Max Boot is a historian and biographer, best-selling author, and foreign-policy analyst. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign ...

Now that the colder months have set in, a faithful pair of boots (alongside a snug set of slippers and some thick wool socks) can help make life far more bearable. Here, I’ve rounded up the best ...

Sodium-ion batteries show promise as a cheaper, more sustainable alternative to lithium-ion but need major advancements to become competitive. Stanford’s STEER study emphasizes that innovation, not ...

Chelsea boots are utilitarian, streamlined, and sometimes even edgy. But above all, they are easy to wear, with elastic sides that slip right on. Invented by Queen Victoria’s shoemaker ...

A new UEFI Secure Boot bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-7344 that affects a Microsoft-signed application could be exploited to deploy bootkits even if Secure Boot protection is active.

Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability that could allow a bypass of the Secure Boot mechanism in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems. The vulnerability, ...

Sodium-cooled fast reactors using metallic-alloy fuel are attracting attention because they are inherently safe and produce more fuel than they use.

A thorough analysis of market, technological, and supply chain outcomes for sodium-ion batteries finds that significant advances are needed before commercialization. Legions of battery engineers ...

The latest darling contender among researchers, startups, and venture capitalists—sodium-ion batteries—has received much attention after COVID-induced mineral supply chain challenges sent lithium ...