A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often ...
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Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy
“[The clutch] is like 1950s technology—it’s really boring,” Westerman said (“boring,” for grid operators, is the highest form of praise). ...
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How Verge readers, and writers, are managing our kids’ screen time
This week the Pew Research Center published a study about how parents managed screen time for their kids 12 and ...
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Taking These 50 Objects Out of Orbit Would Cut Danger From Space Junk in Half
“In their rush to move quickly, they are adding to the long-term collision hazard,” McKnight said. The deputy head of ...
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The Mystery of How Quasicrystals Form
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals ...
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Why US Power Bills Are Surging
Now, electricity prices are surging in addition to all of the uncorked demand from the Covid-19 pandemic, when the global ...
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Wins Contract to Take NASA Rover to the Moon
NASA’s VIPER lunar rover could be delivered to the moon by Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company. The US space ...
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US government takes equity stake in one of the world’s largest lithium mines
Donald Trump’s administration is taking a 5 percent equity ownership of mining company Lithium Americas, on top of another 5 ...
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All hail the new Fat Bear Champion
The votes are in, and the winner of Fat Bear Week 2025 is the indomitable Bear 32, also known as ...
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Microplastics Could Be Weakening Your Bones, Research Suggests
Microplastics could be a factor in driving up cases of osteoporosis worldwide, according to recently published research. The study reveals ...
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