Energy
U.S. crude oil production hit a record 13.6 million barrels per day in 2025, EIA confirms
The United States set a new global record for crude oil output in 2025, extending its position at the top of the…
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Hugo Rojas is the editor of GCN. With a Master of Science in Engineering, he specializes in technology, data, and science, and brings a human-centered perspective informed by psychology.
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Society
An octopus in a tank goes still, closes its eyes, and flashes vivid colors across its skin, and what researchers confirmed is happening inside its brain at that exact moment challenges what scientists believed about the origins of dreaming
You have almost certainly watched one at an aquarium and had no idea what was actually going on. The octopus sitting motionless…
Society
Lab mice that had never once encountered an unconscious companion performed what looked like lifesaving first aid on fallen cage-mates, and the instinct researchers found behind it had never previously been reported in laboratory animals
There is an animal living in the walls of almost every building in America, and most people spend considerable energy trying to…
Automotive
BMW recalls 29,119 plug-in hybrid sedans over starter relay that may corrode and cause a fire
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has logged a recall covering 29,119 BMW plug-in hybrid sedans after the automaker determined that the…
Energy
Nearly 47% of American homes heat with natural gas and most owners assume a gas furnace keeps running when the grid goes dark, but a single electric component buried inside every modern unit cuts the heat in a winter outage
The gas bill arrives every January, the flame lights up on cue, and the whole house warms in minutes. For tens of…
Energy
A refrigerant with a warming potential 2,088 times that of carbon dioxide was sealed inside tens of millions of home air conditioners, and the long-planned federal phasedown that finally took effect is now landing on ordinary homeowners
Somewhere in your neighborhood, almost certainly on the side of a house or tucked behind a shrub, sits a white metal box…
Technology
Google opens applications for November Gemini Startup Forum in Sunnyvale with August 28 deadline
Google for Startups has opened applications for the next edition of its Gemini Startup Forum, a two-day in-person gathering for early-stage AI…
Automotive
A $7 million federal project has torn up nearly a mile of hardened shoreline along a Michigan waterfront, and the surprising creature now returning to the estate of an automotive dynasty is one almost nobody expected to find there
Somewhere along the waterfront of a grand 1920s estate in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, heavy machinery spent months ripping out concrete slabs…
Automotive
A $5 billion EV factory broke ground on nearly 2,000 acres of Georgia countryside in September 2025, and the living thing the builders were required to protect before a single wall could rise
About 45 miles east of Atlanta, along the Interstate 20 corridor, a wide stretch of Georgia countryside has been quietly transforming. It…
Society
Pew study maps Americans into four public-life groups, with about six in ten falling into lower-engagement categories
Most Americans fall into one of two lower-engagement camps when it comes to participating in public life, according to a new study…
Technology
A backyard bee with roughly 1 million neurons can recognize a human face using almost no computing power at all, and what scientists built to prove it is now drawing serious attention from AI engineers
Every summer, bees drift through American backyards by the millions, landing on flowers, hovering, tilting, and darting away. Most people barely register…
Energy
EIA publishes tank-bottoms explainer as Cushing crude inventories fall below 20 million barrels
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has published an explainer on crude oil stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma storage hub, noting that…