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Renewable energy has supplied 100 percent of California's energy demand for between 15 minutes and six hours in 30 of the last 38 days—a historic first for the Golden State.Wind, solar, and hydro energy is now exceeding demand across the state, producing more energy than Californians require on an almost daily basis...

McDonald's restaurants across Australia have been forced to temporarily close, and other branches around the world have reported a widespread technological issue which means customers cannot pay for food.Internal systems in Australian restaurants have been offline since about 3:10 p.m. local time, according to a rep...

"Opposites charges attract; like charges repel" is a long-held fundamental principle of physics that you might have heard at school, but your teacher may have been wrong.Researchers from the University of Oxford's chemistry department found that like-charged particles submerged in solutions were able to attract each...

SpaceX's Starlink user terminals are being openly sold in Russia, though CEO Elon Musk has denied knowledge of any such sales in the country.The terminals, which provide users with high-speed internet via the Starlink satellite constellation, are available on the Russian website of a reseller claiming to be an "offi...

SpaceX's Starlink user terminals are being openly sold in Russia, though CEO Elon Musk has denied knowledge of any such sales in the country.The terminals, which provide users with high-speed internet via the Starlink satellite constellation, are available on the Russian website of a reseller claiming to be an "offi...

Russia's Roscosmos space agency plans to sell off assets worth more than 11.4 billion rubles ($124 million) as sanctions imposed by the West over President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine continue to take a toll, local media has reported.A representative of the company told Russian news outlet RBC that the decision ...

After two decades online, I'm perplexed. It's not that I haven't had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I've met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I'm uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedi...

Two-thirds of Americans believe that current housing prices are making the dream of home ownership beyond the reach of the middle class, a new poll for Newsweek showed, a signal that what experts say is a key builder of wealth is too expensive to afford.Asked if the median sales price of nearly $388,000, per the Nat...

For decades, car ownership has been a trademark of the American lifestyle, with vehicles becoming symbols of freedom, independence and even rebellion, as well as a necessity. But in 2024, the country's legendary love story with the automobile appears to have reached a crucial point of potential no return, as cars ha...