Trump staffs science and technology panel with non-scientists
PCAST, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, is generally not a high-profile group. It tends to be noticed when things go wrong, such as when the PCAST…
Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades’ worth of…
Japan makes breakthrough in dirty diaper recycling
Earth has a big diaper problem. Families in the United States toss out over 1 trillion of the soiled garments every year, making it the third most common consumer product…
How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors
Bourbon is a multi-billion-dollar market, but the American barrel-aged whiskey also produces a lot of wasted grain at distilleries. Chemists at the University of Kentucky developed a method to transform…
Mushy bourbon sludge recycled into battery electrodes
It’s generally not a great idea to mix bourbon with high-voltage electricity. That said, chemists at the University of Kentucky discovered a potentially powerful use for one of whiskey’s most…
Houston city bus listed on Facebook Marketplace
You can find a lot of random things for sale on Facebook Marketplace: vintage collectibles, oversized teeth in a suitcase, and even a World War I shipwreck. Now bargain hunters…
Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
Roughly a year ago, Spain and Portugal went dark when the electrical grid of the entire Iberian Peninsula failed. While the grid operators did a heroic job of restarting the…
World’s Largest Dinosaur needs a new home
Anyone in the market to take ownership of the World’s Largest Dinosaur? The 86-foot-tall, 145,000-pound Tyrannosaurus rex named Tyra resides in the small town of Drumheller in the Canadian Badlands…
Study says roads bring more fires to forests; USDA wants more roads to fight fires
When the Trump administration announced plans last year to rescind a rule limiting roadbuilding and timber harvests on millions of acres of national forests and grasslands, officials called the repeal…
NASA Research Proposes Technology to Seek Earth-Like Exoplanets
2 Min Read NASA Research Proposes Technology to Seek Earth-Like Exoplanets Caltech Keck Institute of Space Studies (KISS) team during a March 2026 workshop. Credits: Kiss As NASA seeks to understand…