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SEC post-spring intel: Inside the key QB battles, breakout players, more buzz from across the league

From unsettled QB rooms to breakout players, here's what we're hearing around the SEC entering summer

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May 21 • 11:23 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
A Look At WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN) Valuation After Weak User Trends And IP Adaptation Slowdown

WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN) is back in focus after first quarter 2026 results and fresh guidance highlighted pressure on user metrics and IP adaptation revenue, despite stable revenue and comments around paid content and advertising. See our latest analysis for WEBTOON Entertainment. The stock is trading at US$11.64 after a 2.28% 1 day share price gain. However, recent momentum has cooled, with a 7 day share price return down 15.84% and a year to date share price return down 11.88%, even as...

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May 21 • 10:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
What Customer Workarounds Can Reveal About Your Business Model

Customer workarounds (such as customers sharing accounts, or teams stitching together third-party tools) are not merely signs of product friction but early evidence that a company’s business model no longer matches how customers want to access, use, and pay for value. If firms fail to respond to customer workarounds, they leave themselves open to new competitors or to customers simply leaving. Companies should detect workaround patterns early, map them to distinct customer needs, build a portfolio of complementary business models, and monitor these signals continuously to capture demand before competitors do.

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May 21 • 8:05 AM EDT • Business • hbr.org
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Net migration at new low – so why is immigration such a hot topic?

Despite latest evidence of falling migration numbers, debate around the subject remains ‘hostile’

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May 21 • 8:04 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
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Around the MHS

The latest news from around the Military Health System for the week of May 18-22, 2026, includes the MHS Mental Health Guidebook, heroes of military medicine honored for outstanding achievements, and the Tri-Service Dental Team’s historic win.

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May 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • health.mil
iPhone 19 Pro Prototype in Testing Allegedly Has Quad-Curved Display

Apple is testing an iPhone 19 Pro with a display that curves around all four edges of the device, a leaker out of China has claimed. According to Weibo-based Digital Chat Station, the 2027-generation Pro device, currently at the evaluation stage, has a hole-punch cutout in the display for the front-facing camera, but Face ID is completely hidden under the panel.

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May 21 • 7:32 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
How Sen. Jay Morris mixed Meta's mega-deal with his own real estate business

While Morris used his political position to advance the massive Meta data center project and the Entergy deal to power the facility, he and his business partners were buying and selling the land around it over the past 15 months.

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May 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • lailluminator.com
Cleveland Browns news (5/21): Talking QBs during OTAs

The latest Cleveland Browns news and notes from around the NFL in today’s edition of the Daily Dawg Chow.

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May 21 • 6:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How Oana Olteanu became a top early-stage startup investor

After stints at Scale Venture Partners and SignalFire, Oana Olteanu is building a venture firm around the kind of drive that has defined her career.

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May 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Fantasy Baseball Closer Report: Cade Smith leading MLB in saves, Grant Taylor on the rise in Chicago

Jorge Montanez breaks down the last week in saves from around the league with updated closer rankings.

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May 21 • 2:39 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pokemon Japan to Implement Government ID Verification for Pokemon...

To combat scalping, Pokemon Japan has announced that starting around August 2026, customers will need to verify their identity using the government-issued

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May 21 • 1:28 AM EDT • Technology • pokebeach.com
Pung! Clicking Tiles and the Business of Mahjong

At tables across O‘ahu and around the state, women are quietly building something more than mahjong hands — they’re building networks, businesses and above all, camaraderie.

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May 20 • 9:00 PM EDT • Business • hawaiibusiness.com
Oxford Population Health: Global study of HIV variants underscores challenges for vaccine development

The largest-ever study mapping genetic variants of HIV-1 around the world shows the regional distribution of different subtypes of the virus continues to evolve.

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May 20 • 8:01 PM EDT • Health • eatg.org
Lunar launch

When Artemis II launched in April, sending astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, the mission broke records — and will help scientists understand undiscovered secrets, including the history of Earth and our solar system.As lunar science lead for NASA’s Artemis II mission, Kelsey Young, ’12 MS and ’14 PhD in geological sciences, led the team that developed the lunar science plan and trained the crew to study the moon.

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May 20 • 2:44 PM EDT • Science • news.asu.edu
‘Still shakes me’: Contractor recounts finding human skull in crawl space of Rock Hill business

The remains were discovered around 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday at a business along Oakland Avenue near North Trade Street.

