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Massive AI development poses inflationary threat as consumers pay more for electricity 0
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- July 13, 2026
WASHINGTON– American consumers (and the Federal Reserve) are suffering another headache from high costs. The surge in data center investments — likely to top $700 billion this year — to boost artificial intelligence has made memory chips, computer processors and other equipment, as well as electricity, more expensive, and economists expect it to continue pushing
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As gas plants become AI engines, renewable energy allies fight for cleaner alternatives 0
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- July 11, 2026
HARRISBURG, Pa. — As explosive energy demand from artificial intelligence spurs a fossil fuel renaissance, renewable energy allies are trying to ensure huge data centers are also powered by climate-friendly sources. Lawmakers in states with stricter climate policies don’t want data centers to hinder their goal of reducing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. In other states,
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Oh! Most arXiv papers contain information that should never be shared 0
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- July 9, 2026
Some researchers who use the LaTeX markup language for typesetting unknowingly make private information public.Credit: Tom Houghton/Nature Nearly all of the nearly three million articles available on the arXiv preprint server contain details that the authors never wanted to share, according to a new study. The study, uploaded to arXiv in April and presented at
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Wally Funk, aviation pioneer and oldest woman to travel to space, dies 0
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- July 9, 2026
GRAPEVINE, Texas– Wally Funk, aviation pioneer and the oldest woman to launch into space, has died. She was 87 years old. Funk died Wednesday in his apartment at an assisted living facility in the Dallas and Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine, Texas, Grapevine City Councilwoman Duff O’Dell said Thursday. O’Dell, who described herself as Funk’s
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As transistors get smaller, the electrodes must also continue to shrink 0
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- July 8, 2026
The use of ultrathin 2D semiconductor materials promises to shrink transistors down to the nanometer scale. However, to achieve a substantial increase in the number of these transistors that can fit on a chip, it is necessary to reduce the metal contacts that connect them to external circuitry. Until now, it has been unclear how
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How to expand access to the critical minerals the world needs 0
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- July 8, 2026
When China tightened export licenses for seven rare earth elements in April 2025, Western governments responded in the same way they have to every other critical minerals crisis of the past five years. The European Union accelerated the issuance of extraction permits under the Critical Raw Materials Act. The United States expanded subsidies for domestic
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