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September 06, 2025

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Roof damage at Tropicana Field after Hurricane Milton made landfall, in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Thursday. Almost 3 million people were without power Thursday after Milton made landfall and crossed the state.

WORLD

Oct 11, 2024

Hurricane Milton’s surprise was the damage unleashed by powerful winds

Much of the worst damage from the hurricane, like the shredded roof of the Tropicana Field sports stadium, came from wind rather than water.

An electric vehicle (EV) at an Electrify America charging station in Atlanta

BUSINESS / Tech

Oct 7, 2024

The future of EV charging looks a lot like an airport lounge

The convenience of nicer charger stations could entice would-be electric vehicle drivers to take the plunge and buy one,

A Plug Power hydrogen plant in Woodbine, Georgia

ENVIRONMENT / Energy

Aug 14, 2024

Why almost nobody is buying green hydrogen

Many of the projects now touted with great fanfare by countries vying to become 'the Saudi Arabia of hydrogen' will likely never get built.

It’s hard to talk about space-based solar — that is, transmitting the energy — without conjuring images of a death ray. But the team at the California Institute of Technology says the power density of the beam would be comparable to the power density of sunlight.

ENVIRONMENT / Earth science

Oct 27, 2023

Beam solar energy from space? These scientists say yes

The hurdles that have grounded space-based solar in the past aren’t merely technical, they’re also financial.

The National Ignition Facility’s preamplifier module increases laser energy as it travels to the Target Chamber in an undated photograph at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory federal research facility in Livermore, California.

WORLD / Science & Health

Aug 7, 2023

U.S. lab behind fusion breakthrough reaches ignition again

Being able to reproduce the breakthrough may bring the world one step closer to using fusion, which powers the stars, as a source of clean energy.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.

From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past

By Alex K.T. Martin

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