Articles tagged "united states"

And most think they still won't in the year 2030. Except, you know, robots already do all of those things.

At least not as much as being born Swiss, Australian, or even Taiwanese.

So who's it going to be? Who's going to kick off the armed conflict over those precious oil and gas reserves in the Arctic? Russia? Nah, they're a bunch of crotchety has-beens. Norway? Denmark? Nope—too Scandinavian, too neutral, too peaceful. Ca…

In September, not a single new fossil fueled power plant was brought online. No coal, no natural gas. No new carbon-spewers. Instead, we saw five brand new wind farms bring 300 megawatts of capacity online, and 18 new solar installations that clocked…

Last week, Leon Panetta stoked some fears and drew bloggy jeers when he warned of an incoming "cyber Pearl Harbor." The gloomy song and dance, which we've heard played out so many a time now, made a chorus of hackers' alleged ability to disrupt trans…

So, yeah, it was paid for with a big chunk of that ubiquitous, democracy-eroding Super PAC cash that's sloshing around, but this pro-Obama ad starring Samuel Jackson at least provides a strong exception to our rule: it's not "boring as hell":http://m…

A rational person would assume that the fact that the ice covering one of the Earth's two poles has melted away to the lowest levels ever recorded — and is slated to continue shrinking at a rapid clip, thanks to global climate change — would be bigge…

Is bottled beer nuclear bombproof? The United States government conducted a couple tests in the 1950s to find out—it exploded nuclear bombs with "packaged commercial beverages" deposited at varying distances from the blast center to see if beer and s…

So, thanks to record-breaking temperatures, more than half the nation's counties are in a declared state of emergency—drought and heat waves, as you're likely aware, have been the norm this summer. The hot-as-hell temps are wreaking all sorts of havo…