The Luniter Observatory

The Shallow End

Undersea cables carry the digital economy through shallow water, where an accident and an attack can look alike.

Oct 26, 2026

To Push a Moon

How DART changed an asteroid moon’s orbit, and what Hera will learn when it gets there.

Oct 19, 2026

The Dry Lab

Eli Lilly's new supercomputer is built to help scientists choose which molecules to make and test.

Oct 12, 2026

The Factory Is Alive

Living cells make medicines, food ingredients and fuel. Getting the product back out is an industry of its own.

Oct 5, 2026

Turn It Back On

Microsoft and Google are helping reopen old nuclear plants, but the data-center boom needs far more electricity than these restarts can supply.

Sep 28, 2026

Eyes Above the Sky

How satellites turn light into useful information about Earth, and what that information is worth.

Sep 21, 2026

The China Playbook

Washington is buying into industries it has decided America needs. China named many of the same industries in a national plan ten years earlier.

Sep 14, 2026

Arizona's Thirsty Alfalfa

Alfalfa takes more of the Colorado River than every other crop combined, and it can survive two months of summer without water. That quirk is how the river is getting some of its water back.

Sep 7, 2026

The Overdrawn River

Lake Mead is setting a new all-time low almost every day. A century-old promise of more water than exists has finally come due.

Aug 31, 2026

Anatomy of a Robot

America is racing to build the robot worker. Almost every part comes from somewhere else, except the one that thinks.

Aug 24, 2026