The Department of Housing and Urban Development quietly released its annual homelessness report on Friday afternoon, 16 months after volunteers around the country carried out the 2025 homeless count. The news wasn’t all bad, in fact the data showed a small improvement overall. But these marginal gains elicited an odd response from the Trump administration, which opted to use the report as a…

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Birds of prey in South Africa are in trouble – a study analyses data from 16…

The satellites have the potential for a big payoff and quality internet for users.

A recent study found that around a third of AI app users are having deeply personal conversations with the chatbots. Even if you’re not sharing your deepest fears with an AI app, your questions and conversations may still include a significant amount of personal data.

A separate Stanford study found that six leading US AI companies all feed user inputs back into their models for future training,…

As long as housing remains a profit-driven investment for landlords, the pace and scope of decarbonization will be shaped by their financial calculations. That’s a problem.

For residential buildings, decarbonization upgrades have primarily gone to homeowners. (Michael P. Farrell / Albany Times Union via Getty Images)

Decarbonization is necessary to preserve life as we know it on the…

Last month was the hottest March ever recorded in the United States. This week, the Northeast and Plains states are sweating through record-breaking highs. About a third of the country is experiencing exceptional, severe, or extreme drought. Super Typhoon Sinlaku battered a pair of U.S. islands in the Pacific. This year’s wildfire season is shaping up to be extraordinarily destructive. And people…

For decades, structural engineers and IT teams have shared the same testing logic: apply controlled pressure, find where things give way and fix. In IT, that means a server that buckles at scale, a query that times out under load or a process that degrades when pushed past its limits.

Agentic AI could upend the way we approach testing. When an agent stops, there is no bug to fix, no threshold to…

Through the Artemis Program, NASA hopes to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon in its southern polar region. China, Russia, and the European Space Agency (ESA) have similar plans, all of which involve building bases near the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs)—craters that contain water ice—that dot the South Pole-Aitken Basin. For these and other agencies, it is vital that these…

A key precept of the Trumpian ethos is that immigration is a threat not only to American culture but to its prosperity. President Donald Trump and his allies have long used the language of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, the racist belief that white people and Western culture are being “replaced” by nonwhite immigrants.

In a similar vein, the Trump administration has warned of another…

Under the Trump administration, the SEC has taken a sledgehammer to enforcement against corporate crimes, with cases dropping to record lows — at the same time that corporate lobbying of the federal government has surged to unprecedented levels.

SEC chair Paul Atkins has argued that the whistleblower program presents “perverse incentives.” (Graeme Sloan / Bloomberg via Getty…