Society
Most Americans say buying a home and finding a job are harder for young adults than for their parents
Amid reports of a tough job market and rising costs of living, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that majorities of…
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Hugo Rojas
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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Technology
A steel tube sat 117 feet under the Atlantic off Scotland’s Orkney Islands for two years running real cloud workloads, and the living creatures that claimed it as home rewired one of the biggest headaches in modern computing
Picture a steel tube about the size of a shipping container. It is painted gleaming white, and in June 2018 engineers slid…
Technology
864 servers spent two years 117 feet below the Orkney Islands, and the living creatures that colonized the steel hull surprised even the engineers who put it there
Picture a steel tube the size of a shipping container, bolted to a triangular weight on the seafloor, humming with 864 servers…
Energy
EIA explains that Cushing crude inventories may have approached operational tank bottom limits
The U.S. Energy Information Administration published a detailed explanation this week, saying that crude oil inventories at the Cushing, Oklahoma storage hub…
Society
Most people experience nostalgia several times a week without thinking much of it, and a study tracking 1,467 people found what it does to their social networks revised what psychologists long assumed about the habit
It usually happens without warning, a song comes on, you catch a certain smell, or someone mentions a name you haven't heard…
Society
Nearly half of every waking hour your mind slips somewhere else entirely, and what researchers found it doing there in 2025 rewired what scientists thought they knew about learning
You are reading this sentence. But right now, some part of your brain is already somewhere else. It may be replaying a…
Automotive
Subaru recalls 541,237 Ascent, Forester and Crosstrek SUVs over incorrect axle weight label
Subaru of America has recalled 541,237 SUVs after federal safety regulators determined that the rear-axle weight rating printed on the vehicles' certification…
Energy
A 132-megawatt wind farm planted 12 steel towers in up to 135 feet of Atlantic water off Long Island in 2024, and what scientists found living on the foundations within months caught nearly everyone off guard
Thirty-five miles off the eastern tip of Long Island, in up to 135 feet of Atlantic water, twelve steel towers stand in…
Energy
America’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm drove 12 steel monopiles into the Atlantic seabed 35 miles off Montauk Point in 2023, and what researchers found living around those legs 18 months later rewrote the rules for ocean energy
Something enormous is standing on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, about 35 miles east of Montauk Point, New York. It weighs…
Technology
Google publishes one-year review of its Waterloo Futures Lab AI prototyping program
Google partnered with the University of Waterloo to launch the Futures Lab, an eight-week program where students build artificial intelligence prototypes with…
Technology
Google brings AI Mode, virtual try-on and personalized shopping to back-to-school season
Google has published a six-point guide detailing how students can use its AI-powered shopping tools for the current back-to-school season, spotlighting features…
Automotive
Researchers trained an AI system on 12,000 images of a single common animal, and the fact about why that creature keeps defeating every car safety sensor designed to see it at night
Every autumn, millions of American drivers brace for what insurers call peak collision season. The roads feel the same. The headlights feel…