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Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world? By Travis Diehl and Brad Trone The Jewish ...

No wires. No actuators. Shine light on the metal surface, and it rises like a button. KAIST researchers have developed a ...

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Proponents argue that the next defense bill's inclusion of right-to-repair will save the U.S. money, improve national security. A new bipartisan letter in Congress calls on DOD to swiftly address what ...

To avoid endless lines, one person in every party has to manically book and revise ride reservations on their phone. People in tech use AI apps to record and transcribe meetings, workplace chats and ...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools are challenging our understanding of plagiarism. How should we deal with plagiarism of ideas if this misbehaviour is increasingly common, and it is ...

July 23, 2026 A global shift toward healthier diets could sharply reduce livestock farming, free up agricultural land, and cut emissions from land-use change by 85% by 2050. At the same time, fruit, ...

As autonomous weapons become increasingly practical, banning them may prove impossible. Building stronger AI defenses could offer a more realistic path to protecting civilians and maintaining military ...

Climate change and misinformation are interconnected global crises shaped by tensions between individual, collective and vested interests. Drawing on climate psychology, we distil six insights for ...