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XREAL’s Android XR glasses will launch before the end of 2026, early access for devs

Alongside other Android XR announcements at Google I/O 2026, XREAL has confirmed that its Project Aura glasses will be launching...

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May 19 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
First AR Glasses Running Android XR Confirmed for 2026 Launch

XREAL today confirmed it’s launching Project Aura sometime this year, making them the first pair of AR glasses running Google’s Android XR operating system. Xreal and Google showcased Project Aura at Google I/O today, further confirming the wired AR glasses are set to launch globally in 2026. On stage, Project Aura was shown off running […]

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May 19 • 1:59 PM EDT • Technology • roadtovr.com
Google’s interactive world builder, Project Genie, will drop you in real places using Street View

Google just announced its world-exploring game, Project Genie, is getting a new feature that drops you in real-world locations, like...

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May 19 • 1:57 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Google flips Antigravity into an agentic dev suite, AI Studio app lands on Android

Google's Antigravity 2.0 is here to build and manage agents to let them loose on your latest projects, as AI Studio Android app arrives.

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May 19 • 1:56 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
A first (and second) look at the Android XR glasses launching this year

Three!! Android XR!!! glasses!!! this year!!!

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May 19 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Flag football moves toward NCAA championship status

Flag football took a big step this week, receiving a formal recommendation to become an NCAA championship sport. Its projected first championship will occur in spring 2028.

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May 19 • 11:33 AM EDT • Sports • ncaa.org
‘Foolish’ CSIRO job cuts will mean Australia unable to provide climate projections to global reports, scientists warn

Exclusive: Science agency is planning to sack a third of the team working on the national climate model, sources say

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May 19 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com
Scientists revise global warming projections, say small gains not enough

Both the old best and worst case future scenarios in the fight against climate change are being jettisoned by the world’s top scientists as they prepare the next series of huge United Nations reports.

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May 19 • 9:05 AM EDT • Science • apnews.com
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Wethersfield fourth graders make discoveries at science fair

***This article was written by Aundrea Serna, a participant of The Kewanee Voice Student Journalism Program, funded by the Harry Anderson Memorial Fund. Curiosity, creativity and perseverance were on full display during the fourth-grade science fair at Wethersfield Elementary School last Tuesday. Students presented projects across multiple branches of science, including physical science, life science,… Continue reading Wethersfield fourth graders make discoveries at science fair

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May 19 • 8:59 AM EDT • Science • kewaneevoice.com
Neogenyx CEO talks plans for new RNG business with $400M investment

The new company spun off from Ameresco, which retains a majority stake. The fresh infusion of capital will allow a biogas developer with a long history in the industry to more aggressively pursue its project pipeline.

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May 19 • 8:17 AM EDT • Business • wastedive.com
From ‘ghost sharks’ to ‘death ball’ sponges: Scientists find more than 1,100 wild and unusual ocean species

The Ocean Census project says scientists have discovered 1,121 previously unknown species in a single year. The rush is on to save them as risks to the world’s oceans multiply

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May 19 • 7:50 AM EDT • Science • cnn.com
She Was Finding Sources of Dangerous Water and Soil Pollution

Melanie Malone led a research project to identify and study contamination sites in Washington State. Then the E.P.A. canceled her grant.

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May 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
Macomb takes first step in the creation of a sports complex

The Macomb City Council approved sending a letter of intent to use STAR Bonds for a sports complex project.

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May 18 • 11:49 PM EDT • Sports • wgem.com
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Atlanta business owners feel impact of I-285's weekend construction shutdown

Some businesses in southwest Atlanta say the I-285 construction project left them with much slower business than the usual weekend.

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May 18 • 6:22 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Kudos to Cheer Club, College of Business faculty, Cybersecurity team and more

Becky Cottrell, Ph.D., Department of Social Work, and Bridget Arend, Ph.D., School of Education Becky Cottrell from the Department of Social Work and Bridget Arend, Ph.D., from the School of Education co-authored an article recently published in an international journal. Read the article. Biff Baker, Ph.D., College of Business Biff Baker, Ph.D., received a Best in Track award from the Society for Advancement of Management for research examining bureaucratic inefficiencies within Section 8 subsidized housing programs. The study focuses on how administrative delays and communication breakdowns can create housing instability for families and discourage landlord participation. It also offers recommendations to improve accountability and trust in public housing systems. Brendan Fry, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics and Statistics Brendan Fry, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, co-authored the article “Modeling the Impact of Venous Collapsibility on Retinal Oxygenation,” published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. The interdisciplinary research brought together scholars from the University of Delaware, Indiana University Indianapolis, McGill University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. Access the article. Bridget Arend, Ph.D., School of Education Bridget Arend, Ph.D., professor in the School of Education, co-published the book “Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning: A Resource for More Purposeful, Effective, and Enjoyable College Teaching, Second Edition” with James R. Davis. The book explores practical approaches to improving college teaching and student learning experiences. Buy the book. College of Business Faculty At the 2026 Western Decision Sciences Institute international conference, Sally Baalbaki-Yassine, Ph.D., Debora Gilliard, Ph.D., and David Lynn Hoffman, Ph.D., from the College of Business received the Best Case Study Paper Award for “Oreo: A Global Success Story in Brand Evolution and Market Leadership.” Lisa McVicker, Ph.D., and Apryl Brodersen, Ph.D., also had their paper, “Electronic Performance Monitoring: Employer Panacea or Legal Quagmire?” accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Leadership. Community Engagement Exchange Program Metropolitan State University of Denver was selected to host international Fellow Aleja Henao Espitia of Bogotá, Colombia through the Community Engagement Exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State. View Espitia's LinkedIn profile. David Varel, Ph.D., College of Letters, Arts and Sciences MSU Denver historian David Varel, Ph.D., has been awarded a 2026 ACLS Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies. The fellowship program supports outstanding scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, and selected just 63 scholars from more than 2,000 applicants this year. Varel’s project, “The Black Chicago School: Academic Activism in the Age of American Apartheid,” explores the work of Black scholars who challenged scientific racism, built alternative institutions and helped lay the foundation for the modern civil rights movement. The fellowship provides up to $60,000 to support full-time research and writing. Learn more about the fellowship. MSU Denver Office of Financial Aid Team Several MSU Denver employees were recognized for leadership and service during the Colorado Association of Financial Aid Administrators (CAFAA) conference held in May in Crested Butte. Don Holtzen, interim associate director of systems, chaired the conference and was recognized for his service as CAFAA conference chair and technology chair during the 2025-26 term. Holtzen also received the Postsecondary Institution Professional of the Year award, which recognizes financial-aid professionals who have made significant contributions to their institutions and to CAFAA. Tori Pacheco, associate director of Student Services, helped design décor and facilitate the conference and was recognized for her service as CAFAA secretary during the 2025-26 term. Destiny Candelaria, call center coordinator, served on the conference planning committee and presented on One Stops during the event. Michael Nguyen, executive director of Financial Aid and Scholarships, assisted as a CAFAA board member and was recognized for serving as president-elect during the 2025-26 term. Richard Balbag, program assistant I, received the Distinguished Support Staff Member of the Year award, honoring staff members who have made exceptional contributions to their financial-aid offices. Military Friendly Recognition Military Friendly has awarded MSU Denver Gold Status as a military-friendly university and ranked the University No. 7 nationally for military spouses. The recognition reflects MSU Denver’s strong support systems for veterans and military spouses, including transfer credit assistance and retention-focused resources. As of 2026, 1,050 military-connected students are enrolled at the University, advancing institutional priorities around serving veterans and supporting student retention. MSU Denver Cheer Club The MSU Denver Cheer Club earned third place in the 4-Year College Small Coed Intermediate division at the USA Spirit Nationals. Celebrate the win on Instagram. MSU Denver Cybersecurity Team An MSU Denver cybersecurity team earned first place in the Strategist category at the 2026 CYBER RECon National Competition hosted at Fort Meade, Maryland, by U.S. Cyber Command. Led by Jeffrey London, Ph.D., and undergraduate student Matthew Bopp, the team competed against universities and law schools nationwide with its 30-page legal analysis on cybersecurity and free speech titled “Freedom of Speech and MDM: Misinformation, Disinformation, and Malinformation.” The paper also earned Bopp a personal invitation to apply to the University of Maryland School of Law. MSU Denver Debate Team MSU Denver Debate won the 2026 Sierra Sustainability Summit hosted at Yosemite National Park in April. Students Kat Conte and Simon Bernhard bested teams from George Washington University, Gallaudet University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the University of San Francisco and Tennessee Tech in the modified present-and-defend style competition. Their proposal recommended adapting Colorado’s Keep Colorado Wild Pass model to support California state parks facing budget constraints. Learn about the summit. MSU Denver Women’s Golf MSU Denver Women’s Golf was represented on the national stage this month as junior Neige Dunn competed as an individual at the NCAA West Regional. She became the first Roadrunner in 10 years to qualify for NCAA Regionals as an individual. Get the details.

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May 18 • 5:59 PM EDT • Business • early-bird.msudenver.edu
Carley Bayer joins Essentia Health-32nd Avenue Clinic to practice neurology

The Essentia Health-32nd Avenue Clinic is excited to welcome Carley Bayer, an advanced practice registered nurse and certified nurse practitioner in neurology.

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May 18 • 5:46 PM EDT • Health • essentiahealth.org
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Ballad Health announces construction underway on Johnson City ER expansion project

Ballad Health says construction is now underway on a major expansion of the emergency department at Johnson City Medical Center.

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May 18 • 2:34 PM EDT • Health • wcyb.com
Trump eyes new White House lawn project that could reshape presidential travel

President Trump is weighing whether to install a helipad on the White House South Lawn to protect the grass from newer Marine One helicopter engines.

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May 18 • 1:21 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
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Meet Dr. Claw: The open-source AI assistant revolutionizing the research workflow

Lehigh University researchers have built the first “AI for Science” software tool designed to support the entire project workflow for research scientists. Dr. Claw is an open-source, full-stack AI research assistant that helps users refine ideas, conduct literature reviews, run experiments, draft and review papers, write grant proposals, and build presentations. It eliminates the need to toggle between specialized AI tools—such as deep research agents for source evaluation or code generators for data analysis—by unifying these capabilities within a single interface.

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May 18 • 12:28 PM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org
25 high-paying jobs that are projected to grow a lot

Software developers had a median annual pay of $135,980 in 2025, and employment was projected to increase by 267,700 from 2024 to 2034.

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May 18 • 12:15 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Dignity Health Opening Medical Campus At Site Of New Cardinals Headquarters

Project will be 300,000 square feet, creating 700 medical and support positions

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May 18 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • azcardinals.com
How to Encourage Mental Health Conversations With Your Teen

Psychologist Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble, founder of The AAKOMA Project, joins TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and guest co-host Carson Daly to share tips from her new book called “Rise and Thrive: A Mental Health Workbook for Youth and for the Young Person Inside All of Us.” She shares how to identity if your child is struggling, ways to encourage conversation, and what to do if someone is experiencing a mental crisis.

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May 18 • 11:06 AM EDT • Health • today.com
New MatterChat Model Helps AI to ‘See’ the Language of Science

From writing emails to generating computer code, much of the artificial intelligence prevalent in our daily lives has succeeded by mastering one domain: text. However, this leaves a major blind spot in the physical sciences, where models depend on the high-resolution, three-dimensional data of the physical world, like the intricate lattice of atoms in a crystal. Delivering on the promise of using AI for science requires teaching these data-driven text models to seamlessly “talk to” physics-based models. Now, a new AI framework from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), called MatterChat, solves this problem by creating a specialized “bridge.” It connects the conversational power of a Large Language Model (LLM) with a physics-based AI that models “interatomic potentials”: the complex physical forces between atoms. The resulting system already significantly outperforms general-purpose AI tools like GPT-4 at predicting material properties, and the team hopes it can accelerate scientific discovery by serving as a robust research partner that provides grounded insights and generates step-by-step instructions for synthesizing novel materials. A paper describing this work was recently published in Nature Machine Intelligence. “Traditional simulations can provide the physical rigor required for materials science, yet their computational cost remains prohibitive for high-throughput screening. Conversely, while LLMs excel at rapid knowledge synthesis, they inherently lack the ‘structural vision’ to interpret materials directly from their underlying atomic coordinates,” said Yingheng Tang, a postdoctoral researcher in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Math and Computational Research Division (AMCR) and lead author on the paper. “MatterChat was built to solve this dilemma, empowering LLMs with a structural ‘vision’ that allows researchers to leverage their full potential for solving complex, real-world materials challenges.” Empowering language models to solve complex challenges in materials science To build MatterChat, the Berkeley Lab team drew inspiration from technologies like Vision Question Answering (VQA) and Text-to-Image (T2I) generation. In these tasks, AI must translate high-level text concepts into visual images, or vice versa. Doing so requires developers to build tools that “bridge” two fundamentally different forms of data. The researchers adapted this concept to the physical sciences. With MatterChat, they created a “bridge model” that successfully connects an LLM’s general knowledge with the deep understanding of the atomic-scale world encoded in scientific interatomic potentials. Until now, researchers using LLMs to solve materials problems usually had to feed them raw data files as if they were just strings of text. It’s like asking an AI to understand a complex 3D engine based only on a parts list: the LLM can read the names, but it can’t “see” how the atoms fit together in space. MatterChat solves this by training a specialized AI bridge model, pre-trained on millions of crystal structures and an LLM, to align the LLM’s representation of the world with the interatomic potential’s representation of the world. The bridge model can translate physical insights into a format the LLM can actually understand. By giving the LLM these “scientific eyes”— a scientific “inductive bias” in the terminology of AI — the Berkeley Lab team has transformed it into a robust research tool capable of providing grounded scientific insights into complex materials challenges, such as predicting thermal stability or analyzing electronic band gaps. “We think of atoms as living in a physical space, but from a machine learning perspective, they are just vectors living in some very non-trivially structured manifold in a high-dimensional Euclidean space; and, of course, the same is true for the sentences and paragraphs that we use to express our ideas about those atoms,” said co-author Michael Mahoney, Berkeley Lab’s Scientific Data Division (SDD) AI Initiative Research Lead. “The bridge model basically gets those two structures to ‘talk with’ each other.” As a proof-of-concept of this general approach, the team trained their bridge model on a dataset curated by pairing nearly 143,000 stable atomic structures from the Materials Project with their corresponding physical properties. This training data was automatically assembled using the Materials Project’s API and deliberately enriched with properties fundamental to microelectronics design — like formation energy and bandgap — allowing MatterChat to learn the complex patterns connecting a material’s atomic blueprint to its functional performance. To validate their model, the researchers benchmarked MatterChat against a suite of other AI systems, from general-purpose LLMs to other specialized scientific AI methods. The results show that MatterChat consistently outperformed its competitors across a range of tasks. The model was more accurate in classifying material types and demonstrated superior precision in predicting numerical properties. For example, it excelled at predicting a material’s bandgap, a property critical for designing new electronics from high-capacity energy storage to next-generation computer chips. “Our design is significantly more efficient because we don’t have to build a massive AI model from the ground up,” said co-author Zhi (Jackie) Yao, a research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s AMCR. “Instead, we take two powerful, pre-trained models — a structural encoder for materials physics and an open-source LLM — and use them off-the-shelf. The only component we actually train is the lightweight ‘bridge model’ that translates between them. It’s the difference between building an entire car factory and simply designing a smart adapter that connects a world-class engine to a world-class navigation system. This approach is not only computationally efficient, but also makes the system modular, so we can easily upgrade components or adapt the bridge for other scientific domains in the future.” Crucially, this modular design highlights exactly how institutions like Berkeley Lab and the Department of Energy are carving out a highly valuable niche in the booming AI landscape. Rather than competing with Silicon Valley tech giants to build ever-larger language models from scratch, the lab is focusing on the specialized connective tissue that makes commercial AI useful for hardcore science. Because the bridge model approach underlying MatterChat is forward-compatible, it is perfectly positioned to leverage these parallel tracks of innovation. As Mahoney pointed out, “We expect that industry will continue to develop improved LLMs, and we expect domain scientists and facilities will continue to generate new data. An important part of scientific machine learning is not simply to solve problems on today’s data, but instead to develop general methods that will be forward-compatible with orders of magnitude more data, whether from scientific domains or from LLMs.” According to Yao, the MatterChat project, which was initially developed and enhanced with funding from a Berkeley Lab Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) Program, will now expand its capabilities. In a collaboration with Fermilab, MatterChat is already contributing to a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission project — called Accelerating eXtreme Environment Specs-to-Silicon (AXESS) — that aims to speed up the development of next-generation, high-speed, radiation-hardened detectors for challenging particle physics experiments by using advanced 3D integrated circuits (chiplets) and AI-driven data analysis. In addition to the LDRD support, the team also credits supercomputing resources at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), located at Berkeley Lab, with MatterChat’s success. “We are incredibly grateful to NERSC; this research simply would not have happened without access to the Perlmutter supercomputer through their AI for Science program,” said Tang. Wenbin Xu, a NERSC postdoctoral fellow at the time, was also a major co-author of the work, as was Benjamin Erichson, a research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s SDD, highlighting the benefits of AMCR-SDD collaboration on AI for science. ### Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is committed to groundbreaking research focused on discovery science and solutions for abundant and reliable energy supplies. The lab’s expertise spans materials, chemistry, physics, biology, earth and environmental science, mathematics, and computing. Researchers from around the world rely on the lab’s world-class scientific facilities for their own pioneering research. Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest problems are best addressed by teams, Berkeley Lab and its scientists have been recognized with 17 Nobel Prizes. Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.

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May 18 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • newscenter.lbl.gov
SBJ ranks the 50 Best Sports Business Cities

It’s all about the ATL as SBJ’s fourth annual Best Sports Business Cities™ project gives Atlanta the No. 1 spot among 50 ranked markets.

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May 18 • 6:53 AM EDT • Business • sportsbusinessjournal.com
‘It’s not supposed to look like you’re going to dive in’: Historians criticize Trump’s Reflecting Pool makeover as group sues

Workers with boots dyed an “American Flag Blue” have painted over about two-thirds of the iconic Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, covering the dull gray with bright azure following a directive by President Donald Trump to expedite the pace of the project.

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May 18 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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NVIDIA Reflex 2 and AMD Anti-Lag 2 Can Now Run on Any GPU Under Linux

According to a new open-source project called low_latency_layer, Linux gamers using NVIDIA, AMD, or Intel graphics cards will experience low-latency gaming technologies like NVIDIA Reflex 2 or AMD Anti-Lag 2, regardless of their platform. The latest low_latency_layer from Korthos Software is a Vulka...

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May 18 • 1:36 AM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com
Williamston High School students showcase math, science projects

The school’s Math and Science Academy held its research and technology showcase on Sunday.

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May 18 • 12:23 AM EDT • Science • wilx.com
Legislation to stop funding for Rochester sports complex will not advance

Rep. Greg Davids (R-Preston), the only Republican co-author on the bill, said there was a “real problem” in determining how the bill could be put together to stop the project.

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May 17 • 8:14 PM EDT • Sports • kttc.com
I started a publishing business outside my day job

Tse Hao Guang, a researcher and writer from Singapore, started a side project publishing literary pamphlets that spotlight emerging writers' works.

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May 17 • 8:08 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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DeerTV Reports Surge in Demand for Outdoor TV Enclosures Ahead of Summer 2026 Outdoor Entertainment Boom

Changan, China--(Newsfile Corp. - May 18, 2026) - DeerTV, a manufacturer of weatherproof outdoor TV and projector protection systems, is...

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May 17 • 8:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • newsfilecorp.com
UNC basketball expected to get visit from top five recruit

Michael Malone and the UNC basketball program are projected to get a visit from this top five player.

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May 17 • 7:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Women in Science Event Heads to The Lyric

Attend the Women in Science Event at The Lyric to watch 'The Bearded Lady Project' and engage in discussion with experts.

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May 17 • 7:00 PM EDT • Science • northfortynews.com
Cruise ship outbreaks fail to scare off travelers ahead of busy summer season

Despite recent hantavirus and norovirus outbreaks, cruise demand remains strong, experts say, with over 38 million ocean cruise passengers projected this year.

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May 17 • 4:52 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Water Science, Community Conservation Efforts Hold Key To India’s Future: Experts

Nagpur: Padma awardees and experts said that water conservation cannot succeed through infrastructure projects alone and requires a deeper understanding of water science, grassroots participation and stronger public awareness.

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May 17 • 4:27 PM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Lexington business owner donating Railbird parking proceeds to charity

Nick Cooper owns The Toy Factory car shop on Curry Avenue. He also founded Project Kids 1st, a nonprofit organization.

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May 17 • 3:46 PM EDT • Business • wkyt.com
Splitgate Developer Making Titanfall Successor Called 'Empulse'

Titanfall fans may watch another finger curl on the monkey’s paw when 1047 Games’ next project is revealed

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May 17 • 2:52 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Are lawmakers or unelected staff making decisions on the Capitol Annex Project?

Since the Capitol Annex Project began in 2018, there has not been a single lawmaker consistently overseeing the construction.

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May 17 • 11:25 AM EDT • Politics • kcra.com
Open-Source "low_latency_layer" Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux

A new open-source project called low_latency_layer is an implicit Vulkan layer that enables AMD Anti-Lag 2 and NVIDIA Reflex 2 to reportedly work in a hardware-agnostic manner so that AMD and Intel graphics cards can both enjoy Reflex or Anti-Lag 2 working on non-AMD graphics cards as well.

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May 17 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • phoronix.com
The World’s Forests Won’t Be Saved by Science Alone: We Need Better Communication

Research tells us that we need sustainable forest practices. But how does this knowledge lead to action?

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May 17 • 7:30 AM EDT • Science • goodmenproject.com
Northwestern Students Present Chicken Feed Project At International Science Fair

Junior Allie Hoekman and Sophomore Emily Brick will be taking their project, "Enhancing Chicken Productivity Using Insect Based Protein Sources,” to the

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May 17 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • aberdeeninsider.com
Projecting Texas A&M's post-spring special teams depth chart

Here is Aggies Wire's final post-spring depth chart projections, focused on a special teams unit that features several new faces.

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May 17 • 6:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Business Bulletin: Almost Home honors; Foodbank benefits; St. Johns celebrates centennial

Catch up on local business awards, milestones and projects.

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May 17 • 1:00 AM EDT • Business • stltoday.com
Why Arizona Democrats are building a Project 2025-style policy blueprint

U.S. Reps. Yassamin Ansari and Adelita Grijalva are taking a lesson from President Donald Trump and Project 2025.

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May 17 • 12:42 AM EDT • Politics • abc15.com
WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreaks in Congo and Uganda

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has declared the Ebola disease outbreaks in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern after more than 300 suspected cases and 88 deaths.

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May 17 • 12:42 AM EDT • Health • newsday.com
China launches new war on deserts with technology tested on far side of the moon

Projects meant to help Xinjiang region build ecological barrier to protect its arable land from erosion and desertification.

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May 17 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • scmp.com
Letlow, Fleming advance to runoff in Louisiana GOP Senate primary, CBS News projects

Incumbent GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, who had occasionally broken with the Trump administration, did not advance to the runoff, CBS News projected.

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May 16 • 10:52 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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I-285 shutdown impacts SW Atlanta businesses during construction project: ‘It’s been very slow’

A two-mile stretch is shut down for the weekend.

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May 16 • 9:57 PM EDT • Business • wsbtv.com
I-285 shutdown impacts SW Atlanta businesses during construction project: ‘It’s been very slow’

GDOT shut down a two-mile stretch of I-285 in both directions between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Cascade Road from Friday night through Monday morning.

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May 16 • 9:57 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Reno council to consider police chief confirmation, $266M water project and live entertainment ordinance

Reno's independent, online news and events source. Established in 2009.

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May 16 • 7:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • thisisreno.com
Now What? With Carbon Pricing Eroded and Pipeline Politics Advancing, Here Are the Pathways for Climate Success

At the end of a whirlwind week of news on carbon pricing and electricity strategy, capping a madcap year of pretty much non-stop, dramatic change, the word across much of Canada’s climate and energy transition community is that climate policy in this country has been shredded. Eviscerated. Hit with a sledgehammer by policy rollbacks that have pushed the country’s 2050 net zero target “well out of reach”. That means it’s never been more important to look for the rays of hope and glimmers of possibility. To glimpse the seeds of the next set of strategies to get Canada’s climate pollution under control and the country into the accelerating global dash away from fossil fuels. And then, once we’ve spotted those possibilities, get on with the hard, day-to-day slog of trying to make them a reality. Nothing takes away from the frustration and the deep disappointment so many climate and energy hawks are expressing, the sense of betrayal by the author of Value(s) and the former UN special envoy for climate action and finance. But we knew two things as the week drew to a close. We’re looking at the world as it most definitely is. And we don’t get to give up finding the pathways to confront climate change and deliver faster, deeper carbon cuts that leave no one else behind. So really, the first question we all have to ask ourselves is: What’s next? Subscribe All the Oxygen in the Room The outpouring of anger and grief over the carbon pricing deal between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been absolutely understandable. So much of the climate community poured years, more than a decade, into dragging the current federal pricing regime across the finish line, then defending it from a deluge of three-syllable rhymes after the Trudeau government proved utterly incapable of delivering its own message. The policy foisted on us by neo-classical economists took up all the oxygen in the room, burned through years of climate response time that we won’t get back, while cornering climate hawks into the position that the best response to the crisis of our lifetimes is a new tax…in an era of historic anti-tax sentiment. I mean, really—what could possibly have gone wrong? Against that history, let’s appreciate columnist Max Fawcett’s point that even a modest carbon pricing agreement with a government as off-the-wall libertarian/conspiracist as Danielle Smith’s—those adjectives are mine, not Max’s—is a win worth savouring (as long as Smith keeps her promises for a change). But part of living in the world as it is (no, I’m not letting that go) is to be clear-headed about what we can and can’t control. And one thing we get to decide, after seeing this week’s carbon price festivities take up all the oxygen yet again, is whether we want to keep letting that happen. Particularly when success down that road depends on a factor that no one with a climate agenda can control or influence—a provincial carbon pricing mechanism that has been manipulated and eroded beyond its lowest possible denominator. Thankfully, that’s not the way it has to go. Not when we have so many other powerful, practical tools at our disposal, including the ones still available to us through this abominable Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Canada and Alberta. Tools In Our Toolbox When I started roughing out this list, I didn’t expect it to grow to nearly a dozen bullet points. It’s probably still incomplete. Some of the greatest hits in today’s climate solutions toolbox include: • No Carbon Capture, No Pipeline: On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney explicitly stated that there’s been no change to the MOU provision that there will be no West Coast pipeline without an industry commitment to build its massive, $16.5-billion carbon capture and storage (CCUS) hub in Northern Alberta, and vice versa. The two megaprojects were joined at the hip when the MOU was signed Nov. 27, and the implementation agreement this week affirmed that they still are. A parade of independent analysts have spent years pointing to the economic and technical flaws in CCUS, while the industry kept postponing its investment decision until it could arm-twist the government for more “clarity” (by which it meant even more lavish taxpayer subsidies) on the project. Now the industry itself is running away from the CCUS hub and insisting the pipeline should proceed without it, but Carney doesn’t seem to be budging from a central tenet of the MOU to which Smith has signed on. • No Subsidies, No Investors: Climate analysts and advocates have quite rightly been hammering away at Carney and his team, insisting that any new capacity the industry wants to build must proceed without new subsidies. The government has responded with a growing collection of funding and financing mechanisms for the very wide menu of industrial development and nation-building projects they say they want to take on, and that menu always includes fossil fuel infrastructure. But it’s hard to see how even the combined fiscal clout of the federal and supportive provincial governments will deliver the financial backing private investors would need when the business case for new fossil fuel development is evaporating before their eyes. Particularly when… • No Market, No Demand, No Investors: As our friend Markham Hislop at Energi Media (our apparently sleepless friend, given the massive volume of great material he’s been churning out) points out this morning, the biggest vulnerability in any pipeline deal is the assumption that Asian buyers will want the oil or liquefied natural ga that our fossil industry is so keen to send them. Hislop writes in part: Ottawa and Alberta are effectively betting that countries like China and India will continue increasing oil imports for decades as their economies grow and energy consumption rises. That assumption underpins the entire economic rationale for expanding oil sands production and building billions of dollars in new export infrastructure. But Asian energy systems are changing rapidly… China, India, South Korea, and other major hydrocarbon importers are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars into electricity systems built around wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, hydro, and expanded transmission infrastructure. Domestic “energy sovereignty” is increasingly replacing the old energy-security model based on stable oil and gas imports. Those investments are expected to sharply slow oil demand growth and eventually reverse it, even as overall energy consumption continues rising. There are also refining constraints. Many Asian refineries and petrochemical complexes are already optimized to process discounted heavy crude from the Middle East and Latin America. That raises serious questions about how much additional Canadian bitumen Asian markets can absorb at profitable prices. Small wonder that there’s still no private sector investor for the project, despite Smith’s government desperately beating the bushes to put together a deal. For now, Alberta is acting as proponent and covering early start-up costs for a pitch to the federal Major Projects Office, which could actually turn into the next tough hurdle for Smith and her pipeline to jump. • Canada Day Looms: How ironic that Canada’s birthday this year could become a major chokepoint for the provincial premier who’s been working so diligently to tear the country apart! The July 1 target date for Alberta’s pipeline proposal is baked into the MOU, was reaffirmed by the implementation plan, but it hadn’t dawned on me that it cuts both ways. As one very smart colleague wrote in an email yesterday, “they’ve thrown the ball into Alberta’s court to get the project proposal on the table really quickly and to have to do a whole pile of work to put together a massive, complicated project that would typically take years to assemble, and they’ve given them weeks to do it.” That makes July 1 a looming deadline that Smith won’t be able to run away from politically, especially with the separatists in her party and her caucus breathing down her neck. (See previous ref to off-the-wall.) But if Alberta comes in with a sloppy, incomplete submission, even after Carney bent over backwards to simplify the application process and the rules that govern it, it may be harder for the province or the industry to blame Ottawa and insist on the faster process they claim their investors are demanding. (Oh, wait—which investors would those be??) • We’ll See You In Court (Then We’ll See You Again): If Carney did cave, that would be just one more reason for Indigenous and other affected communities to take the government and the process to court—Just as Alberta First Nations did, successfully, in response to Smith’s half-baked separation referendum. Veterans of the Harper era have been warning that a shoddy process around fossil fuel infrastructure or other major projects will be a recipe for the very delays that process seeks to avoid. And now more than ever, with renewable energy and energy storage eating fossil fuels’ lunch in import markets around the world, a delayed pipeline or LNG terminal may be as good as a cancelled one. • Charged Up, Ready to Go: With its goal of doubling Canada’s electricity supply to meet a doubling of demand by 2050, the national electricity strategy that Carney unveiled Thursday has a lot to like. With its explicit language about speeding the shift from fuels to more efficient and affordable electricity, global investment and deployment patterns that already favour that shift, an emerging bidirectional power grid, the role of front-line options like rooftop solar and heat pumps, the emergence of electric vehicles as behind-the-meter energy storage, and the domestic jobs and manufacturing to make it all happen, the document doubles down on the essential cornerstone of a faster shift off fossil fuels. The strategy envisions a more prominent role for gas and nuclear power. But some of those provisions were already in the Clean Electricity Regulations that climate hawks are now fighting so hard to defend, inserted as a compromise in a futile attempt to mollify the industry and its political representatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan. But once again, gas will be a tougher sell when it’s more expensive and now so much more unpredictable than the clean alternatives. The new nuclear technologies are still speculative and deeply vulnerable to cost overruns. Increasingly, utilities, developers, and investors know it. Carney declared Thursday that “it doesn’t do us good to be sitting in court all the time with provinces. It doesn’t do us good to be talking past each other. What does do us good is to come together with specific projects.” There are no guarantees, but so much of the language and narrative-building in the electricity strategy suggests the lion’s share of those projects will be renewable. • The Party Has Already Started: The electricity strategy only rarely digs down to specific projects, but provinces representing three-quarters of Canada’s population are already embracing a faster transition. Hydro-Québec is working on a 10-year, $185-billion renewable energy and grid buildout by 2035. Ontario recently brought 10 provinces and territories together in a National Energy Corridor Agreement to boost interprovincial and -territorial transmission infrastructure. And the MOU implementation agreement commits Alberta to facilitate investment in renewable energy projects, a big step back from its continuing, punitive restrictions on renewables development. The electricity strategy envisions much of the financing and infrastructure that will be needed to pull those advances together into an integrated whole. • Delivering on Affordability: The MOU implementation plan has little or nothing to say about affordability (are you surprised?), but the electricity strategy does, with a top-line pledge to reduce home energy costs for seven out of 10 Canadian households by 2050, a total saving of $15 billion across the board. It’s just a start, but it puts affordability on the government’s narrative map. If they’re serious and deliberate about patching together a least-cost energy strategy, it’ll have little if any room for oil, gas, or nuclear—not with powerful evidence, for example, that electricity prices are higher when those prices are set by gas. • Smith Proves that Canada Works: By signing a deal that makes it harder to claim the federal government is blocking a new pipeline, Smith has helped prove Carney’s constant anti-separatist refrain that “Canada works”—incurring the rage, no doubt, of her own political base. Canada also needs to work for anyone who depends on a clean environment, healthy and thriving ecosystems, and safe, stable climate. But with Smith and her separatist constituents setting up as a fifth column for annexation by Donald Trump’s United States, let’s set aside any notion that 51st state status for Canada is a recipe for anything other than climate disaster (and so much else). Resisting and withstanding Trump (just 170 more sleeps until mid-term elections, which is a damn sight better than the 730 we started with) doesn’t mean a free pass for a pipeline, but we can still appreciate it that keeping Canada whole and sovereign is still Carney’s Job One. • The Words Not Spoken: Apart from a commitment to export a million barrels of “low-emission” Alberta bitumen per day (memo to Smith and Carney: You realize that that’s less than the industry is already exporting??), the MOU implementation plan says nothing about the international trade and economic sovereignty deals that Carney has been travelling the world to negotiate. It didn’t have to. Carney doesn’t need permission from Danielle Smith, her American enablers, or her separatist allies to continue building the alliances that will ratchet down our economic dependency on our unstable, unreliable neighbour to the south. But every connection he builds with countries outside North America helps align our economy and our future with a faster shift off fossil fuels. Little if any of this was on our bingo cards a year or two ago. But it’s the pathway that has opened up to us. And if it gives Canada any climate or energy gains at all in an era still dominated by Trump and his increasingly ridiculous tariffs, his loutish trade negotiations and his continuing annexation threats, we have to take the wins. Not least because they’ll be the point of departure for what we can achieve in 2027, 2029, and beyond, as Trump’s grip and this era begin to loosen and then fade. What is Carney Doing? If this line of thought is right—and it’s a possibility, not a prediction—it means that Carney’s actions and decisions are largely about buying time. Time for Trump’s power to wane. Time for Alberta’s separatist/conspiracist virus to spread, mutate, die out, or at least die back, with help from a vaccine of federal steadiness and calm (appropriate enough, for a movement populated largely by vaccine deniers) that no conspiracy theory can dismiss. And time for the government’s trade and investment agenda to deliver results—even knowing that some of those results will bring impacts that front-line communities will not and should not accept. In the immediate moment, none of this changes the way the wider climate community has to respond, from campaigners to investors to front-line practitioners. All of our voices are still essential. But those voices will be stronger and more confident if we have a clearer sense of the brutal game we’ve been pulled into, and a plausible path (or two it three) for playing it to the win we need. This conversation also underscores our biggest task for the remaining years of what was supposed to be the “decisive” decade for climate response: if we can shift the energy narrative in Canada, make it a mainstream view that the country’s preoccupation with oil and gas has us falling farther behind a changing world, we’ll see far better results in the 2030s and beyond. For many veteran climate advocates, taking on that part of the fight will begin with recognizing that most of our friends and family, neighbours and colleagues already understand that climate change is real and right in front of us: they’re looking away and staying silent because they don’t have what climate communicator Katharine Hayhoe calls “efficacy”. As Hayhoe recently pointed out in a feature interview with The Energy Mix, it amounts to science denial to keep hammering away at the dire news about global warming without also helping audiences understand what they can do about it, with multiple studies telling us why that won’t work. Far better to open those conversations with the dominant crises like energy security, food security, emergency preparedness and business continuity, affordability, and financial security that have knocked climate change far lower on the list of public priorities, and will likely keep it there. We Knew This Would Happen Climate hawks have always known this day would come. For decades, we warned that everyone had to pay attention to climate change right now, because it would be much tougher to respond once the crisis itself started affecting our daily lives. We were right, and here we are. But now, thanks to decades of hard work, communities and countries have an alternative to doubling down on fossil fuels. “In 10 years everyone will have ‘always known’ that solar and batteries were going to win,” Morgan Solar Executive Chair Mike Andrade writes on LinkedIn. With the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz roiling energy priorities around the world, Canada and the United States are among the shrinking number of countries that are still very keen on fossil fuel development. Understanding that gap is a first, essential step in spotting the opportunities ahead, and averting the deep economic as well as environmental and social risk we face if we don’t seize them. Thanks for reading The Energy Mix Weekender! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribe Mitchell Beer traces his background in renewable energy and energy efficiency back to 1977, in climate change to 1997. Now he and the rest of the Energy Mix team scan 1,200 news headlines a week to pull together The Energy Mix and The Energy Mix Weekender. Chart of the Week BYD Eyes 20 Dealership Locations After Canada Greenlights Chinese EV Imports ‘Sledgehammer’ Carbon Price Deal Boosts Emissions by 230Mt, Aims for Fall 2027 Pipeline Approval ‘Worse Than Harper’: Regulatory Rollback Would Stop Canada from Assessing Project Impacts, Critics Warn Electricity Strategy Aims for Doubling by 2050, Allows ‘Flexibility’ for Gas Power Plants Opposition Mounts as O’Leary’s Data Centre Approved in Drought-Stricken Utah Diluted Carbon Price Misses ‘Reality of the World We’re In’, Could Impede Diversified Trade: Climate Institute $200B in Clean Energy Investment Will Need On-Time Delivery, Reliable Policies, Trade Association Says ‘Sovereign Pipeline’: CEO Pitches to Keep Trans Mountain in Government Hands What a Supercharged El Niño Could Mean for Canada Canada’s future is electric, and here’s how a power grid superhighway would get us there (Toronto Star) The Perilous Waters of Hecate Strait (Globe and Mail) Saudi Aramco profits jump despite conflict in Middle East (The Guardian) Farmers confront rising cost of fertilizer and fuel as spring seeding under way (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Clarkson forecasts 24% decline in offshore oil, gas capital expenditures (Oil & Gas Journal) Pipe Dreams: How Oil and Gas Fail to Deliver Economic Development in Africa (Oil Change International) Developing countries must hold the pen to script the fossil fuel transition (Climate Home News) Iran war threatens the dream of a post-oil economy in the Gulf (Washington Post) U.S. Oil, Gas Work Force Hits Lowest Level Since 2022 (Rigzone) Why Polestar Is Doubling Down on Net Zero as Rivals Pull Back on EVs (Bloomberg) Why this Michigan utility plans to sell its hydro dams for $13 (E&E News/Politico) Levees can no longer save New Orleans (Vox)

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Infrastructure improvements coming to Sioux Falls VA Health Care System

Projects happening in the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2026 at the Sioux Falls Health Care System include electronic health record infrastructure upgrades and kitchen and cafe renovations.

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New inFAMOUS PS5 Project Rumours Give Fans Fresh Hope

Might not be made by Sucker Punch

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Projecting the Boston Celtics moves for the 2026 NBA offseason

Will the team be making minor moves around the margins to change the structure of the ball club? Or could bigger trades be coming down the pike?

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PGA Championship: Michael Block, after missing the cut, has 'no doubt' he will make a return to the major

Michael Block posted a 5-over 75 on Friday and fell outside the projected cutline at Aronimink.

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Blue whale skeleton will soon be on display at Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport

A blue whale skeleton is being assembled at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. The project is the culmination of more than 10 years of effort.

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Feature: Moore ’26 Keeps Busy with Double Science Major and Music

Luke Moore ’26 came to Kansas Wesleyan on a music scholarship. He’s graduating this weekend (May 16) with a double major in Chemistry and Physics. He’s as active on the music side as he is with his science activities — he’s played the cello for 10 years, including four years at Kansas Wesleyan. It’s common, he said, for scientists and musicians to share those interests. “I’ve spoken to plenty of musicians who would have done science if they weren’t musicians, and I’ve talked to plenty of scientists who would have done music if they weren’t scientists,” Mooresaid. He played the cello in the string orchestra, which he’s done since his first year, and as a junior and senior, sang in the Philharmonic Choir as a bass. He hadn’t sung in a choir since middle schoolin Garden City, but he found he really enjoys that aspect of his college career. Also as a junior, Moore helped re-activate the STEM Club as vice president. For two years, he helped build the club’s battlebot. Last year the bot came home from battles in Kansas City in pieces, lots of pieces. This year it came home with the first-place trophy. He’s helped make frozen nitrogen ice cream at Homecoming and other events and helped organize the STEM Club’s first gingerbread house competition for the holidays. Willing to get his hands – and face – dirty for science, he encouraged fellow musicians and scientists to smash him in the face with whipped cream pies on Pi Day (March 14) as a fundraiser for the STEM Club. His capstone project involved developing a metallic organic framework (MOF) that takes a methylene blue dye out of water. “I’m proud that I was able to design this project, and I was proud that I did end up making the MOF,” Moore said. The professors and attitudes at KWU have made all this possible. “I don’t actually have time for everything,” Moore said. “I have to prioritize things. Things inevitably fall through the cracks, but it’s hard for me to choose one over the other, because I like a lot of things. And I don’t want to not do music, and I don’t want to not do science.” Moore said that Kansas Wesleyan, as a smaller university, gives students the opportunity to try things. “If I were to want to be in a music ensemble, it would probably be a bit harder in a larger school. One nice thing about this school is that everyone’s involved in something,” he said. “Professors know that you have other things going on, and they are flexible and understanding.” Moore has applied to grad schools, with an goal of earning his Ph.D. and landing at a university big enough to allow for a small research team that also gives him an opportunity to teach. He’s off to a good start. Moore is receiving the award for Outstanding Research in the Math, Physics and Computer Studies Department at Commencement this year. Story by Jean Kozubowski

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Thousands of Latinos could lose health coverage in Florida. Here's why

More than 4 million Latinos are projected to lose their health insurance over the next ten years in the U.S., according to a new report.

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Opinion: Anchorage must stop treating small businesses like major developments

If city leaders want more local businesses, they should start by making low-impact projects faster, clearer and less financially punishing.

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14 Cool Mini Gadgets You Can Find On Amazon

From portable projectors to pocket-sized tools and speakers, these budget gadgets pack surprising functionality into their diminutive designs.

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New movies to watch this weekend: See 'Obsession' in theaters, rent 'Project Hail Mary,' stream 'Marty: Life is Short' on Netflix

The "Top Gun" films head back to theaters, while Ryan Gosling's latest hit heads to home screens.

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Talking Business with Becky Bradley: Quiet fixes, big results across the Lehigh Valley

These projects in Lehigh Valley’s transportation plan may have smaller price tags, but will have huge impacts.

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Inaugural Mind-Body Science and Health lecture planned

The inaugural Distinguished Lectureship in Mind-Body Science and Health will be delivered by Wendy Berry Mendes, Yale University professor of psychology, on May 28 at the Mellon Institute. Mendes will discuss “Affect Contagion: Physiologic Synchrony among Strangers and Close Others,” from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Mellon Institute Auditorium. The lectureship is sponsored by the Pittsburgh Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Research Network, a joint project of Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University, and Pitt’s Center for Mind-Body Science and Health. RSVP as soon as possible to help plan for a reception following the lecture. This is a public event. Students, post-docs, and early-stage investigators are especially encouraged to attend.

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Michigan Health Department releases findings about project on contaminants in firefighters’ blood

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has released findings from a project to determine concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in blood of Michigan firefighters.

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Moss Point holds community forum for sports complex project feedback

On Thursday, Moss Point community members and leaders attended a meeting at City Hall to discuss community concerns over the city’s plans for a sports complex.

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East Harlem businesses worry Second Avenue subway project is steering away customers
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Mishicot High School celebrating sports, arts projects

Mishicot High School held a ribbon cutting for its newly completed baseball and softball concessions stand and broke ground on its upcoming PAC and commons.

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Henry Ford Health marks major milestone in $2.2B Detroit campus expansion project

Henry Ford Health celebrated a topping-out ceremony for its $2.2B Destination Grand expansion in Detroit.

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University at Albany opens up campus, and science exploration, to district students

The semester may be over at the University at Albany but the campus is still buzzing with student learning – it just may not be the students you expect. Junior Falcon scientists from North Albany Middle School, Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School and William S. Hackett Middle School presented their experiments, and findings, to professors and graduate students at UAlbany’s Emerging Technology and Entrepreneurship (ETEC) Complex on Thursday. After the science fair, the sixth and seventh-graders explored ETEC – which houses researchers, educators and entrepreneurs – and the tour was followed by a discussion with a UAlbany atmospheric science researcher and the awards ceremony. Most will likely recognize one of the science fair judges – Damian participated in the project assessments and hopefully recruited some future Great Danes!

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Nintendo Switch Online adds five more Classics for May

Nintendo has revealed the next set of Classics coming to its Switch Online + Expansion Pass service, and it's a bit of a treat for Virtual Boy fans.

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This Nonprofit Trains Hikers to Gather Data in Places Scientists Can't Go

Science, family, and hiking come together in American Scientists, a growing nonprofit that trains outdoor volunteers to gather data for research projects.

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Essentia Health hosting free heart failure symposium

It’s estimated that more than six million adults in the United States are living with heart failure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Forza Horizon 6 Runs Like A Next-Gen Showcase On Top-End PCs, And Xbox’s Project Helix Could Inherit It All

Forza Horizon 6 pushes the technical boundaries of racing games, with RTGI and advanced reflections providing a clear look at the future of next-gen hardware

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Michigan State University opens upgraded plant science greenhouses

Michigan State University’s Plant Science Greenhouses are set to open Thursday following a two-year construction project.

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Mott Road Science Fair extends learning beyond the classroom - Fayetteville-Manlius CSD

Elementary students at Mott Road were recently challenged to explore new topics and ideas. The project was developed by the school’s Site-Based Team, which is composed of teachers, parents, administrative assistants, and administrators. “This year, we have focused on creating opportunities for students to extend their learning beyond the classroom while engaging their families,” shared

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Review: Forza Horizon 6: PC Ray Tracing Looks Great - A Hint Of The Project Helix Port To Come?

The PC and Xbox Series X|S versions under the microscope.

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Three ways Argonne celebrated science to save the world through “Project Hail Mary” and pop culture

Argonne marks the release of "Project Hail Mary" with three public events linking the film's science to real research — reaching fans at a theater, online and at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo.

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Seaport Entertainment Group and the Team Behind Public Records Announce Partnership to Open New Project in New York City’s Seaport Neighborhood

NEW YORK, May 14, 2026--Seaport Entertainment Group (NYSE: SEG) today announced a partnership with Public Service, the organization behind Public Records, to develop a new project in the Seaport in Lower Manhattan. The restaurant concept, which will involve the revitalization of a historic building, is expected to open in 2027. This addition brings an exciting new dimension to one of the most iconic waterfront neighborhoods in New York City.

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AI-driven layoffs aren’t making business sense

Most large enterprises lay off workers after launching AI projects, but industry research says job cuts have no correlation to return on AI investment. Experts offer better routes to ROI.

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Learn more about Business 51 South project at May 19 meeting

A public meeting on May 19 will provide information on the Business 51 South improvements project in Stevens Point.

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‘Inside the NBA’ on Jason Collins’ death: ‘It was a terrible day for the NBA’

Barkley also believes there are still several gay players in many North American sports who have yet to come out due to societal pressure.

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YAS ISLAND TO BE HOME OF SPHERE ABU DHABI, A NEW GLOBAL ICON FOR IMMERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT

The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) and Sphere Entertainment Co. (NYSE: SPHR) today announced that Yas Island has been selected as the location for Sphere Abu Dhabi, a landmark project with a construction phase cost of USD 1.7 billion. Poised to become a global icon, the venue will attract tourists from around the world, boost economic diversification, and strengthen Abu Dhabi's sense of place for residents and visitors alike. Sphere Abu Dhabi, which will be the first Sphere venue outside the United States, will be built on a plot of land between Yas Mall and SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, with lush green surroundings and proximity to other Yas Island theme parks and attractions. Construction on the venue is expected to be completed by the end of 2029. HE Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Chairman of DCT Abu Dhabi, said: "Abu Dhabi has always built for the long term, and Sphere Abu Dhabi is a powerful demonstration of that commitment. In a region where the appetite for

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AI transformed Anthropic's workplace, coding 90% of projects, CFO says

Krishna Rao of Anthropic discusses AI's impact on automating white-collar tasks, increasing productivity, and shifting employee roles to management.

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Trump administration foreign aid cuts are having an impact on maternal health in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone had reduced its maternal mortality by nearly 80 percent since 2000. That process is now in danger as the country grapples with the lack of international funding including from the United States, which cut aid in 2025. NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah in partnership with the non-profit newsroom the Fuller Project show us how doctors in the ground are trying to save lives as resources dwindle.

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CSUSM Professors Earn Grants Advancing Science, Health and Student Success

For many students, quantum physics education centers on theory, with few opportunities for hands-on experience. Cal State San Marcos physics professor Justin Perron aims to change that. Perron is leading a three-year, $1,085,815 project supported by the Laboratory for Physical Sciences, targeting one of the most demanding areas in modern science...

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May 13 • 4:25 PM EDT • Science • news.csusm.edu
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Essentia Health-Fosston hosting annual stroke and trauma awareness community event

In recognition of National Stroke Awareness Month and National Trauma Awareness Month, Essentia Health is hosting its annual community stroke and trauma awareness grill-out in Fosston on Wednesday, May 20.

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May 13 • 2:16 PM EDT • Health • essentiahealth.org
Weymouth teen, dad start birdhouse business Chirp

A Weymouth father and daughter turned a backyard project into a growing business inspired by architecture and family time.

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May 13 • 1:48 PM EDT • Business • wcvb.com
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Research Profiles Welcomes the School of Public Health

The Research Profiles expansion project announced last year has reached a key milestone: School of Public Health faculty profiles have been added to the portal. The first Danforth Campus school to be fully integrated into the Research Profiles system, the School of Public Health is also WashU’s first new school in 100 years. Explore faculty […]

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May 13 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • library.washu.edu
Rumour: Project Helix Unlikely To Include Disc Drive, But Xbox May Have A Digital Solution

"Take this with a huge pinch of salt and a healthy dose of speculation"

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May 13 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • purexbox.com
Falcons depth chart projection: New starting kick returner?

Falcons depth chart: Vinny Anthony II is our projected starting kick returner

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May 13 • 6:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The cinema effect: Turning films into a gateway to science

The sci-fi film Project Hail Mary, currently in theaters, is capturing the attention of both audiences and the scientific community for its science-based content. It manages to engage viewers with complex, ...

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May 13 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • phys.org
Sega Explains Why Exactly It Cancelled Its "Super Game"

Market competition and business conditions ended the project

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The cinema effect: Turning films into a gateway to science

The sci-fi film Project Hail Mary, currently in theaters, is capturing the attention of both audiences and the scientific community for its science-based content. It manages to engage viewers with complex, cutting-edge topics — from astrophysics to language — without sacrificing entertainment. Yet not all films strike this balance. Many, unlike this recent production, have promoted inaccurate or even misleading scientific ideas, and thanks to their wide reach, have contributed to shaping distorted public perceptions of science. Precisely by harnessing the power of cinematic storytelling, Hildrun Walter, Fritz Treiber and colleagues have used films as a tool to foster engagement and dialogue between scientists and the public. Their innovative format, Science & Cinema, described in a new paper published in JCOM, proves both effective and potentially easy to replicate.

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May 12 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org
"Project Saluki": A new Xbox Game Pass tier has been unearthed, alongside a curious "Positron" potential disc-to-digital program — and it could be huge

The newest Xbox Game Pass tiers appear to be specifically targeting the lucrative Chinese market, and is Microsoft also working on a disc-to-digital program?

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May 12 • 7:54 PM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com
New Norman entertainment district breaks ground

A new entertainment district is coming to Norman, and on Tuesday, project leaders officially broke ground. Plans include bringing dining, retail, sporting events, and more to the development.

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May 12 • 7:18 PM EDT • Entertainment • kfor.com
Android Auto is now one (screen) size fits all

Phone projection is getting more embedded.

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May 12 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Ask a Boss: Should You Tell Work You Need Mental-Health Day?

No one needs to know why you’re calling out sick — would you tell your boss if you were projectile vomiting or having horrible cramps?

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May 12 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • thecut.com
Actress Marie Stark Launches Stark Contrast Entertainment With Drama Series ‘White Coat’

EXCLUSIVE: Producer and actress Marie Stark (Games People Play) has officially launched her production company, Stark Contrast Entertainment, and set its first project. White Coat will follow Dr Maya ...

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May 12 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Marie Stark Debuts Stark Contrast Entertainment With 'White Coat'

Producer and actress Marie Stark has officially launched her production company, Stark Contrast Entertainment, and set its first project 'White Coat.'

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May 12 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • deadline.com
Essentia Health-Duluth Clinic welcomes psychotherapist Megan Lexen

Megan Lexen, a licensed independent clinical social worker specializing in psychotherapy, is thrilled to join the Essentia Health-Duluth Clinic.

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Contributor: Elon Musk’s chainsaw has brought world health crashing down

The dismantling of USAID could produce 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including 4.5 million children under 5, according to new data projections.

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May 12 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • latimes.com