Rivian’s R2 beat its own climate goals four years early
Rivian says the R2 halved the lifetime carbon footprint of the R1 four years ahead of schedule.
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Noble Carbon will show how it’s making EV charger installs painless at TechCrunch Disrupt | TechCrunch
Noble Carbon has developed a smart circuit breaker that allows households to electrify without the pain of a main panel upgrade.
Meet Sanat Pandit, the Ann Arbor sixth-grader whose $300 firefighting drone extinguished 18 of 20 outdoor test fires and earned him a national STEM final spot
Experiments & Discoveries News: A sixth-grader from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has developed a low-cost firefighting drone designed to help tackle one of the most dangerous challenges face.
Exclusive: Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy bets these 21 startups will shape energy’s future | TechCrunch
To the investors at Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy, the coming wave of electrification will make data center energy demands look quaint by comparison. Here's how they're preparing.
Therabody is giving its smallest massager an iMac-inspired upgrade.
The new Theragun Mini Y2K Collection exposes the Theragun Mini 3’s tech through a new translucent shell with color options inspired by the original iMac G3. The colors launching today through Therabody’s online store for $229.99 each include blue raspberry, grape blast, orange crush, strawberry splash, and green apple. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/theragun1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/theragun2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]
Climate scientists fired by Trump step in to fill U.S. report gap
More than a year after the Trump administration dismissed hundreds of scientists working on the National Climate Assessment, clouding the landmark publication’s future, many of those researchers and others released Tuesday the first installment of a special collection of climate change findings designed to fill the perceived gap left behind.
A Florida man lost his left arm after a 35-foot fall at 16; 17 years later, he is the first to take home a thought-controlled bionic arm that can restore his sense of touch
Experiments & Discoveries News: After losing his arm 17 years ago, Alexander Avi Davidson, 33, can finally feel the sense of touch again. Thanks to a revolutionary bionic arm develop.
Exclusive: Meta deal will help plastics recycling startup MacroCycle build its first factory | TechCrunch
Meta is giving plastic recycling a boost in a new deal with startup MacroCycle, which is building its first commercial plant.
A federal judge refused to block a Texas land swap giving SpaceX more than 700 wildlife-refuge acres; the company would surrender 683 acres as opponents continue their legal challenge
Tech News News: A federal judge has refused to block a land swap that would give SpaceX more than 700 acres of a wildlife refuge in Texas. The decision allows the Tru.
In 1957, a South American moth was released in the Caribbean to control prickly pear; by 1989 it had reached Florida and was attacking native and endangered cacti
Wildlife & Biodiversity News: A pest once deliberately moved around the world to solve an agricultural problem has become a problem of its own. According to a report by the USDA’s .
Costa Rica tested three ways to restore tropical forests; 20 years later, planted plots held 6.5 times more biomass than forests left to recover naturally
Nature & Environment News: A forest can return without being planted, but the pace and character of that recovery can depend heavily on what happens at the beginning. In souther.
India’s space sovereignty: From building missions to building depth - milestones, gaps & what’s next
Science News: For decades, the central question was whether India could design, build and launch increasingly complex spacecraft on its own. That question has been .
Einstein’s ‘spooky action’ survives one of the most extreme tests yet: CERN finds strong evidence that heavy Z bosons can become quantum-entangled
Experiments & Discoveries News: Einstein famously found quantum mechanics so strange that he once referred to quantum entanglement as “spooky action at a distance”. More than a centu.
Inundaron un bosque para crear un embalse hidroeléctrico: provocaron la contaminación por mercurio de los peces y los convirtieron en incomestibles
La pesca tradicional se convirtió en imposible debido al estado de los seres vivos de este hábitat
China coloca 27 espejos hacia la ladera helada de una montaña para acelerar la construcción de la presa más alta del mundo
Los heliostatos ayudan a mantener el calor del núcleo de arcilla de la presa
Fat Bear Week is here: Meet Backpack, Bucky and other chunky contenders
Sixteen bears are facing off in Fat Bear Week 2026, the highly anticipated tournament among the chunkiest bears at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in...
Casal renova votos em cachoeira no Amapá após união na Fortaleza | G1
Há pouco mais de um ano, o casal viralizou ao se casar em um dos pontos turísticos mais visitados de Macapá. Fotógrafos Débora e Alexandre Alves destacam que o relacionamento sempre foi inspirado pela conexão com a natureza.
Amazon wants to help the Colorado River, but we still don’t know how much water the company uses
Amazon is spending $20 million on water conservation projects along the Colorado River, but still doesn’t disclose its total water use.