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New rules that trim crash reporting requirements and widen testing access for U.S. robotaxis are hailed as an innovation edge ...

Lisa Pavia-Higel is an assistant teaching professor of English and technical communication at the Missouri University of ...

Alexander Soifer is a professor of mathematics and European cinema at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He has ...

National Science Foundation staff were told to freeze outgoing funding days after NSF leadership introduced a new policy that ...

Scientists previously thought that solar geoengineering—or releasing particles into the atmosphere to reflect solar ...

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Deni Ellis Béchard is Scientific American’s senior tech reporter. He is author of 10 books and has received a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, a Midwest Book Award, and a Nautilus Book Award for ...

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In response to a power outage in Spain and Portugal, the U.S. Department of Energy’s secretary Chris Wright tried to blame ...

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