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- St. Louis Stakes Its Claim To The Major League Pickleball Top Spot With A Win In Grand Rapids
The St. Louis Shock dominated the 2026 Major League Pickleball mid-season tournament in Grand Rapids, losing just one game en route to the title.
- Former Dodgers, Mets Backstop Dies After Historic Career
The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets were among the teams to receive news that a trailblazing former catcher has died.
- Power-Bill Fears Drove Virginia’s First-In-Nation Data Center Tax
Virginia’s first-in-nation data center power tax reflects growing fears that AI infrastructure could raise electricity costs for households and communities.
- Renewed Iran Fighting Will Sustain Shift To Clean Energy
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at California's new EV rebates and Peak Energy's sodium-ion battery plans
- American Defense Should Champion Recycling To Compete With China
For decades proponents of recycling focused on environmental motives. As China looks defend its global monopoly on refining critical minerals, new rationale emerge.
Technology
- The Download: a donor conception cap and world models for AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic using sperm…
- The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
New climate evidence adds context to these long voyages.
- A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death
It's unclear how the planet avoided its star's bloated red giant stage.
- Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement
For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations.
- Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor
Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms.
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