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Three billion years ago, Earth's life relied on a rare metal

A collaborative team of scientists has discovered that life on Earth over three billion years ago relied on the metal molybdenum, which was incredibly scarce in the environment at the time. The study, published in Nature Communications, is the first to show that molybdenum was

Marco Rubio Rushes to Claim Trump Didn’t Threaten the Pope

Even the president’s Cabinet is having a hard time subscribing to what Donald Trump is saying about Pope Leo XIV. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attempted to cover for his MAGA boss, telling a reporter at the White House Tuesday that she had mischaracterized Trump’s recent

The ocean system that shapes Europe's climate

For generations, the mild and temperate climate of northwestern Europe has been credited to one legendary force: the Gulf Stream. This idea is so deeply entrenched in our cultural identity that in James Joyce's Ulysses, the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, refuses to take a bath,

Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI

Xbox is "winding down Copilot on mobile" and "will stop development of Copilot on console," new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sharma's reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft's CoreAI team

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FAA contractor charged with threatening to kill Trump

A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) contractor in New Hampshire is facing federal charges after authorities said he threatened to kill President Trump and used a work computer to research previous assassination attempts against the president. Dean DelleChiaie, 35, was