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Renewable energy storage is a recurring topic on this page. We have already covered large-scale projects such as the mega-batteries at Cunningham Park in Texas, designed to store vast amounts of electricity. These solutions offer many benefits, the most important…

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China is going full Jules Verne as it prepares to go where no drill has gone before. As part of its Deep Ocean Drilling Program, the special-built Meng Xiang (梦想号, “Dream”) drill ship is gearing up for a multi-year effort…

Each year, global cement production releases more than two and a half billion tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere. This immense carbon footprint makes concrete one of the biggest hurdles in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Now, researchers at…

Bites (noun): more meaty news to sink your teeth into. Barks (noun): peripheral noise worth your attention. Ben Herbert’s Boston Terrier, Brooklyn. Want to have your doggie(s) featured in one of our future Barks & Bites Columns?  Send your dogs…

Ultra-deep tech startup Nirvanic put on a fairly humble-looking robotics demo at Jeff Bezos’s private MARS 2025 conference – but it may go down as a landmark moment both in AI robotics, and in our understanding of consciousness itself. We’re…

Nature has long served as a blueprint for scientific and technological progress—a field known as biomimetics or biomimicry. A recent breakthrough from Finland exemplifies this approach: a team of researchers has devised a method to replicate the intricate microarchitecture of…

Bite (noun): more meaty news to sink your teeth into. Bark (noun): peripheral noise worth your attention. Andrew Riley’s Bernese Mountain Dogs TEDDY (Left) and SOPHIE (Right) This week in Other Barks & Bites: three bills with bipartisan backing that…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Intuit — the financial software giant behind products like TurboTax and QuickBooks — is making significant strides using generative AI to…

Anyone looking for an alternative to Instagram might have a suitable candidate in Flashes, a recently launched app built on Bluesky that seems to get all the important basics right. Flashes technically launched on the App Store on February 24,…