A new generation of self-healing tools could make the U.S.'s aging power grid far more resilient against modern threats.

Historian Eric Cline argues the Bronze Age collapse wasn't the work of one invading force or one bad harvest, but something far harder to stop: An overly interdependent system that had no way to absorb multiple shocks at once.

There are plenty of engineering obstacles, and those can be overcome. But you cannot change the laws of physics, and those matter too.

"The process of systematizing, correcting errors, finding approximations, and making them work as civil systems that was what really drove me to start looking at human calculation and what was the foundation that it laid for the modern computer age."

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And can we run the grid of the future without AI?

NASA's minivan-sized drone is scheduled to search for signs of life on Titan in 2034.

Lost in a building or underwater? A new muon-based navigation system could be your guide.

This network physicist is mapping the world's most significant data to create the most beautiful visualizations of information we have ever seen.

Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.

With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.

Designed for a 90-day mission each, dust killed the overachieving Spirit and threatens to now kill Opportunity. But it didn’t have to be this way. In 2004, NASA launched two exploration […]