A small FPV drone hovering over a major sports stadium, illustrating the new security challenges addressed by the Pentagon’s JIATF 401 guidance.

The new obsession with security in the United States is not a truck or a fence, but an FPV drone, and the Pentagon already has a low-cost plan

Kevin Montien
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February 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM

What if the biggest risk to a packed stadium no longer comes through the gate, but glides in from hundreds of yards away, the…..

Aerial view of the LKAB iron ore mine in Kiruna, Sweden, where a massive deposit of 2.2 million tons of rare earth oxides was discovered.

Sweden explores a mine and discovers that we have an “ace up our sleeve” against Chinese dominance in rare earths

Kevin Montien
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February 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM

For years, European officials have worried about what would happen if China turned off the tap on rare earth metals. Today, the country processes…..

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A small FPV drone hovering over a major sports stadium, illustrating the new security challenges addressed by the Pentagon’s JIATF 401 guidance.

The new obsession with security in the United States is not a truck or a fence, but an FPV drone, and the Pentagon already has a low-cost plan

Kevin Montien
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February 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM

What if the biggest risk to a packed stadium no longer comes through the gate,…..

Architectural rendering of a new neighborhood security center in La Florida, Chile, showing a modern glass building with coworking spaces and community workshops.

Florida is betting heavily on the Bukele formula and has announced six centers with cameras, coworking spaces, and ground patrols that will open during the first half of 2026

Kevin Montien
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February 24, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Can you fight crime with coworking tables, youth workshops, and a bank of security cameras…..

Elon Musk presenting the Tesla Optimus humanoid robot at a shareholder meeting in Austin.

Musk becomes the first human to exceed $800 billion thanks to the merger of SpaceX and xAI, valued at $1.25 trillion

Kevin Montien
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February 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM

For the first time in history, a single person now sits on a paper fortune…..

A conceptual rendering of the Brazilian Navy’s Álvaro Alberto nuclear-powered attack submarine under construction at the Itaguaí Naval Complex.

Brazil surprises the world with its first nuclear submarine, while rising to 11th place among the world’s military powers and making giants such as China and Russia nervous

Adrian Villellas
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February 23, 2026 at 6:30 AM

When most people think of Brazil, they picture soccer stadiums, Carnival, and endless beaches. Yet…..

A historical map of the 17th-century Svalbard archipelago alongside an illustration of a wooden whaling shore station in the snow.

They slept among whale bones, defeated 40 bears, and survived 273 days without being rescued in 1630

Adrian Villellas
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February 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Centuries before GPS trackers, heated parkas, and satellite ice charts, eight English whalemen were accidentally…..

A portable gas-powered generator positioned outside a home with an illustration showing how a lack of a transfer switch leads to dangerous electrical backfeeding into power lines.

He connected his generator incorrectly and left half the neighborhood without power

Adrian Villellas
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February 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Miswired home generators are creating a new danger for crews trying to put Nashville back…..

A detailed view of the "Hall of the Bulls" in the Lascaux cave, featuring prehistoric paintings of aurochs, horses, and deer.

In 1940, a teenager was following his dog through the woods… and ended up discovering a secret cave with more than 600 paintings dating back 17,000 years

Adrian Villellas
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February 22, 2026 at 8:45 AM

More than eighty years after a teenager squeezed through a hole in a tree in…..

An aerial view of the vast turquoise evaporation ponds at the Salar de Atacama lithium deposit in northern Chile.

China sets conditions for Chile to approve the lithium agreement and demands total priority over the mineral from the Salar de Atacama, the most coveted on the planet

Kevin Montien
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February 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM

China has just locked in a powerful new safety net for its electric vehicle industry……

Science

An aerial view from the International Space Station showing bright green circular crop fields in the Nefud Desert near Jubbah, Saudi Arabia.

NASA captures perfect green circles in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert from the Space Station, and what lies beneath the sand surprises scientists

Adrian Villellas
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February 24, 2026 at 6:30 AM

NASA astronauts just turned a patch of Saudi desert into a global talking point after…..

Microscopic view of T7 bacteriophage viruses attacking E. coli bacteria, highlighting the viral tail fibers used for attachment.

The idea seems like a crazy but profitable one: “mutating” viruses that feed on bacteria in the ISS to destroy superbugs that no longer respond to antibiotics

Adrian Villellas
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February 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM

What if the next medicine against drug resistant infections did not come from a factory…..

60,000-year-old quartz microlith stone tool from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter showing traces of plant-based poison residue.

For the first time, it has been confirmed that 60,000 years ago, people were already hunting with poisoned arrows in Africa, and the evidence was attached to tiny stone tips

Kevin Montien
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February 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Long before chemistry labs or hunting manuals, people in southern Africa were already using plant…..

A cross-section diagram of Jupiter's moon Europa showing the thick outer ice shell, the global liquid ocean, and the rigid rocky seafloor mantle.

The most likely candidate for harboring alien life could be completely dead inside

Adrian Villellas
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February 23, 2026 at 10:15 AM

For years, Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has sat near the top of the “where could…..

A composite image showing a radio wave detection of hydrogen gas (Cloud-9) overlaid on a seemingly empty black starfield captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA discovers a “failed galaxy” without a single star just 14 million light-years from Earth

Kevin Montien
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February 23, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Astronomers have confirmed a strange kind of object in our cosmic neighborhood. About 14 million…..

A full-scale engineering development unit of a NASA nuclear rocket reactor, measuring 44 inches wide, during cold flow testing at Marshall Space Flight Center.

NASA has just tested its first nuclear engine for travel beyond Jupiter, and no one is talking enough about what this means for the future of humanity

Kevin Montien
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February 22, 2026 at 6:30 AM

For the first time in more than half a century, NASA has put a flight-scale…..

A high-resolution cross-section diagram of a perovskite solar cell showing the added taurine antioxidant layer between the tin dioxide and the perovskite crystal.

Korean scientists were studying the deterioration of a key material for future energy and ended up discovering that octopuses had been using the perfect solution for millions of years

Adrian Villellas
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February 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Perovskite solar cells have long been billed as the next big thing in clean energy,…..

Portrait of inventor Thomas Edison, whose 1879 lamp experiments may have produced graphene-like carbon without anyone realizing it.

Thomas Edison may have created graphene by accident in 1879 without knowing it, and science has only realized this almost 150 years later

Kevin Montien
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February 20, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Every time you flip on a light, you are tapping into a technology that goes…..