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ENR Texas & Southeast Inaugural Top Contractors Ranking Reveals Soon
Engineering News Record
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June 25, 2025
Construction initiated by the Texas Dept. of Transportation—such as this work on the $4.5-billion Capital Express Central project in Austin—provided considerable revenue opportunities for contractors in 2024. Image courtesy Texas Dept. of...
Frozen Light Switches: How Arctic Microbes Could Revolutionize Neuroscience
ScienceDaily
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Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold groundwater in Finland. As cold and beautiful these are, for the structural biologist Kirill Kovalev, they are more...
Co-op Bank Kenya partners with KTDA to offer tea farmers KSh 1.2b in mobile...
TUKO
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July 4, 2025
Co-op Bank and Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) partner to empower over 260,000 smallholder tea farmers According to the bank, the farmers will gain instant mobile loans through a new KSh 1.2 billion credit initiative Co-op Bank CEO Gideon...
When Will a Vital System of Currents in the Atlantic Ocean Collapse? Depends on Whom You Ask.
The Good Men Project - California
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July 5, 2025
By Rebecca Egan McCarthy, Grist “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Just below Greenland is a menacing stretch of water known as the Cold Blob. As the planet heats up, the Cold Blob remains a...
US review makes the AUKUS deal look more like a lemon than a bargain
The Sydney Morning Herald
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July 10, 2025
Save Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size I still fail to understand why the Australian government remains committed to spending...
Chilling Sensations: The Fascinating World of Cryorhodopsins
Bioengineer.org
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July 4, 2025
In the vast, frozen realms of Earth’s coldest environments—ranging from the sprawling glaciers of Greenland and the pristine icy aquifers of Finland to the lofty Tibetan plateaus—lurks a remarkable group of proteins poised to revolutionize...
Trump’s Secret is Hidden in Plain Sight
The New Hampshire Gazette
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July 11, 2025
To the Editor: Why do people find Trump’s behavior puzzling? The reasons for it are remarkably clear. The “stooge” strategy has been a mainstay of mafias since before the Borgias: find a prominent but indebted businessman, bail him out, own him...
Architecture beyond Earth: How SAGA Space Architects and Autodesk are shaping life in space
Space Explored
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June 25, 2025
Image: SAGA In an era where space exploration is transitioning from fleeting missions to lasting habitation, one question has emerged at the forefront: how do we not just survive, but thrive in environments beyond Earth? According to one company,...
Rare blue proteins from cold-adapted microbes could serve as prototypes for molecular on-off switches
Phys.org
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July 4, 2025
Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold groundwater in Finland. As cold and beautiful as these are, for the structural biologist Kirill Kovalev, they are more...
ENR Texas & Southeast's Inaugural Top Contractors Ranking Revealing Soon
Engineering News Record
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June 25, 2025
Construction initiated by the Texas Dept. of Transportation—such as this work on the $4.5-billion Capital Express Central Project in Austin—provided considerable revenue opportunities for contractors in 2024. Image courtesy Texas Dept. of...
ENR Texas & Southeast Inaugural Top Contractors Ranking Revealed Soon
Engineering News Record
·
June 25, 2025
Construction initiated by the Texas Dept. of Transportation—such as this work on the $4.5-billion Capital Express Central project in Austin—provided considerable revenue opportunities for contractors in 2024. Image courtesy Texas Dept. of...
Denmark Confirms Purchase of 10 Additional F-35 Jets and EU-Backed Patriot Aid for Ukraine
Defense-aerospace.com
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July 9, 2025
U.S Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Addie Peterson Denmark’s defence ministry has moved to expand its combat-air and air-defence posture with two closely linked decisions reached in Washington this week. Copenhagen will order at least...
Donald Trump: Warmonger or peacemaker?
Frontline - The Hindu
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July 3, 2025
Six months into his second presidency, Trump has shown a wide array of foreign policy possibilities—from wanting to take over Greenland and buy the Panama Canal, to looking at Gaza as real estate to develop, to announcing he would end the Ukraine...
Opinion: Climate change is very real, and we must adapt
Caribbean National Weekly
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July 10, 2025
The sparkling fireworks of July 4 were dimmed by the tragic news of flooding in Kerr County and surrounding areas in central Texas. Torrential rainfall caused rivers to overflow into residential communities, killing more than 100 people —...
The New Gold Rush for MAGA Lobbyists By Ben Terris
New York Mag
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July 10, 2025
Illustration: Zohar Lazar This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Before my interview with the lobbyist Ches (pronounced “chess”) McDowell, a Republican operative...
Climate Science Digest: July 9, 2025
Muser Press
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July 9, 2025
Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (July 9, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. University of Houston engineer creates a possible replacement for plastic In a world...
Australia and New Zealand Need to be More Vocal in Opposition to Trumpian Policies
The Diplomat
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July 10, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, including the recent reinstatement of tariffs, must necessarily lead to a rethink in Canberra and Wellington of their approaches to the current American administration. While both the Australian and...
The 1600: Reflections on the Near Assassination of Donald Trump
Newsweek
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July 11, 2025
Good morning, 🎶Friday Listening: Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down I've been in meetings this week planning our coverage for the anniversary of Trump's near-assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania on Sunday. Can you believe that was only a year...
Donald Trump’s Strike on Iran Proves Why Nuclear Deterrence Still Works
Fair Observer
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July 10, 2025
A spate of break-ins has been taking place in your neighborhood. Armed thugs associated with a crime syndicate have been knocking down doors and grabbing what they can. The police show up only after the assaults, which have led to injuries and...
Citing Trump’s rhetoric, Canadians skip Spokane theater shows
Cascade PBS - Washington
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July 3, 2025
Not even Spokane’s visiting production of Hamilton escaped Canadian backlash after President Donald Trump started to talk about annexing the country as the “51st state” earlier this year. The popular show failed to sell out after many Canadian...