Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

Why is the U.S. power grid operating at only half its installed capacity for most of the time, simultaneously increasing consumer electricity bills? The reason is rooted in the architecture of this energy infrastructure, the performance incentives of electric power companies, and what an upcoming breed of AI-managed data...

A comet going through the solar system seldom alters the general thinking of scientists in regard to comets. However, one interstellar object has followed through on it: 3I/ATLAS was the third object on record to have behaved as both a well-known icy object and a little-known experiment in chemistry...

“‘Roughly 82 percent of the ships under construction are behind schedule. This one number encapsulates why the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding problem is no longer simply about new ships, but whether force structure plans can survive contact with industrial reality.’” In the largest surface and submarine construction projects, the same thing...