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Shock from Iran war has Trump’s vision for US energy dominance flailing

The closing of the Strait of Hormuz stranded tankers from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, which together provide 20 percent of global LNG....

AI models are terrible at betting on soccer—especially xAI Grok

“Every frontier model we evaluated lost money over the season and many experienced ruin,” the authors of the paper concluded, with the AI “systematically...

The Artemis II mission has ended. Where does NASA go from here?

The Artemis era well and truly began Friday evening when a shiny spacecraft that had traveled 700,000 miles around the Moon, carrying four astronauts,...

Four astronauts are back home after a daring ride around the Moon

Slamming into the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, NASA’s Orion spacecraft blazed a trail over the Pacific Ocean on...

Californians sue over AI tool that records doctor visits

Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent,...

New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone

There appear to be two separate arms originating from the same general location at the crust-mantle boundary. One branch slopes northeast to feed the...

Orion helium leak no threat to Artemis II reentry, but will require redesign

NASA’s schedule currently puts the launch of Artemis III in 2027 and Artemis IV in 2028. Kshatriya said he was confident NASA, working the...

RFK Jr. rewrites CDC panel’s charter, opening door to anti-vaccine quacks

As expected, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has significantly rewritten the charter for a federal vaccine advisory panel. The edits give him...

The Moon is already on Google Maps—did Artemis II really tell us anything new?

“The only illumination source on the Moon will be Earthshine, which is a different spectrum,” Deutsch said in a presentation last month at the...

Trump admin makes sweeping request for medical records of federal workers

The Trump administration wants to require health insurance companies to hand over troves of sensitive, detailed, and identifiable medical records from millions of federal...

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