Automotive
Hyundai and SK On begin commercial EV battery production at $5 billion Georgia plant
Hyundai and SK On have started commercial EV battery production at their joint Georgia plant, a 35 GWh facility that will supply…
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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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Energy
About 113,000 sheep are now grazing 129,000 acres of solar farms across 500 sites in America, and what scientists measuring the soil underneath found after three years no one at the solar company expected
There is a strip of land in Pennsylvania, wedged between rows of solar panels, where a small flock of sheep shows up…
Energy
About 3,000 sheep moved into a 4,000-acre Texas solar farm ranked among the country’s largest, and what those wool crews are steadily working into the dirt beneath 900 megawatts of panels changes the whole arithmetic of clean land
On a stretch of flat farmland outside the small town of Buckholts in Milam County, Texas, something unexpected has settled in among…
Technology
NVIDIA donates DGX GB300 AI supercomputer to Naval Postgraduate School in first for US military
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) became the first command in the US military to receive the NVIDIA DGX GB300 artificial intelligence supercomputer…
Automotive
A $5 monthly jump caught nearly 5,400 EV owners off guard at home, and the rising cost tracked all year is now rewriting what overnight charging actually promises
The sales pitch writes itself. Buy an EV, plug it in at home every night, wake up to a full charge, and…
Society
Pew study finds 62% of Americans are civic spectators or outsiders, barely engaged in public life
Nearly two-thirds of American adults fall into the two least civically engaged groups in the country, according to a sweeping new Pew…
Technology
A $1.5 billion data center campus is spreading across more than 1.3 million square feet of Alabama ground, and the globally rare grassland reemerging behind the fence is something scientists say barely exists anymore
Something unusual is growing behind the fence of one of the most powerful computing campuses in the American South. It is not…
Energy
Strait of Hormuz disruptions drove Brent crude to $118 and sent U.S. fuel exports to record highs in Q2
Petroleum markets in the second quarter of 2026 were characterized by continued disruptions to crude oil and petroleum product flows through the…
Society
A study on minimal social interactions examined more than 60,000 people across two cultures, and what even a simple greeting does to the one number researchers use to measure a full life surprised the scientists who ran it
It lasts less than two seconds. You catch the eye of the cashier, say "thank you," and you're already reaching for your…
Society
Two-thirds of everything you do each day runs on invisible autopilot, and the $438 billion Gallup attached to collapsing workplace engagement landed like a thunderclap alongside that familiar finding
Every morning, most Americans follow the same invisible script. They reach for the same mug, take the same route, open the same…
Automotive
Ford recalls 741,195 F-150, Explorer and Expedition vehicles over transmission rollaway defect
Ford Motor Company has recalled more than 741,000 vehicles in the United States because a transmission defect could increase the risk of…
Energy
A 2,250-megawatt coal plant on 1,786 acres near Lake Powell burned up to 25,000 tons of coal a day for 45 years, and the billions of gallons it no longer pulls from the river every year is now doing something nobody put in the shutdown plan
For 45 years, three concrete smokestacks dominated the skyline above Page, Arizona, visible for miles across the Navajo Nation's red-rock plateau. They…