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Liberia’s EPA Gets New HQ, Marking Institutional Growth
MONROVIA, July 17 — Liberia’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the government body tasked with safeguarding the country’s environment and natural resources, marked a significant milestone...
New Japanese Fabric Cools Crops, Lets Sunlight Through
TOKYO, July 16 — A Japanese company has developed an agricultural fabric that selectively blocks heat-causing light while letting through the visible sunlight that plants...
SpaceX Vaporizes 260 Starlink Satellites Over Six Months
WASHINGTON, July 7 — SpaceX has deliberately deorbited and vaporized 260 Starlink satellites over the past six months, a move that has placed the company’s...
Satellite Light Pollution: From 2019 Starlink to Astronomer Concerns
HAWTHORNE, Calif., July 6 — The first Starlink satellites launched in May 2019. That single deployment, part of SpaceX’s plan for a large constellation providing...
Starlink to Light Pollution: A History of Satellite Concerns
WASHINGTON, July 6 — When the first Starlink satellites shot into orbit back in May 2019, few people outside the astronomy community paid much attention...
Türkiye unveils green finance strategy for sustainable economy
ANKARA, July 5 — Türkiye has unveiled its National Green Finance Strategy and Action Plan for 2026-2029, a framework designed to accelerate the country’s shift...
FCTA and IHS complete distribution of 10,000 LPG cylinders in Abuja
Ten thousand. That is the number of families in Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory who just got a free LPG cylinder and a refill voucher. The...
Shallow 5.2 quake east of South Sandwich Islands fits regional pattern
A shallow magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck east of the South Sandwich Islands early Thursday, at 05:14 UTC, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake hit...
WORLD NEWS
USGS Detected 5.0 Shallow Earthquake South of Kermadec Islands on July...
The U.S. Geological Survey detected the 5.0 earthquake south of the Kermadec Islands on July 17, 2026, at 13:16 UTC. The agency’s global seismic monitoring...
Skyroot Aerospace launches India’s first private orbital rocket
HYDERABAD, July 17 — The story of India’s private space sector begins, in many ways, with two engineers who once worked at India’s most famous...
Gordie Howe Bridge Set to Open in 2025 as Public Alternative
DETROIT, July 16 — The Gordie Howe International Bridge, a new publicly-owned cable-stayed span connecting Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, remains on track for its...
Starlink Hits 10,000 Satellites, 12M Subscribers by June 2026
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 16 — Starlink, the satellite broadband subsidiary of SpaceX, has quietly transformed from an experimental project into the company’s dominant revenue engine....
US Commemorative Coins: Authorization, Design, and Issuance Process
ISLAMABAD, July 16 — A commemorative coin is a coin issued to mark a particular event or issue, featuring a distinct design that references the...
Vera Rubin Observatory Vulnerable to Satellite Interference
LA SERENA, Chile, July 16 — The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been scanning the southern sky every 40 seconds since July 2026, when full...
AI & TECH
Noam Shazeer’s Character.AI Lets Teens Create AI Companions
WASHINGTON, July 15 — Noam Shazeer, the computer scientist who co-authored the landmark 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need,” has built a career that...
Ilya Sutskever: Co-Inventor of Transformer and GPT-3 Leader
SAN FRANCISCO, July 13 — Ilya Sutskever, the co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, has spent the last year quietly reshaping the strategic calculus of...
Copper thefts surge as AI data centers drive demand
NEW YORK, July 7 — The artificial intelligence boom has a material problem, and it is not just about chips or power. It is about...
AI Demand Drives U.S. Data Center Boom Past 5,000 Facilities
NEW YORK, July 7 — The figure that matters: $35 billion in data center construction spending in 2023, up from $20 billion in 2020. By...
What’s Next: The Future of AI and Employment After the Report
WASHINGTON, July 6 — A new industry report on the future of artificial intelligence presents a mixed picture, suggesting that while major companies continue to...
