The Virtual Tribune
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US and Saudi Arabia Sign Civil Nuclear Agreement Giving American Firms Access
RIYADH, July 22 — Saudi Arabia has thrown open its civilian nuclear market to U.S. companies, a move…
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Magnitude 5.6 quake strikes Kermadec Islands, no tsunami risk
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, July 21 — A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck the Kermadec Islands region on Tuesday at…
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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Aces Mars Flyby En Route to Metal Asteroid
LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2026 — infopulsetoday.com — NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has used Mars as a gravitational slingshot…
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Bab el-Mandeb Strait: the narrow gate that carries Gulf oil toward Suez
CAIRO, July 22 — The Bab el-Mandeb strait, a 20-mile-wide maritime passage whose Arabic name translates to “Gate…
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Trump adds Abraham Accords condition a day after US-Saudi nuclear agreement is signed
WASHINGTON, July 22 — On a sun-baked July afternoon, the long-simmering civilian nuclear pact between the United States…
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US-Saudi 123 nuclear agreement: what it allows on enrichment and what critics say
WASHINGTON, July 22 — The Trump administration has submitted a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia to Congress,…
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Uranium enrichment powers civilian reactors and nuclear weapons
WASHINGTON, July 22 — The technical reality of enriched uranium is that it is simply uranium in which…
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OPEC+ keeps output steady despite rising geopolitical tensions
VIENNA, July 21 — The 23-nation OPEC+ alliance holds a spare production capacity of roughly 4 to 5…
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State Renewable Portfolio Standards: How They Work and What They Have Driven
LONDON, July 21 — The renewable portfolio standard, or RPS, has become the quiet workhorse of clean electricity…
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NASA Asks Industry for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Designs for Mars Missions
HUNTSVILLE, July 21 — The old saying about rocket science just got a nuclear upgrade. Engineers at NASA’s…
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Political Psychology Explores Voting, Leadership, and Extremism
ROME, July 21 — The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune of 1871 did more than redraw borders.…
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Russia’s Central Bank Sells Gold for a Tenth Straight Month, Ukrainian Intelligence Says
MOSCOW, July 21 — The shift in global gold flows is becoming harder to ignore. Russia, the world’s…
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Texas, Spain and Norway show the risks of putting households on wholesale electricity prices
WASHINGTON, July 21 — At a suburban utility substation outside Denver, the digital readout on a transformer flickers…
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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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From SSD to SSC: 60-Year Evolution of U.S. Space Systems Command
LOS ANGELES, July 21 — On a sprawling campus in El Segundo, past the security gates of Los…
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Bab el-Mandeb: Critical chokepoint for global oil and trade
CAIRO, July 21 — The Bab el-Mandeb strait, a narrow chokepoint between the Red Sea and the Gulf…
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Peaker Plants: Costly, Inefficient Power Plants Used During Peak Demand
NEW YORK, July 21 — The peaking power plant, a machine built to sprint rather than run a…
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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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SpaceX’s Starlink Earns $11.4B in 2025, Largest Business Segment
LOS ANGELES, July 21 — Starlink, the low Earth orbit broadband constellation operated by SpaceX’s wholly owned subsidiary…
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EIA Reports Crude Stocks Drop 6.1 Million Barrels in June
WASHINGTON, July 21 — Every Wednesday morning, the ritual unfolds quietly behind the scenes. At 10:30 AM Eastern,…
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Space Force Triples Launch Contract Ceiling to $17 Billion, Pushing NSSL Past $30 Billion
WASHINGTON, July 21 — A $30 billion procurement for national security launches has set the stage for one…
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Australia’s home battery boom is helping to push down electricity prices
MANILA, July 21 — For communities across Asia, the cost of keeping the lights on has always been…
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FERC regulates transmission and wholesale power costs, while states set retail electricity rates
WASHINGTON, July 21 — More than $1 billion in civil penalties and disgorgement of unjust profits. That is…
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From Babylon to Ptolemy: How Ancient Mapmakers Pictured the World
LONDON, July 21 — The history of cartography is a record of human efforts to model reality—or imagined…
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