Fighting Wildfires Could Soon Get Harder
Simultaneous emergencies in different parts of the world could stop countries from sharing ground crews and equipment, new research warns.
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The Trump phone sure looks a lot like this HTC handset
Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts, and have stopped getting a response. This week, thanks to a reader tip, we think we’ve found the original phone the T1 is based on. A long time ago, back…
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Trump’s Foreign Policy: Resurrecting Empire
President Trump’s approach is a revival of the mission of empire — acquiring the territories and resources of sovereign peoples.
NASA scraps its 2027 moon landing, adds two missions in 2028
NASA’s path to the moon is taking a detour. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, will no longer land on the moon as originally planned, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced February 27 in a news conference. Instead, the agency aims to attempt two lunar landings in 2028. “Everyone agrees this is the only way…
Microsoft’s new AI training method eliminates bloated system prompts without sacrificing model performance
In building LLM applications, enterprises often have to create very long system prompts to adjust the model’s behavior for their applications. These prompts contain company knowledge, preferences, and application-specific instructions. At enterprise scale, these contexts can push inference latency past acceptable thresholds and drive per-query costs up significantly. On-Policy Context Distillation (OPCD), a new training…
Baseball should be riding high. Instead the salary cap debate has it gearing up for war | MLB
Baseball should be on a high. Spring training has begun and a record-breaking winter makes the games especially welcome – baseball means the good weather is coming soon. Injuries marred the NBA playoffs and the Super Bowl was a dud, but no sport settled its championship last year better than baseball, as the Los Angeles…
MEET BLAKE CAMERON JAMES, BREAKOUT ACTOR OF HBO’S ‘IT: WELCOME TO DERRY’
Fifteen-year-old Blake Cameron James is making a big name for himself as a rising star in #younghollywood as he brings Will Hanlon to life in the HBO limited series, It: Welcome to Derry. In It: Welcome to Derry, the Alabama-native is the beloved science-minded student whose family has a larger connection to the folklore of…
Mapping the Risks of Attacking Iran
Our national security correspondent David E. Sanger maps Iran’s options for retaliation if the United States or Israel strikes. By David E. Sanger, Coleman Lowndes, Abdi Latif Dahir, Samuel Granados, Stephanie Swart, Lazaro Gamio and Ray Whitehouse February 27, 2026
Eerie brainlike nebula captured in stunning new JWST images
February 27, 2026 1 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Eerie brainlike nebula captured in stunning new JWST images Nebula PMR 1 looks uncannily similar to an electrified brain inside a semitransparent skull By Claire Cameron edited by Clara Moskowitz NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI (image); Joseph DePasquale/STScI (image processing) The death of a star never looked so…