When electricity demand is set to surge—say, from a new power-hungry data center—the default response from a utility is often to build a new (and expensive) power plant and other infrastructure. A new ...

This winter’s big freeze led Long Island’s electric grid to rely on two energy sources that were once considered dinosaurs: fuel oil and the region’s oldest power plants. During the period of the ...

Quantum information science and quantum information technology have seen a virtual explosion worldwide. The explosion is all based on the observation that fundamental quantum phenomena on the ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

Michelle is a lead editor at Forbes Advisor. She has been a journalist for over 35 years, writing about insurance for consumers for the last decade. Prior to covering insurance, Michelle was a ...

A groundbreaking study published in Scientific Reports has uncovered the source of the Sun’s magnetic dynamo, shedding new light on the inner workings of our star and its dramatic solar storms. For ...