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Trump Repeals Key Greenhouse Gas Finding, Erasing EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change

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By:Lisa Friedman
13 February 2026 at 09:27
The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.

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Rigorous scientific findings since 2009 have shown that greenhouse gases and global warming are harming public health.

New Method Can Find Hidden Eggs to Aid in Fertility Treatment

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By:Pam Belluck
12 February 2026 at 05:02
A study reported that the conventional method of searching follicular fluid didn’t find all the eggs. The new technology found extra eggs more than half the time.

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A viable egg found by the OvaReady device that was not found using the conventional method.

Baboon Sibling Rivalry Suggests Monkeys Feel Jealousy Like People

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By:Annie Roth
11 February 2026 at 10:26
Young primates in a southern African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention to a younger brother or sister.

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Seals Are Recruited to Study the Ocean Under Antarctic Glaciers

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By:Raymond Zhong
10 February 2026 at 09:13
The environment is changing rapidly around the melting Thwaites Glacier. Seals can collect data in waters that ships could never reach.

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The tags themselves don’t seem to bother the animals, but Ms. Cheon and Mr. Chung agreed the tagging process tugs on some complicated heartstrings.

2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It’s Decaf.

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By:Pam Belluck
9 February 2026 at 13:56
One to two cups of caffeinated tea per day helps too, researchers found after following nearly 132,000 people for 40 years.

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Beyond two and a half cups of coffee daily, the advantage plateaued, possibly because there’s a limit to how much caffeine our bodies can metabolize, researchers said.

Can Mountain Lions Survive as Humans Close In? California Is Trying to Find a Way.

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By:Catrin Einhorn and Loren Elliott
10 February 2026 at 06:53
A giant freeway crossing for wildlife is due to open outside Los Angeles this year. Here’s the story of one young cat hemmed in near the city.

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War Came to Ukraine and Its Dogs Are Not the Same

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By:Anthony Ham
8 February 2026 at 05:01
Researchers discovered surprising changes to former pets along the front line of combat with Russia.

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A dog walked past damaged houses in the city of Svyatohirsk, Donetsk, last summer.

Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

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By:Benjamin Mullin · Katie Robertson and Erik Wemple
8 February 2026 at 09:40
His departure came days after the company cut 30 percent of the staff. He will be replaced in the interim by Jeff D’Onofrio, the chief financial officer, the company said.

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Will Lewis, the chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post, has stepped down, the company announced Saturday.

Spain Aims to Ban Social Media for Children Under 16

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By:José Bautista
3 February 2026 at 16:15
The announcement is part of a broader push by countries to curb access to online platforms for minors. It also points to Europe’s stricter approach to regulating social media.

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A child playing on a phone in Barcelona in 2024. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain said the social media ban would be part of a series of measures pushed by his government.

Move Fast, but Obey the Rules: China’s Vision for Dominating A.I.

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By:Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu
2 February 2026 at 02:30
Beijing wants to lead the world in developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence, but it also wants companies to adhere to an increasingly complex set of rules.

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Executives at Zhipu AI, one of China’s most promising A.I. start-ups, alongside others, at a launch event at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange last month.

Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI

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By:Ryan Mac · Kate Conger · Maureen Farrell and Rob Copeland
2 February 2026 at 21:22
The deal further intermingles Mr. Musk’s companies and creates the most valuable private company on earth.

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SpaceX’s rocket facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

The Tech Arsenal That ICE Has Deployed in Minneapolis

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By:Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik
31 January 2026 at 13:15
Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.

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A Border Patrol Agent scanning the face of a driver in Minneapolis this month.

Tesla Profit Slumps, but Investors May Not Care

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By:Jack Ewing
29 January 2026 at 15:21
The automaker also said it would invest $2 billion in xAI, the artificial intelligence company controlled by its C.E.O., Elon Musk, and stop making the two oldest models in its lineup.

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Falling car sales have taken a toll on Tesla’s net profit. The company announced Wednesday that it would stop producing its S and X model cars within months.

