Inside a cancer research laboratory on the campus of Harvard Medical School, two dozen small jars with pink plastic lids sat on a metal counter. Inside these humble-looking jars is the core of Joan Brugge’s current multiyear research project.

Brugge lifted up one of the jars and gazed at it with reverence. Each jar holds samples of breast ...Read more

New data on China’s relentless energy installations underscore warnings from Elon Musk and Jensen Huang that the nation’s world-beating power network will deliver a major advantage over the U.S. in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.

Since 2021, China has added more power capacity across all energy technologies than the U.S. has ...Read more

Will artificial intelligence put me out of a job?

That’s the lingering fear some employees in the gaming industry are contemplating as rapidly evolving technology is deployed in workplaces across the globe, including in casino environments.

On the surface, the use of data, algorithms and computational power simulating cognitive functions ...Read more

CHICAGO — As sweeping changes to the federal Clean Water Act in recent years have weakened protections for wetlands, Illinois has become the first state in the nation to officially recognize a conservation tactic known as rewilding.

The Illinois Rewilding Law, which took effect last month, empowers the Illinois Department of Natural Resources...Read more

When Apollo 17 astronauts returned from the moon in 1972, they visited NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to thank staff for their contributions to the mission, saying “we stood on the shoulders of giants as we shot for the stars.”

More than 50 years later, NASA Langley researchers are making final preparations to do it ...Read more

Environmental groups and tribal communities submitted written comments to state water regulators this week reiterating that the proposed Bay-Delta water management plan weakens water protections and could open the door to ecosystem disaster.

During a three-day hearing last week, the tribal members warned that the plan would result in “...Read more

DENVER — A 3-year-old gray wolf died last week in northwestern Colorado after an attempt by state wildlife officers to capture it during a collaring operation.

The breeding male was part of the King Mountain Pack, one of four known wolf packs in the state, according to a news release from Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The pack formed last ...Read more

Apollo Global Management’s John Zito left the audience of investors stunned.

Addressing a gathering in Toronto last fall, he said that the real threat for private capital markets wasn’t tariffs, inflation or a prolonged period of elevated interest rates. Rather, he said, “the real risk is — is software dead?”

Zito’s comments, being...Read more

My wife is quite happy for me to be the gadget hound in our family.

She’s a reluctant adopter of technology, but she’s quite happy when I introduce her to something she really loves.

Every so often she’ll stake a claim on something I’m reviewing after she sees me trying it out, which was exactly the case of my unboxing the Gyroor ...Read more

The world is looking for more clean water. Intense storms and warmer weather have worsened droughts and reduced the amount of clean water underground and in rivers and lakes on the surface.

Under pressure to provide water for drinking and irrigation, people around the globe are trying to figure out how to save, conserve and reuse ...Read more

Safe portable charging isn’t optional; it’s essential. That is exactly what you get with BMX’s new SolidSafe portable power line featuring advanced magnetic solid-state battery packs built with safety at the core.

Inside each battery is what SolidSafe calls next-generation solid-state cells, not traditional lithium-ion batteries. ...Read more

BERLIN — For many strategy fans, "The Settlers" is a true classic. One of the series' originators, Volker Wertich, has now presented his own creation with "Pioneers of Pagonia," a PC co-op game for up to four players that remains very close to "The Settlers."

At its core, "Pioneers of Pagonia" is a city-building game. Players start with a ...Read more

My family is a great resource for my column topics.

Usually, I write about an issue brought to my attention by my mom or my mother-in-law, but this week it was my sister who called with a phone problem.

We’d talked earlier in the week and she told me her phone screen looked strange: the background was black and the text was white in some ...Read more

South Carolina’s environmental agency has known for years state that oversight of rivers is so weak that industrial-scale farms can suck rivers dry, but the department has done little to protect waterways from overuse because of political pressure, the department’s former water division chief says.

Mike Marcus, who retired as director of ...Read more

A spotted gray wolf has left his California pack and trotted across Silver State lines, wildlife biologists say.

Nevada Department of Wildlife spokeswoman Ashley Zeme said the wolf is in the north end of the Carson Range near Carson City. The wolf crossed into Nevada on Monday after heading east from Truckee, California, on the north end of ...Read more

NASA’s test run of its Artemis II countdown ran into problems Monday at Kennedy Space Center, scrapping any chance of the moonbound mission launching this month.

Instead, the agency is targeting March as the earliest possible date for Artemis II, which will be the first crewed mission on the Orion spacecraft and the first time humans will fly...Read more

California wildlife officials have approved a plan to eradicate Catalina Island’s entire deer population as part of a broader effort to restore the island ecosystem, sparking fierce opposition from an unusual coalition of hunters and animal welfare advocates.

Per the plan conceived by the Catalina Island Conservancy, professional hunters will...Read more

As Winter Storm Fern swept across the United States in late January 2026, bringing ice, snow and freezing temperatures, it left more than a million people without power, mostly in the Southeast.

Scrambling to meet higher than average demand, PJM, the nonprofit company that operates the grid serving much of the mid-Atlantic U.S., asked...Read more