“Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle have announced AI capital spending plans totaling $650 billion this year, up 70% from 2025 and up 650% from 2020. This single-year spending total is larger than the individual Gross Domestic Product of 168 nations.”
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is pausing a multi-billion pound UK data centre project aimed at boosting its AI infrastructure, citing concerns about high energy costs and regulation.
Fascinating YouTube interview on The Chris Heasley Show features Joseph A. Olson PE, a Texas-registered civil engineer since 1983 and co-founder of Principia Scientific International.
In the volatile waters of the Strait of Hormuz, maritime traffic has slowed to an agonizing crawl. Roughly a fifth of global oil trade passes through this narrow passage. Nearly half of the crude headed toward Asia must cross these waters.
E-bike and e-scooter fires reached a record high last year, with 432 e-bike fires recorded across the UK in 2025, up 38% on 2024, while 147 e-scooter fires represented a 20% jump in a year.
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it would seek to remove microplastics and pharmaceuticals from drinking water as part of its effort to improve water standards. [some emphasis, links added]
The Iran – US/Israel War has created an energy crisis that is a real wake-up call for the West’s pursuit of Net Zero. We rely on the Middle East for about a quarter of the world’s oil and a tenth of its gas. Even after just a few short weeks, the war’s effects are becoming apparent.
Written by John O'Sullivan CEO Principia Scientific International
Love it or hate it, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is proving its worth in weeding out errors in science. A case in point is the recent remarkable story whereby AI has exposed an error in a widely-accepted physics theorem.
Many traditions throughout history have come to view the prenatal period and childbirth as one of the most important moments in a human’s life as it sets the stage for all that follows
A neuroscientist spent decades searching for an answer — and found something unexpected. For much of modern history, science and spirituality have often been placed on opposite sides of the same conversation.
The Shroud of Turin has been the subject of sustained scientific investigation because of the faint image it bears of a crucified man. Modern science has no explanation of how the image was possibly created.