When identical charges repel each other but are confined to the surface of a sphere, they seek the arrangement with the lowest possible energy. The idea is simple, but the problem gets harder to solve ...

It was the morning of July 22 in Ashburn, Virginia — the heart of data center alley — when more than three gigawatts of data center load suddenly disconnected from the grid. Voltage disturbances ...

Warm October weather may be welcome news for New Jersey residents trying to squeeze a few more days out of summer clothes, but the unusual temperatures are creating complications for the regional ...

Unusually warm October weather is putting additional pressure on the regional power grid that serves New Jersey, prompting grid management company PJM Interconnection to extend emergency alerts ...

Since you last thought about math, the people who think about math every day have been freaking out. A month ago, when OpenAI announced that one of its powerful internal models had cracked a ...

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EPB launched a $22-million quantum computer Friday morning, making Chattanooga’s municipal utility the first company in the world to combine commercial quantum computing and quantum networking in one ...

For most of the last century, electricity and heat have been planned and regulated as two separate systems, a design choice that made sense when both were produced by burning fuel on demand. However, ...

Once a specific problem is solved, leaders often stop looking for the deeper conflict driving it. They treat evidence that one failure point has been fixed as evidence that the underlying problem has ...

The mathematics community is still in shock. On September 8, 2026, OpenAI announced that an artificial intelligence model may have solved one of the most significant problems in the field, the ...

The Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, has puzzled mathematicians for nearly two centuries. It asks whether the equations governing fluid ...

The Navier-Stokes problem concerns equations of fluid motion, illustrated here as dye moving in liquid. Kterletska via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0 The Navier-Stokes problem, a famous theoretical ...