Two people in a Volkswagen Beetle died after the massive battery-powered truck struck them at a highway intersection in Nevada, not far from the factory that builds it.

Fusion’s hard problem was making more energy than you put in. The next one is turning that energy into cheap electricity. A Wisconsin startup says it has taken a first step, by lighting a few bulbs straight from its reactor. The company is Realta Fusio…
How solar mesh grids are quietly electrifying rural Haiti—connecting thousands of households despite gang violence, poverty and political crisis.
Public input identifying over 100 million trail cameras photos of Wisconsin’s animals has transformed science education and state wildlife management.

Schneider Electric is buying Cognite, a Norwegian-founded industrial AI company, for $3.1bn in cash. The French group wants software that can make factories and power grids think for themselves. Schneider Electric said on June 30, 2026 that it had agre…
The complexity of integrating AI into Commercial Real Estate operations and investments remains a significant barrier to achieving true enterprise transformation.
Nature-based solutions like enhanced rock weathering and microbial enrichment could increase tree growth and boost carbon storage, according to a new analysis.
The U.S. government is now offering companies $17.5 billion in loans to help finance costs for long-lead time items needed to build large commercial nuclear reactors.
Using seaweed to 3D-print buildings. AI companies are staring down the laws of economics. Why investors should pay attention to nature.

The unglamorous truth about the AI boom is that some of its hardest problems are plumbing. As data centres pack more GPUs into every rack and run them hotter, the fluid that keeps the chips from cooking has started, occasionally, to grow bacteria. That…