Fiery Explosion During Houston’s Summer Heat
A drone operator in Houston captured video of an electric Amazon delivery van at a fulfillment center appearing to explode while firefighters worked to put out the blaze on Monday.…
Not Good: Hurricane Beryl Is the Earliest Category 5 Storm in Recorded History
Hurricane Beryl was upgraded to a Category 5 storm earlier today, making it the earliest storm to hit the heavy-hitting benchmark on record. The storm’s winds peaked at a staggering…
Here’s How the Plastic Industry Thinks We Can Solve the Waste Crisis
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Suggested Reading Coastal Animals Are Thriving on Plastic Pollution Out in the Pacific Ocean | Extreme…
Huge, Faltering Fusion Reactor Project Finally Completes Its Magnet System
It took 20 years, but the design and delivery of the International Fusion Energy Project’s massive toroidal magnets is complete. The 19 coils are now in Southern France, according to…
NASA Probe Spies Plumes Above Jupiter Moon’s Lava Lakes
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Andrea Luck (CC BY) It’s not a big moon relative to some of its neighbors, but Jupiter’s Io is exceedingly active, with volcanoes by the…
The Latest Threat to the Ozone Layer: Elon’s Starlink Satellite Megaconstellation
Thousands of satellites are currently parked in low Earth orbit, with some that will eventually become defunct and fall back towards our planet’s atmosphere. As they reenter the atmosphere, satellites…
ISS Astronauts Forced to Take Shelter After Russian Satellite Mysteriously Disintegrates
Fragments from a defunct Russian satellite have formed a large cloud of debris in low Earth orbit, posing a potential threat to the International Space Station (ISS) and with the…
Scientists Inject Radioactive Material Into Live Rhino Horns Making Them Poisonous to Humans
Scientists in South Africa are now injecting the horns of live rhinos with non-toxic radioactive isotopes to make the horns unfit for human consumption and allow for easier tracking at…