Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics with $80M to automate construction.

Young Graduates Are Facing an Employment Crisis.

New Details in Air India Crash Probe Shift Focus to Senior Pilot.

Medical charlatans have existed through history. But AI has turbocharged them.

Trump Administration Injects Even More Bigotry Into The US Military.

A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem.

Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds.

Astronomers Discover Rare Distant Object in Sync with Neptune.

NIST Ion Clock Sets New Record for Most Accurate Clock in the World.

On July 4, the Guadalupe ripped our home from its pillars, pulling my family into its waters and into the night. Then morning came. Now that is a writer.

Congress moves to reject bulk of White House’s proposed NASA cuts.

What Caused the ‘Baby Boom’? What Would It Take to Have Another?

The tariff-driven inflation that economists feared begins to emerge.

If You Like 35 Percent Inflation, Go Ahead, Fire the Fed Chair. MAGA clowns really are gonna FAFO, aren’t they?

Is remote work only for the rich? Double standard ignites workplace tension.

The Democratic Party Can’t Go Back to the Clinton Era, as Much as “Experts” Claim It Should.

Notes from the ER in an Anti-Science Age.

Large study squashes anti-vaccine talking points about aluminum.

The scars of the flood: Navigating loss on the Guadalupe River.

How weather conspiracy theories moved from online fringes to state laws. The morons are in charge at every level now.

Computer sales have perked back up while we’re buying fewer smartphones and tablets every year, according to research firm IDC. A computer is the only actually-useful tool that does not brain-rot you.

Trump is enabling Chinese power.

No existing theory of political economy appears sufficient to explain the self-sabotage of Trumpism.

How we lost the ability to think.

Why Donald Trump is facing doubts in the ‘manosphere.’

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress.

The Grand Canyon Lodge was an elusive getaway for nearly a century. Now it’s gone.

Gen Z is right about the job hunt—it really is worse than it was for millennials, with nearly 60% of fresh-faced grads frozen out of the workforce.

China Isn’t Playing The Same Game Anymore. And the West still doesn’t get it.

Inflation heats up in June as President Trump’s tariffs start to bite.

Red States, Defying Reality, Are Reclassifying Gas as a “Green” Fuel. Alrighty then.

Window Heat Pumps Could Change the Game.

Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe.’

Europe offers platitudes, Trump dithers, and Ukraine and its extraordinary people stand on the brink. Nato must step up.

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here’s how to stop it.

GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance.

James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations over funding shortfalls. Moronic, like all the MAGA shit.

Let me pay for Firefox!

The Great Splintering: How Digital Tech Shattered Cultural Control.

The first summer we all got staph.

Trump Reaches Deal to Send Weapons to Ukraine.

How the Tragedy at Camp Mystic Unfolded, Cabin by Cabin.

How China’s Military Is Flexing Its Power in the Pacific.

In America’s Return to the Office, Women Are Falling Behind. Evil stuff; RTO is pure evil.

We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.

Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs, thanks to Ken Griffin.

Earth’s Poet of Scale.

The Supreme Court’s Ruling Practically Wipes Out Free Speech for Sex Writing Online.

Mamdani Win Causes World’s Whiniest Babies to Melt Down.

MAGA is the disease of the algorithmically poisoned.

A new Martian climate model suggest a mostly cold, harsh environment.

US housing shortage grew to record 4.7M units.

How does a screen work?

Astronomers Detect a Black Hole Merger That’s So Massive It Shouldn’t Exist.

Canada, Japan and Australia: Swing States or Pawns for China?

US Naval Revival in the Indo-Pacific Ramps Up.

Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods.

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show.

In a First, Solar Was Europe’s Biggest Source of Power Last Month.

Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding.

The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist’s Magnum Opus.

Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers’ stuff.

World must be more wary than ever of China’s growing economic power.

The Trump Administration Is Planning to Use AI to Deny Medicare Authorizations.

The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere. I’ll take one.

Bear-Sized Giant Beavers Once Roamed North America.

‘Autofocus’ specs promise sharp vision, near or far.

The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Climate Chaos to Come.

The Milky Way could be teeming with more satellite galaxies than previously thought. Can I have one?

‘Show Your Papers’ Threatens Life On the Internet. Freedom has decreased greatly since the 1980s. And getting worse all the time.

How Volkswagen’s Electric Bus Went From American Flagship to Flop.

‘Vibe Coding’ Has Arrived for Businesses.

Pentagon Just Made A Massive, Long Overdue Shift To Arm Its Troops With Thousands Of Drones.

Clarence Thomas has long tried to undercut the Voting Rights Act. Now, he may finally have the numbers.

Doing exercises that increase your heart and breathing rate on a regular basis may reduce your risk of an early death across all causes by up to 40%, according to a new meta-analysis of 85 studies that looked at 7 million people worldwide.

The Outsize Impact of AI Logistics.

Few Texas Homeowners Hit by Extreme Rains Have Flood Insurance. The lack of coverage is becoming more problematic as climate change intensifies storms.

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts. Moronic.

German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws.

The Origin of the Research University.

First-Time Homebuyers Are Vanishing, and the American Dream Is on Life Support.

How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke.

Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Actually Reduce Productivity.

The Death of Partying in the U.S.A.—and Why It Matters.

U.S. rocked by four 1-in-1,000-year storms in less than a week. Climate change is making severe storms both more common and more intense.

A weak handgrip could be an indication of a host of diseases among over-50s.

Study finds children in U.S. became increasingly unhealthy over past 17 years.

US court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule designed to make unsubscribing easier. Well that sucks.

Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion.

Extreme heat is a killer. A recent heat wave shows how much more deadly it’s becoming. And…that’s climate change at work.

