Tech
Elon Musk’s rockets aren’t enough anymore: SpaceX is building a 13-kilometer pipeline in Texas to fuel Starbase
A New Mexico community built 100 homes into the earth with no power bills or water lines, and the pool they dug became something none expected
India’s new rocket engine isn’t just an upgrade: it just hit 88% thrust and could transform heavy-lift launches
Chinese artificial intelligence cracked a control problem that has blocked nuclear fusion for decades, and the breakthrough did not come from physicists
A Canadian fusion machine just tripled its plasma temperature to 8.4 million°C by crushing it, and the method is not what reactors usually use
Two Minnesota solar farms swapped the gravel under their panels for wildflowers, and five years later the native bees had multiplied twentyfold
A Japanese firm wants to wrap the Moon’s equator in an 11,000-kilometer solar belt, and how it would beam that power to Earth is unlike anything today
Chinese scientists built a gel electrolyte for solid-state batteries that solves the one flaw holding electric cars back
A penguin colony forced an Antarctic wind farm to move 1.2 miles, and today thousands of breeding pairs nest where the turbines once stood
A former NASA engineer built drones that ‘plant’ 40 million trees a year across the Amazon and California
A Finn built a solar boat in his shed and sailed it 5,000 km from Finland to Ibiza with zero refueling
India just finished its first 8-lane tunnel that lets cars drive beneath a forest without disturbing the tigers above
India is building a road 60 feet beneath Bengaluru to bury one of the world’s worst traffic jams underground
The world’s most powerful test reactor in Idaho just pulled out its first new fuel samples, and now the real test begins
The Boring Company is digging a tunnel loop under Nashville, and the U.S. transportation secretary went down to see it
The longest bridge in the United States stretches so far over water that for miles you can’t see land
The world’s largest cargo plane just touched down in Florida, and what it came to pick up explains the trip
From interplanetary spaceships to reactors on the Moon, the future of space travel is quietly turning nuclear, and engineers explain why







