The grants were allocated through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, passed under former President Joe Biden, which created a program to build several regional direct-air capture hubs across the US.

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But now their toys can talk back, thanks to a wave of companies that are fitting children’s playthings with chatbots and voice assistants. It’s a trend that has particularly taken off in China: A ...

Lilac Solutions is pioneering a new type of lithium extraction that could double US production in two years and shake up the industry.

The Chinese startup has begun mass-producing two types of sodium-ion batteries and plans to launch a third this month.

For all the progress the world has made on renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, and electricity storage, we need a lot more innovation on every front—from discovery to deployment—before we can ...

A former OpenAI researcher who left to build an AI-for-science startup referred to Sora as an “infinite AI tiktok slop machine.”  That hasn’t stopped it from soaring to the top spot on Apple’s US App ...

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People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s ...

A few EV makers in India went belly up after the government abruptly scaled back incentives and cracked down on the misuse of subsidies. Ather survived the storm and sales are increasing.

And what distinguishes the firms that made the 2025 edition of our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch.

Moving freight produces about 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Most of that pollution (65%) comes from trucks and vans—more than cargo ships, trains, and planes combined. And the World ...