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As Oil Profits Skyrocket, Calls for Windfall Taxes Rise
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Why Better‑Off Cities and Towns See More Benefits From Data Centers Than Rural Regions
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AI is Reengineering Drug Discovery by Speeding Up Testing and Scanning Petabytes of Data for Connections Between Diseases
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Why Iran Targeted Amazon Data Centers and What That Does – and Doesn’t – Change About Warfare
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New Study Measures Titanium in Apollo Rock to Uncover Moon’s Early Chemistry
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How Sewage Treatment Plants Could Handle Food Waste, Sparing Landfills and the Climate
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A Successful USDA Program That Has Supported More Than 533,000 Affordable Rental Homes in Rural America is Getting Phased Out
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US Military Leans Into AI for Attack on Iran, But the Tech Doesn’t Lessen the Need for Human Judgment In War
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Hacking the Grid: How Digital Sabotage Turns Infrastructure Into a Weapon
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