Elon Musk’s X Faces EU Inquiry Over Sexualized AI Images Generated by Grok

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By:Adam Satariano
26 January 2026 at 09:16
Regulators said the company’s lack of controls had led to the widespread use of deepfakes created with the chatbot Grok.

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The investigation is likely to escalate a confrontation between Europe and the United States over the regulation of online content.

Yann LeCun, an A.I. Pioneer, Warns the Tech ‘Herd’ Could Hit a Dead End

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By:Cade Metz
26 January 2026 at 05:01
Yann LeCun helped create the technology behind today’s chatbots. Now he says many tech companies are on the wrong path to creating intelligent machines.

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Yann LeCun’s early research paved the way for many of today’s A.I. systems.

Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show

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By:Kate Conger · Dylan Freedman and Stuart A. Thompson
22 January 2026 at 05:00
Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.

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The Grok chatbot was created by Elon Musk’s xAI start-up.

Filoplumes Are Nature’s Super Feather

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By:Jim Robbins and Bryan Anselm
21 January 2026 at 09:56
Filoplumes may be tiny, but these hairlike feathers enable nonstop flights that span thousands of miles.

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Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok

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By:Ali Watkins
15 January 2026 at 09:42
Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal.

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The prompt page for Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot made by Elon Musk’s xAI.

NASA Begins Astronaut Space Station Medical Evacuation: What to Know

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By:Kenneth Chang
14 January 2026 at 18:05
Four astronauts departed from the I.S.S. about a month earlier than scheduled because a crew member, who was not identified, has an undisclosed medical issue.

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The International Space Station crew members in their Crew Dragon pressure suits on Jan. 9. Clockwise from bottom left: NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui.

Elon Musk’s X Under UK Investigation Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images

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By:Adam Satariano
12 January 2026 at 17:25
A British regulator said it had started a formal investigation into Mr. Musk’s chatbot over the spread of illegal images.

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Grok’s prompt page on a phone. In recent weeks, the chatbot has posted sexualized photos of real people, including children, in response to user prompts.

Apple’s John Ternus Could Be Tim Cook’s Successor as CEO

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By:Kalley Huang and Tripp Mickle
8 January 2026 at 11:36
John Ternus, a low-profile but influential executive at Apple, could be next in line to replace the company’s longtime chief executive, Tim Cook, if he steps aside.

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The Scientists Making Antacids for the Sea to Help Counter Global Warming

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By:Ferris Jabr
11 January 2026 at 14:36
The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into the water.

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Adam Subhas of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

Trump Pulls U.S. Out of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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By:Somini Sengupta and Lisa Friedman
8 January 2026 at 06:18
The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin the Paris climate accord, the agreement among most nations to fight climate change.

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President Trump addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York last year.

California Tech Executives Plot Against Rep. Ro Khanna Over Support of Wealth Tax

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By:Theodore Schleifer
7 January 2026 at 13:19
It’s hard right now to be a progressive Democrat in the heart of America’s tech industry.

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Representative Ro Khanna of California has publicly defended a proposed ballot measure for a wealth tax in California that has angered some of the state’s richest executives.

A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup

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By:Hiroko Tabuchi
2 January 2026 at 15:25
Problems with a 25-year-old landmark paper on the safety of Roundup’s active ingredient, glyphosate, have led to calls for the E.P.A. to reassess the widely used chemical.

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U.S. regulators consider it safe, but the World Health Organization has said glyphosate is probably carcinogenic.

In Ukraine, an Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born in War Against Russia

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By:C.J. Chivers
5 January 2026 at 12:07
As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous killing machines.

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Bumblebee attack drones at a combat testing range outside Kharkiv, Ukraine.

How Well Does Apple’s Live Translation Work for Japanese? I Tested It in Tokyo.

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By:Ruffin Prevost
26 December 2025 at 05:00
A non-Japanese-speaking first-time visitor used Apple’s new in-ear translation feature to connect with locals at bars, sushi classes and even a fire ritual.

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Some of the World’s Atomic Clocks Were Off Last Week (by 5-Millionths of a Second)

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By:Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan
22 December 2025 at 18:14
How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat.

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A cesium fountain clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo.
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