Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning missions to far-off moons and planets.

Hydrostor, a leader in compressed-air energy storage, aims to break ground on a 200-MW plant in New South Wales by the end of this year. It wants to follow that with a 500-MW facility in California.

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With little incentive for US farmers to test their cattle, and many undocumented laborers on dairy farms, the full scale of the outbreak is unclear.

Scientists are forecasting 11 North Atlantic hurricanes this year, five of them being major. Here’s what’s turning the storms into increasingly dangerous behemoths.

China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement.