Smithsonian Magazine

Albert Einstein Played With These Building Blocks as a Child. Here’s How They Helped Shape His Magnificent Mind

The 19th-century German toy pieces, made with quartz sand, chalk and linseed oil, allowed kids to create realistic structures ...
Wired

Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block

Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily. “Morale is probably the worst I’ve ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Physicists Create Homemade Cosmic Dust, Which Could Help Them Figure Out How the Building Blocks of Life First Reached Earth

Tiny specks of rock, ice, minerals or other chemical compounds float freely throughout the universe. This so-called cosmic dust contains ingredients crucial to the formation of stars, planets, comets ...
The Durango Herald

Vance says US seeks to create a critical minerals trading block with its allies to counter China

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration wants to create a critical minerals trading bloc with its allies that will use tariffs to maintain price floors and defend against China’s tactic of flooding ...
WRAL

Vance says US seeks to create a critical minerals trading block with its allies to counter China

Vance says US seeks to create a critical minerals trading block with its allies to counter China WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration wants to create a critical minerals trading bloc with its ...
IJR

ICE Protesters Create Road Blocks, Demanding ID for Travel

Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters flooded downtown Portland on Sunday, marching from City Hall to a federal immigration facility and temporarily shutting down major roads as tensions escalated into ...
Yahoo

Murphy signs law to create ‘safe zones’ to block ICE agents — but rejects 2 other bills

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Tuesday that he signed one controversial bill to limit immigration ...
ucdavis.edu

Creating Hallucination-free, Psychedelic-like Molecules by Shining Light on Life’s Basic Building Blocks

Researchers at the UC Davis Department of Chemistry and Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics have come up with a new technique to create candidate drugs that engage the serotonin receptor ...
Forbes

How Blockchain And AI Will Create The New Era Of Secure Infrastructure

Over the past decade, organizations have treated artificial intelligence and blockchain as two separate innovation tracks: AI accelerates intelligence and automation, and blockchain strengthens trust ...
Reuters

US could block asylum on public health grounds under Trump regulation

WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. could deny migrants access to asylum on the grounds they present a public health risk under a newly finalized regulation drafted during the COVID-19 pandemic in ...
American Banker

Congress must create legal clarity for decentralized blockchains

Banks are beginning to engage with decentralized finance. But until lawmakers create a foundation for allowing legally recognized entities like LLCs and nonprofits to govern these networks, adoption ...