2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1391+ words) A new report from the nonprofit Reflective lays out the experiments needed to better understand our ability to dim the sun. A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (506+ words) Could new fertilizers help combat high prices? If you’ve had to fill up your vehicle’s gas tank or buy a plane ticket lately, you’ve probably felt the effects of rising fossil-fuel prices. But farmers buying fertilizer for their crops are…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (611+ words) Plus: Republicans fear anger over data centers will cost them in elections. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Sometime in the late…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (329+ words) The global gold rush for underground stores of hydrogen fuel continues. But researchers are still sorting out how much of the stuff there is. Decades later, Sherwood Lollar, who is a geochemist at the University of Toronto, revisited the team’s…...

1+ mon, 54+ min ago   (966+ words) El Niño? Climate change? All of the above? This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere. June and July marked the hottest two-month stretch in Europe since record-keeping began. The contiguous US endured its hottest month…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (361+ words) Prediction markets and a move toward AI forecasting are starting to put the accuracy of weather predictions at risk. Here’s what we can do to safeguard them. Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review | Adobe Stock, Envato Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (703+ words) Achieving criticality is just the first step toward power for the grid. I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (479+ words) Plus: The Trump administration has lifted restrictions on OpenAI's GPT 5.6. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1755+ words) At least in California, which has become a test bed for emerging means of cleaning up livestock emissions. Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips on his family’s land…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (503+ words) Let's mooooo-ve on from climate shell games Years ago, the state set up a system that pays cattle farmers across the country to turn the methane emitted from cattle manure into natural gas, encouraging the dairy sector to produce a…...