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A Reddit post making the rounds this week claims the US has experienced at least one major power outage every month of 2026 – but is it true? I dug into several outages, the extreme weather behind them, and what we can do to help keep the lights on.

"I pretty much, at that point in time, gave up on being an astronaut."

Presidential addresses to the nation are usually reserved for major issues — war, national emergencies or significant policy changes on critical topics such as healthcare or the economy. In other […]

The post Should networks air Trump’s national address live? appeared first on Poynter.

"The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light."

"The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light."

Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils.

Outside the Mars Bar from 2009  Is it "the East Village" or just "East Village"?  That's the question posed in a New York Times piece examining a small but increasingly noticeable shift in how New Yorkers talk about neighborhood names. The article centers on th...

“U.S. military strikes on Iran will intensify next week if Tehran does not cooperate in peace talks in the coming days, President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday,” CNBC reports. Said Trump: “We’re going to hit them very hard tonight. We’re going to hit them hard tomorrow night. We’re going to hit them really hard the […]

“County party chairs inundated with calls. An endless stream of Google sign-up forms and spreadsheets. And a disgraced former nominee looming over it all, haunting the party’s hopes of starting anew,” CNN reports. “The snap Democratic election to replace Graham Platner and face Republican Sen. Susan Collins this fall is off to a hectic and […]

Books are a viable canvas for Mark Wynne.

The post The Daily Heller: Tales of an Experimental Book appeared first on PRINT Magazine.

Amazing:

Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, however, managed to create a new type of pixel that can simultaneously do both. This hypercharged pixel, called a Fourier pixel, can generate and sense arbitrary light fields and tap into a pixel’s full potential for carrying information by manipulating light’s intensity, oscillation phases, and polarization. The team reported its findings in a paper published yesterday in Nature.

We are one step closer to 1984 technology:

The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment...

But with great power comes a great price.