An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a unique new way to study the expansion history of…
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This is an excerpt from “Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire” by Rebecca Henderson. Copyright 2020 by Rebecca Henderson. Reprinted by permission of Perseus…
There is no shortage of challenges to scaling up perovskite technologies from the laboratory to commercial production. Among these is flash testing and cell characterization:…
Yale University researchers and colleagues in Hong Kong and China have developed an approach for rapidly tracking population flows that could help policymakers worldwide more…
Southern California Edison has signed seven contracts for a combined 770 megawatts of battery energy storage projects, one of the biggest single procurements of its…
Namely, an eight-and-a-half-year-old, New York-based company that sells payroll, talent management and other HR services to mid-size businesses across the U.S. via subscription software, has…
New vehicles today can produce a treasure trove of data. Without the proper tools, that data will sit undisturbed, rendering it worthless. A number of…
These are brightness variations of the Sun in comparison with the star KIC 7849521. Credit: MPS / hormesdesign.de An analysis of 369 solar-like stars shows…
Training Jukebox involved creating a dataset of more than one million songs including LyricWiki lyrical information and metadata, the research lab says. The artificial intelligence…
Jamie Goldstein Contributor Jamie is the founding partner of Pillar VC, a Boston-based seed-stage venture capital firm. He has spent the last 22 years investing…
Valve is calling it quits on macOS support for its virtual reality platform. A Valve employee posted an update to the company’s SteamVR forums noting…
The COVID-19 crisis is creating an untold amount of uncertainty through every business sector, but for cannabis startups, it’s exacerbating a critical market that was…
On April 27, the National Academy of Sciences elected 120 new members and 26 international associates, including three professors from MIT — Abhijit Banerjee, Bonnie Berger,…
Mega-solar projects topping 500 megawatts have cropped up in many regions of the U.S., but land constraints have mostly kept such behemoths out of the…
by Nicholas Rinaldi May 01, 2020 On April 30, 2020, Wood Mackenzie hosted a webinar examining the impact of the coronavirus on renewable energy finance. Wood Mackenzie’s…
Amazon is in hot water with a powerful congressional committee interested in the company’s potentially anticompetitive business practices. In a bipartisan letter sent Friday to…
The coming months are critical for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a former administrator said. FEMA, which has taken a lead role in the nation’s…
NASA on Thursday revealed it picked three U.S. companies—SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics—to perfect and produce human landing systems for its ambitious Artemis program. The first…
President Trump has tasked the Secretary of Energy with issuing rules that would ban U.S. entities from procuring foreign equipment that the administration said could…
Quarter after quarter, familiar stories have appeared. The smartphone market, once seemingly bulletproof, has suffered. The list of factors is long, and I’ve written about…