Argonne National Lab finds magnesium oxide coating stabilizes sulfide solid-state electrolytes
The performance of a class of next-generation solid-state batteries may depend on a coating just a nanometer thick, roughly 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory combined computation and experiment to identify protective coatings for sulfide-based solid electrolytes, and pointedContinue Reading
Firefox’s new tab page adds AI-powered daily crossword widget
More widgets are coming to Firefox’s New Tab page, including an interactive crossword puzzle powered by the AI news reader Particle . The mini crossword game is updated daily, with puzzles based around recent content Particle‘s AI has ingested and summarised that day, and links to articles you can readContinue Reading
How one small city built a second act as a bio hub inside empty cigarette factories
Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines once described the city’s downtown as a “war zone.” In the early 1990s, Winston-Salem faced an identity crisis. When R.J. Reynolds, the tobacco giant that had defined the city for more than a century, shifted its manufacturing elsewhere, it left behind vacant factories, aging buildings andContinue Reading
The Traitor revives tariffs after Supreme Court defeat with new legal strategy
President Traitor 47’s latest tariffs took effect just after midnight Friday, replacing the temporary import taxes that expired overnight and imposing new duties on dozens of major U.S. trading partners under a different trade law than the one the Supreme Court rejected earlier this year. The tariffs apply to importsContinue Reading
The REAL Food Stamp Scandal
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?Continue Reading
How vulnerable is Russia’s Kola Peninsula? | DW News
Russia’s nuclear bastion is built around the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic. It’s home to Moscow’s nuclear submarines and strategic bombers — but relies on a remarkably narrow logistics network. Could that become a weak spot? You can watch the long version of this video here: https://youtu.be/_CGvulz_LmY For more newsContinue Reading
ENHYPEN hits Comic-Con ahead of EP
ENHYPEN’s Jake says the group is doing well and feels confident about its upcoming EP, ‘THE SIN : BLISS,’ while addressing recent changes in the band during an interview with The Associated Press at San Diego Comic-Con. #ENHYPEN #kpop #comicconContinue Reading
NASA to Support Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Testing, Advance Artemis
An image shows the B-1 and B-2 test stands at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on July 7, 2026. The test stand features dual, vertical firing positions built in the 1960s to test Saturn V rocket stages that carried humans to the Moon during the ApolloContinue Reading
Crew Works on Biomedicine, Spacesuits Day Before Swapping Commanders
Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov hands over command of the International Space Station to NASA astronaut Jessica Meir. NASA The Expedition 74 crew is wrapping up its final weekend together with biomedical checks, spacesuit cleaning, and cargo packing inside the Soyuz MS-28 crew spacecraft. The orbital residents will swap commanders onContinue Reading
ISS Results: Materials Science
From Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars, explore the world of human spaceflight with NASA each week on the official podcast of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Listen to in-depth conversations with the astronauts, scientists and engineers who make it possible. On episode 430, Kim de GrohContinue Reading
Can We Finally Admit Christopher Nolan Leans Right (and Still Makes Good Movies)?
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack. This morning as I took my daily walk with my son I was listening to the latest episode of The Big Picture, the Ringer’s colossus of a movies podcast, and it crystallized some of the thoughts I’ve had banging around in my headContinue Reading
House Passes $1 Trillion Bill That Critics Say Integrates U.S. and Israeli Militaries
On July 22, the House of Representatives approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), H.R. 8800, for fiscal year 2027, which includes a provision expanding defense cooperation and integration between the United States and Israel. The vote was 216-212, largely along party lines, but six Democrats joined the Republican majority: Reps. Henry CuellarContinue Reading
Pro Women’s Tennis to Require Genetic Testing
This story was originally published by The 19th. The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has taken a step beyond most other women’s sports leagues by requiring genetic sex testing for female athletes. Despite being targeted at transgender women, this policy has the greatest potential to impact intersex cisgender women — especiallyContinue Reading