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May 20 • 2:38 PM EDT • Business • wbtv.com
Aaron Rodgers says this year with Steelers will be his last in the NFL: 'This is it'

There will be no further offseasons of intrigue around Aaron Rodgers’ playing status. So says Aaron Rodgers.

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May 20 • 2:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
PLOS One marks 20 years of advancing rigorous, multidisciplinary open science

PLOS One, the multidisciplinary open access journal published by PLOS, is marking 20 years of publishing research grounded in scientific rigor, transparency, and ethical practice. Since its launch in 2006, PLOS One has provided a platform for research to be shared, examined, and built on, across disciplines and around the world.

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May 20 • 12:33 PM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org
Politics Is a Mother

Across New Jersey and around the country, more women are stepping into leadership roles and using their voices to help shape policies that impact families,

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May 20 • 11:02 AM EDT • Politics • onnj.com
Nine Horizon Europe projects convene in Brussels to advance science-based pathways for transformative change for biodiversity

A joint results conference of nine projects from the Transformative Change Cluster will bring together around 150 participants from science and policy on 4–5 June 2026 at Comet Louise, Brussels.

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May 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org
Target notches much-needed win in first quarter of turnaround strategy

Target's first quarter crushed expectations, netting $25.4 billion in sales, as shoppers flocked to the retailer's renewed mix of trend and value.

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May 20 • 6:40 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Inside downtown L.A.'s immersive 'Hospital of Emotions' exhibit

A new immersive art project in Los Angeles is set to occupy the shuttered St. Vincent Medical Center, turning a site in transition into a large-scale environment organized around human emotion.

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May 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
UNMC's NE SciFest spawns 'incredible celebration of science'

Take a look at some of the scenes from around the popular month-long science festival, presented by UNMC.

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May 20 • 2:58 AM EDT • Science • unmc.edu
Layoff day at Meta has arrived

Meta has begun sending layoff emails to roughly 10% of its workforce. The cuts are expected to eliminate around 8,000 roles.

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May 19 • 11:19 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Lost for 150,000 years: Rainforest discovery upends human history

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments for early survival. But a groundbreaking discovery in West Africa is rewriting that story. Researchers uncovered evidence that humans were living deep within rainforest environments in present-day Côte d'Ivoire around 150,000 years ago — far earlier than anyone thought possible.

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May 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Gabe Evans visits Berthoud for Small Business Week

As part of Small Business Week in early May, Republican Rep. Gabe Evans visited businesses around Colorado’s 8th Congressional District.

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May 19 • 6:29 PM EDT • Business • berthoudsurveyor.com
Building a Business Around Classic Niche Game Preservation

ININ Games and Strictly Limited discuss retro game preservation, Japanese publishing partnerships, physical collector editions, Neo-Retro indie games, and the evolving business of restoring classic games for modern audiences.

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May 19 • 6:00 PM EDT • Business • 80.lv
Possible human remains found in crawl space of Rock Hill business

Officers were called around 11:30 a.m. to a business in the 300 block of Oakland Ave. after workers renovating the property found the remains in the crawl space.

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May 19 • 5:30 PM EDT • Business • wsoctv.com
Jonathan Weigel named one of the World's Best 40-Under-40 Graduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants - Haas News

Assistant Professor Jonathan Weigel, who teaches business ethics to MBA students and studies how fragile states can build more accountable governance, has been named one of Poets & Quants’ “World’s Best 40-Under-40 Graduate Business Professors of 2026.” Weigel was selected from more than 1,700 nominations from students, administrators, and faculty members at business schools around […]

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May 19 • 4:36 PM EDT • Business • newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu
Google Antigravity 2.0 goes after Claude Code and OpenAI Codex with a full agent-first rebuild

Google has taken the IDE off Antigravity. What is left, announced at I/O 2026, is a standalone desktop app built around agents rather than a code editor with AI bolted on.

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May 19 • 2:41 PM EDT • Technology • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Steelers to try OT Max Iheanachor at multiple positions

The Steelers continue to move pieces around on the offensive line.

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May 19 • 2:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chicago Reader names a new publisher

The Chicago Reader has named a new publisher as the long-struggling alternative news outlet continues its latest turnaround effort.

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May 19 • 1:19 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
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Preserving traditions and animal health in Colombia   - WOAH - World Organisation for Animal Health

Animal health in Colombia - Indigenous communities have organised their productive systems around the concept of the chagra for centuries. Learn more.