Investors snap up growing share of US homes as traditional buyers struggle to afford one.

The worst bill in modern history. Democrats must make it a career-ender for Republicans.

What Happens When Most of the Adults in Boys’ Lives Are Women.

Shrinkflation.

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system. And now due to Trump we’re gonna fuck it up in the US.

Hi-Res Audio Is Pointless for Everyday Listeners.

Call Center Workers Are Tired of Being Mistaken for AI.

FEMA’s response to Texas flood slowed by Noem’s cost controls.

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists. We are letting the bots rule us now.

When Figma Starts Designing Us The subtle ways in which design tools shape how we think and what we make. Y’all need to read your McLuhan.

Floods are getting more dangerous around the country, not just in Texas.

As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges.

EVs Will Decimate Big Oil. Even Without U.S. Tax Credits.

The U.S. Is Switching Sides. Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

My Parody Resume of a Unicorn Developer actually gets genuine interview invites, while mine doesn’t.

A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy.

Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador.

TSA Is Dropping Its Most Hated Airport Security Policy.

What happened to me at Microsoft is a signal for what is to come for others, and it doesn’t look good.

Iran receives Chinese surface-to-air missile batteries after Israel ceasefire deal.

To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset.

US universities face $1bn revenue hit over foreign student fears.

COVID was inadvertently the best thing that happened to large parts of society, and we’re being forced to forget that.

In Texas, cutting-edge weather forecasts hit their limits as Trump budget cuts loom. Climate change is making severe storms worse, heightening the need for the development of advanced forecasting models, but severe storm research is on the chopping block.

China Has Paid a High Price for Its Dominance in Rare Earths.

Russia ramps up use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine, including WWI-era poison gas, 3 European intel services say.

US sets new measles record amid at least 27 outbreaks—and it’s only July. Degrowth is working.

First-Time Home Buyers Are MIA. Landlords Are the Winners.

A Texas Dad Tried to Kayak to His Daughters. The Girls Texted, ‘I Love You.’ Well that’s about the worst thing I’ve ever read.

Endometriosis and vulvodynia, or chronic genital pain, are common gynecological conditions that can cause severe pain. They each affect about 1 in 10 American women.

New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source.

The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long.

ICE Budget Now Bigger Than Most of the World’s Militaries.

AI could create a ‘Mad Max’ scenario where everyone’s skills are basically worthless, a top economist says.

Trump has dropped a big, beautiful bomb on America’s economy.

Microsoft’s H-1B Visa Applications Questioned Amid Mass Layoffs.

Why Do Killer Whales Keep Handing Us Fish? Scientists Unpack the Mystery.

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas.

China snaps up mines around the world in rush to secure resources.

Tiny Coffins Across America. Do you like your children to be alive? Evidently the new ACIP does not.

The Internet Needs Sex.

Late-Career Job Losses Are Blurring What Retirement Looks Like in America.

Fake Patriots Are Destroying Everything That Made America Great.

Homeowners Who Gambled on Lower Rates Are Paying the Price.

America Has Pulled Off the Impossible. It Made Getting a Passport Simple.

How a nuclear attack on the U.S. might unfold, step by step.

GOP Budget Bill Includes Massive Spectrum Handout To Large Wireless Carriers, Hurting WiFi Speeds.

Moderna says mRNA flu vaccine sailed through trial, beating standard shot.

A Majority of Companies Are Already Feeling the Climate Heat.

As the United States retreats from the world, it is reshaping the lives of its former trading partners and allies, leaving huge holes in its wake. The CCP must be having a huge fucking celebration right now.

Trump Is Breaking American Intelligence. And everything else.

What Drones Can—and Cannot—Do on the Battlefield.

‘Everything becomes crab’ is more than an absurd meme. The crab is a deep symbol of our devil’s bargain with technology.

Trump Is Coming for Your Citizenship.

After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage.

Had NASA maintained its parallel pursuit of artificial gravity, we might now have permanent orbital settlements supporting deep space missions rather than the limited outposts we’ve settled for.

Quantum equivalent of thermodynamics’ second law discovered for entanglement manipulation.

Reanalysis of Kepler data uncovers two planets in KOI-134 system with unusual orbital dynamics.

Xfce Is My Favorite Linux Desktop. Mine too. It’s the only desktop environment that is not a total fucking clown show.

Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare. And it gets worse and worse.

F-22 Raptors Will Be First To Control ‘Fighter Drone’ Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

Why 50,000 Iconic French Shirts, Intended for America, Sit in Storage.

How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy.

In the face of anti-science politics, silence is not without cost.

Beneath the Surface of the Employment Report: How Jobs Evolved by Industry over Time, Winners & Losers.

The Mediterranean Sea is experiencing a record-smashing heat wave.

The church by the airport: Inside Russia’s suspected spy activities in Sweden.

Microsoft exec offers ChatGPT prompts to fired workers in a twisted new era of empathy as a service.

The EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment And Labor Act) will be the next healthcare domino to fall, and illegal aliens will be the justification. Yup. Pure evil.

Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms.

Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM.

Don’t Buy the Scare About Social Security.

Brace Yourself for Watery Mayo and Spiky Ice Cream. MAHA is coming for emulsifiers. Jesus Christ. Fucking morons.

‘Too many, too soon’? Debunking a common fear about kids’ vaccines.

CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs.

Elon Musk and the power of the bro-code.

The Battle to Keep Consumers Means Smaller Packs of Cookies and Chips.

The big beautiful bill reveals the hollowness of Trumponomics.

Proof That Adult Brains Make New Neurons Settles Scientific Controversy.

I’m human. Are you? The battle for our online identity.