Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. Over the past month, friends, family, and acquaintances have ...

Late Pleistocene, Early Holocene, Middle Holocene, and Late Holocene diagnostic and probable prehistoric Native American dice (images courtesy Robert J. Madden) New research published in the journal ...

Cultures around the world have been playing games of chance for millennia. Previously, historians had discovered examples of dice dating back some 5,500 years. But new research may push back that ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 ...

When electricity demand is set to surge—say, from a new power-hungry data center—the default response from a utility is often to build a new (and expensive) power plant and other infrastructure. A new ...

Growing global adoption of electric vehicles helped avoid the consumption of 2.3 million barrels of oil per day last year, according to a modeled scenario from BloombergNEF. Those fossil fuel savings ...

Electric vehicles are known for efficiency, but some go further than others. Using EPA MPGe ratings, we ranked the most energy-efficient EVs on sale today. Electric vehicles top current fuel ...

View post: This is Your First Official Look at the 2027 Audi Q9 VW begins production of ID.Unyx 08, its first EV based on Xpeng’s 800-volt platform. Features include advanced ADAS, OTA updates, and a ...

When playing Magic: The Gathering, all you need to get started is a deck of cards, maybe some sleeves to keep them pristine, and a playmat to make picking them up off the table much easier. But many ...

I love games where you make increasingly bigger numbers. Games like Balatro, Luck Be a Landlord, and Nubby’s Number Factory have consumed immense amounts of my time. While many people this month have ...