The Virtual Tribune
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Dodge’s Legacy: The Engineer Who Shaped the Transcontinental Railroad
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, July 14 — A century after his death, the work of Grenville M. Dodge still…
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What Comes Next: Searching for More Complex Sugars in Space
ISLAMABAD, July 13 — The search for the chemical origins of life has moved deeper into space, with…
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Trump’s Strait of Hormuz toll sparks global oil market jitters
WASHINGTON, July 13 — For the families in Japan, India, and South Korea, the price of a tank…
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Oil Transit Data Reveals Tanker Traffic and Economic Dependence
LONDON, July 13 — The United States Energy Information Administration has published a detailed assessment of the Strait…
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Warwick-Led Team Finds 25 Faint Debris Fragments Missing From Public Catalogs
TUCSON, July 14 — A decades-old asteroid-hunting telescope has quietly exposed a blind spot in humanity’s ability to…
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Norwegian conscript data shows IQ scores falling since the 1975 birth cohort
OSLO, July 14 — A study published last year by researchers at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic…
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Global E-Waste Statistics: 62 Million Tonnes in 2022 and Recycling Falling Behind
ROME, July 14 — The shift is already underway, but the numbers tell a stark story of just…
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NASA’s 2028 Moon Landing Target Looks Unlikely as SpaceX and Blue Origin Landers Lag
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The Artemis program, NASA’s ambitious push to return humans to the Moon, now faces…
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Blue Origin Seeks $10 Billion at $130 Billion Valuation, Its First Outside Funding
SEATTLE, July 14 — The man who reshaped global commerce now has his eyes fixed on the stars.…
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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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US Launch Cost Per Kilogram Is a Third of Europe’s, New Study Finds
LOS ANGELES, July 14 — The commercial space launch market is in the midst of a pricing war…
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Oil steadies above $78 after Trump drops 20% Hormuz cargo fee
LONDON, July 14 — The global shipping industry and oil markets are breathing a collective sigh of relief…
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Iran Sanctions, War Risk Threaten Global Oil Prices
TEHRAN, July 14 — Iran’s oil exports have been slashed to a fraction of their former volume, and…
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Historical Context: IQ Testing and the Flynn Effect Since 1900
OSLO, July 14 — The scene in cognitive science is shifting under researchers’ feet. A new Norwegian study…
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Astronomers detect erythrulose, the first true sugar found in interstellar space
COPENHAGEN, July 13 — A Danish astronomer has been formally recognized for a discovery that reshaped the field…
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Iran war and Hormuz closure push oil, gas and fertilizer prices up worldwide
TEHRAN, July 13 — For communities across Asia watching the Strait of Hormuz, the figure of Iran’s Supreme…
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Strait of Hormuz closure passed 94 days as oil topped $120 a barrel
DUBAI, July 13 — The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow 33-kilometer-wide waterway between Iran and Oman, has long…
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Strait of Hormuz: Why the Oil and Gas Chokepoint’s 2026 Closure Matters
DUBAI, July 13 — For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has been the world’s most important energy chokepoint,…
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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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Putin Admits Fuel Rationing as Ukrainian Strikes Hit Russian Refineries
MOSCOW, July 13 — The arithmetic of Russia’s war economy is becoming harder to balance. Oil and gas…
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Nuclear Fusion Nears Historic Clean Power Breakthrough
ROME, July 6 — The shift is finally here. Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun, is…
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Shallow M6.3 quake off Loyalty Islands brings green alert and no tsunami threat
Seismologists are calling Monday’s magnitude 6.7 earthquake southeast of the Loyalty Islands a textbook shallow rupture. The U.S.…
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Strait of Hormuz: geography, history and why Asia depends on it
MANAMA, July 13 — The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the…
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Drone Strikes on Baltic Ports Cut Russian Oil Exports by About $970 Million in a Week
MOSCOW, July 13 — Russia’s oil exports declined by 10% in 2024 compared to the previous year, according…
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