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

Watching the Winter Olympics is an adrenaline rush as athletes fly down snow-covered ski slopes, luge tracks and over the ice at breakneck speeds and with grace.

When the first Olympic Winter Games were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924, all 16 events took place outdoors. The athletes relied on natural snow for ski runs and freezing ...Read more

NASA’s test run of its Artemis II countdown ran into problems Monday at Kennedy Space Center that ultimately forced a decision to call off any chance to launch the moonbound mission this month.

“With the conclusion of the wet dress rehearsal today, we are moving off the February launch window and targeting March for the earliest possible ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The federal government’s decision to directly buy stakes in mining companies is largely without precedent in American history, and two mines with Nevada ties have been among the biggest beneficiaries.

But now, three high-ranking Democrats in Congress have questions.

“By privileging select corporations through direct ownership...Read more

A U.S. judge ruled that a wind farm being developed by Orsted A/S off New York’s Long Island can resume work halted by the federal government, the fifth such court win for an industry President Donald Trump has sought to cripple.

The Sunrise Wind project, which was losing $2.5 million a day while it sat idle, would “be irreparably harmed”...Read more

SpaceX’s stranglehold as NASA’s choice for the historic moon landing planned for the Artemis III mission later this decade was loosened last year to allow competitor Blue Origin back into the conversation. Jeff Bezos’ company is now laser-focused on the opportunity.

On Friday, the company announced it would cease launches of its space ...Read more

California quantum computing company D-Wave is moving its headquarters to Boca Raton, Florida, and opening a new research and development facility.

In an announcement last week, the Palo Alto company said its new office will be housed in the Boca Raton Innovation Campus before the end of this year. The 1.7-million-square-foot office facility, ...Read more

SAN RAMON, Calif. — An ongoing string of more than a dozen earthquakes in less than 90 minutes early Monday ended what had been some recent calm from recent weeks of shaking ground in the region, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The most violent of the 19 earthquakes measured by the U.S. Geological Survey was a magnitude 4.2 shaker ...Read more

In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gas emissions, including from vehicles and fossil fuel power plants, endanger public health and welfare. The decision, known as the endangerment finding, was based on years of evidence, and it has underpinned EPA actions on climate change ever since.

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The snow-covered slopes near Grenoble, France, have always held a special place in Olympic history.

It was there at the 1968 Olympic Games that France’s Jean-Claude Killy swept all three Alpine skiing gold medals then available, becoming, along with American figure skater Peggy Fleming, the first Winter Olympic superstar of the TV era.

Yet ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fifty years after the federal government saved the Congaree swamp from industrial scale logging, the 27,000 acre nature preserve faces a rash of other threats that have the attention of scientists and conservationists.

The swamp, protected in 1976 and elevated to national park status in 2003, is downstream from factories that...Read more

Data centers siphon huge amounts of energy to power artificial intelligence. But their environmental footprint starts to balloon even before the first server switches on due to the immense amount of carbon-intensive concrete needed to build them.

As the U.S. data center buildout surges, with construction beginning on multibillion-dollar ...Read more