Magic was in the air the morning that Anthony Lucas's drilling crew was working a rotary rig four miles south of Beaumont, Texas. It may not have felt special at the time. After all, his team had...
Last month, two of the world's largest holders of gold did the exact opposite thing. First, we saw the People's Bank of China take delivery of over 7 tonnes of gold bullion. For the record, that was...
Wall Street called him crazy for betting on U.S. LNG, but the Iran war just made him an energy prophet.
While everyone watches the precarious state of energy prices in the wake of the Third Gulf War, a different energy crisis snuck up the back stairs of the American grid...
Of all the places on Earth that we would expect to embrace a next-gen technology to solve an energy crisis, the last area we’d look at is a quiet industrial estate near Redruth in Cornwall,...
If you were a kid running around north-central Kentucky in 1937, you would’ve beheld quite a sight. One morning, you would’ve stopped in awe as 50 armored train cars rolled by, carrying...
Not long ago, a patient showed up at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston with a pulmonary embolism. Doctors used the standard protocol to begin treating the patient. All was great at...
Sundays are for peace. Mondays are for war. It's been the same pattern for weeks now. Oil markets close Friday afternoon. Then like clockwork, the headlines shift.
The Defense Production Act of 1950 was passed to give the president emergency powers over industrial production during the Korean War. And for 76 years, it's been invoked for everything from...
Last week, an independent researcher named Giancarlo Lelli sat down at his computer, accessed publicly available quantum hardware through the cloud, and did something that shouldn't be possible...
Pop the champagne bottles, because the celebrations are in full swing. I’m honestly surprised there weren’t fireworks going off in the Tokyo Bay as cheers erupted and media headlines focused on...
In 1252, the Italian city-state of Florence minted the fiorino d'oro — the florin — containing 3.5 grams of pure gold. This coin became the most trusted currency in medieval Europe for 300...