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US Energy Department Runs Nuclear Weapons, National Labs and a $17.5 Billion Reactor Loan Push
WASHINGTON, July 25 — The United States Department of Energy occupies a singular position on the American national…
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High Pressure Heat Domes Trap Hot Air And Amplify Extreme Temperatures
WASHINGTON, July 25 — A sprawling, stagnant high-pressure system that meteorologists call a heat dome has become a…
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Light Pollution Hides the Milky Way From More Than a Third of the World
WASHINGTON, July 25 — Light pollution has escalated into a global environmental crisis that now affects the overwhelming…
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NASA and Energy Department seek nuclear thermal reactor designs for faster Mars trips
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The $2 billion nuclear Mars mission has quietly become one of the most strategically…
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From Mercury to Dragon: Launch abort systems save astronaut lives
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The launch escape system, a piece of engineering that separates crew from catastrophe, is…
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US Space Force’s NSSL Program: 1994 Origins to Military Space Access
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The National Security Space Launch program, the Pentagon’s primary mechanism for putting the nation’s…
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NYC Officials Warn Ontario Wildfire Smoke Could Compound Heat Wave Air Risks
NEW YORK, July 17 — State authorities issued a health warning today as fine particulate matter from Canadian…
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May 10, 1869: Golden Spike Unites Nation at Promontory Summit
PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah Territory, May 10 — The final spike was driven here today, completing the first transcontinental…
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Blue Origin Readies First Reused New Glenn Booster for Third Launch
SEATTLE, July 14 — Dave Limp has remade Blue Origin in his own image since taking the CEO…
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Raytheon Wins Up to $309.5 Million Space Force Contract to Digitize Eight Strategic Radars
COLORADO SPRINGS, July 14 — The United States Space Force, America’s newest military service born from a December…
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Kpler Analyst Suspects Gulf States Pay Iran Tolls to Move Oil Through Hormuz
BEIJING, July 13 — Brent crude oil futures rose 3.2 percent to $87.50 per barrel on March 18,…
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China Catches Long March-10B Booster at Sea, Then Lands Zhuque-3 Stage on Legs
BEIJING, July 10 — China has become the second country to successfully recover a liquid-fueled orbital-class rocket, following…
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Engineering the Impossible: How the Panama Canal Was Built
PANAMA CITY, July 10 — The Panama Canal stands as one of the most audacious and strategically consequential…
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Alan Stern Leads New Horizons to Solar System’s Edge
BOULDER, July 9 — The strategic calculus behind NASA’s most audacious outer solar system missions has a single,…
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James Litinsky revives America’s only rare earth mine
MOUNTAIN PASS, Calif., July 9 — The man who pulled the Western Hemisphere’s largest rare earth mine out…
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U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to 316.5 Million Barrels as Hormuz Crisis Drags On
WASHINGTON, July 9 — The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the world’s largest emergency crude oil stockpile, sits at roughly…
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Oil Above $100 Pushes U.S. Gasoline to $4.44 and Diesel to a Record
WASHINGTON, July 8 — The 5.8 percent surge in oil prices on March 30, 2025, is set to…
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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,…
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FCC Weighs Exempting Satellites From Environmental Review After SpaceX Deorbits 260
WASHINGTON, July 7 — The United States Federal Communications Commission is weighing a proposal that would exempt satellite…
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Hormuz Blockade Puts Spotlight on Five Other Chokepoints Threatening World Trade
TEHRAN, July 7 — About 21 million barrels of oil per day passed through the Strait of Hormuz…
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How Nuclear Fusion Works: The Science of Recreating a Star on Earth
WASHINGTON, July 6 — The race to harness the power of the stars is entering a new phase,…
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NASA Details Starship and Blue Moon Lander Timelines Ahead of Artemis III and IV
BOCA CHICA, Texas, July 6 — The SpaceX Starship, a fully reusable super-heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by…
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The Sugar Glider’s Long Glide: Precision, Parallax and a Fifty-Meter Descent
New York, July 5 — The first thing to understand about a Sugar Glider is what it cannot…
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Heat Wave Pushes Mid-Atlantic Grid Toward Record Demand and Diesel Backup
This week’s nationwide heatwave is doing something months of warnings from utilities could not: it is forcing a…
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