Rick Perry is an expert when it comes to American energy policy – so when he speaks, we listen... The former governor of Texas, Rick oversaw booms in both fossil fuels and renewables during his terms. He also served as Secretary of Energy during President Donald Trump's first term in the White House. Seven months […]

In the early 2000s, U.S. doctors only did a few hundred robotic procedures each year... That number is well beyond 1 million today – and still climbing.

Last month, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility ("NIF") more than doubled the yield of its previous, record-setting fusion experiment. NIF – the world's first facility to achieve a net gain fusion reaction – recently produced 8.6 megajoules ("MJ") of energy, blowing past its 2022 output of 3.15 MJ. Both experiments […]

The total budget was estimated to be as high as $540 million. The story centered on a wandering outlaw in the old American West, dodging run-ins with bounty hunters while looking for the next big score. The marketing team spared no expense... Billboards were plastered on city buses, subways, and even on the big screens […]

At 1 a.m. on a chilly December morning in 2022, a team of scientists in California crowded around a lab console as the readouts spiked... For a fleeting moment, they had created a miniature star on Earth. In that experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility, 192 giant lasers blasted a tiny pellet […]

A van full of FBI agents pulled up and surrounded 12-year-old Jackson Oswalt's house... They weren't there to arrest him though... They were looking for his science project. The boy from Memphis, Tennessee had convinced his parents to let him build the project after seeing an article about an amateur nuclear physicist on the Internet. […]

Every generation had its vision of the future. For Baby Boomers, it was The Jetsons – with George zipping off to work in the family flying car. Gen X grew up with Back to the Future, where hoverboards and airborne DeLoreans ruled the skies. Millennials who loved The Fifth Element saw traffic jams high above […]

Shares of Disney (DIS) jumped 11% following a strong earnings release for its second fiscal quarter. For a stock that saw its share price decline by as much as 60% from its 2021 highs, it was welcome news for shareholders. Prior to its earnings release, Disney was only trading a few dollars off its five-year […]

Shares of Vertiv (VRT) are up around 55% over the past month, well outpacing the Nasdaq Composite Index and grabbing investors' attention. But after such a monster run higher, is this data-center-infrastructure company still a buy at today's levels? Let's dig in to see what Vertiv does, why the stock is soaring, and what an […]

How much money can you make selling things folks can't get enough of? It turns out, a lot. Starbucks (SBUX) is a great example. The coffee chain has more than 40,000 locations across the world. In its two largest markets – the U.S. and China – Starbucks has 17,000 and 7,600 locations, respectively. That has […]