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A geothermal startup said Thursday that it has hit gold in Nevada—metaphorically speaking. Zanskar, which uses AI to find hidden…
Just a tiny amount of fentanyl, the equivalent of a few grains of sand, is enough to stop a person’s…
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a…
A cold supermoon is on its way. On December 4, Earth’s satellite will delight us with one of the last…
In a statement, Dan Diorio, the vice president of state policy for the Data Center Coalition, a leading industry group,…
The US space agency ended months of speculation about the next flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, confirming that the vehicle…
Over 1,000 Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI…
I was settling into one of those airport activity tables with high stools and electric outlets at my flight’s gate,…
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets,…
Startup Valar Atomics said on Monday that it achieved criticality—an essential nuclear milestone—with the help of one of the country’s…