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May 19 • 8:06 AM EDT • Health • woah.org
Scientists stunned by new Yellowstone discovery: what it means for the next eruption - Futura-Sciences

Yellowstone: The Supervolcano That Never Sleeps Yellowstone is widely regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. Why? It’s a supervolcano, known for its potential to unleash absolutely colossal eruptions. The last time it blew was around 70,000 years ago, but make no mistake—the volcano is far...

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May 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
'A wave of enthusiasm' for 'another fresh start'

Part of the recipe for football's incredible popularity is the way that a summer break of buying and selling players and changing things around behind the scenes can convince any fanbase that things are set to improve in the season to come, no matter how badly the previous one ended. Chelsea are a perfect example right now. A big injection of hope can make all those intractable issues feel manageable again, and that is what the news about Xabi Alonso being appointed as the club's new manager has done.

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May 19 • 7:24 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Houston Texans News: Kayden McDonald ‘Bring[s] Power.“

Your one-stop shop for Houston Texans, local sports, and news from around the league for Tuesday, May 19, 2026.

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May 19 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A Grip on Sports: There are three main ingredients in our Tuesday column but they all might actually revolve around just one

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Alliteration is a big deal on Tuesdays. Mainly as a way to menu plan. It is Taco Tuesday after all. Which makes a Tuesday Trio the right number of column subjects today as well.

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May 19 • 4:13 AM EDT • Sports • spokesman.com
Enhancing hospital discharge management around the world

For hospital discharge management, policy clarifies roles, operational teams plan ahead, and digital tools can make execution faster, safer and scalable.

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May 19 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • weforum.org
Addictive AI Could Become The Next Big Business Risk

AI is making digital products more engaging, but that also creates a growing risk around addiction, mental health and harmful customer behavior.

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May 19 • 1:45 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com
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Phillies’ Don Mattingly reveals simple reasoning behind recent success

Philadelphia Phillies manager Don Mattingly discussed the club’s recent turnaround Monday before a three-game set vs. the Cincinnati Reds.

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May 18 • 8:04 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nintendo reveals new mobile game Pictonico

Nintendo is releasing a brand new mobile game titled Pictonico, the company just revealed. It will be available on May 28, 2026. Pictonico is a mini-game experience centered around using photos. You can use your own face (or friends as well) across 80 different challenges. The game is free to start. A few mini-games will be available for free, but...

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May 18 • 7:50 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
Intel CEO says foundry business is gaining momentum as customer interest grows

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the company’s Foundry turnaround is gaining traction.

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May 18 • 6:42 PM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
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
Politics in park prove positive

More than 30 political candidates descended upon Cody for Politics in the Park, drawing voters from around the basin for the opportunity to meet, learn and voice their concerns.

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May 18 • 3:30 PM EDT • Politics • codyenterprise.com
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Ford Europe plans five new vehicles to turn around passenger business

Although it has leadership in commercial vehicles on the continent, the Blue Oval has struggled with market share in the retail space.

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May 18 • 11:50 AM EDT • Business • detroitnews.com
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Expert explains the science, safety, and legal landscape around mifepristone used in abortions, miscarriage care

The U.S. Supreme Court has preserved access to mifepristone—the medication used in the majority of abortions in the United States and in some miscarriage care—for now. The action maintains current rules ...

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May 18 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • medicalxpress.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
United Airlines Made Passengers Endure a 13 Hour Flight With No Entertainment, No Wi-Fi, And No In-Seat Power

United Airlines is making passengers on a 13-hour flight from Tokyo to Washington Dulles endure a flight experience from around four decades ago: No seatback screens, no in-flight Wi-Fi, and no in-seat chargers. It’s not like this is some sort of retro-inspired experience that passengers signed up for. Rather, the 27-year-old Boeing 777-200 being used…

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May 18 • 9:44 AM EDT • Entertainment • paddleyourownkanoo.com
Amid upfronts sports overload, pitches around data, AI come into focus

Legacy firms NBCU and Disney, tech titans Netflix and Amazon and publishers shaped by M&A showed off evolving offerings during last week’s shows.

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May 18 • 8:41 AM EDT • Sports • marketingdive.com
Indianapolis Tabbed No. 3 Best Sports Business City by Sports Business Journal

CHARLOTTE – Sports Business Journal (SBJ) has named Indianapolis as the No. 3 Best Sports Business City in the United States, the organization announced on Monday. The Best Sports Business Cities™ list highlights the top 50 cities for businesses operating in and around sports and influences strategic direction for sports business professionals across the United States. Started in 2023, Best Sports Business Cities™ is an editorial initiative developed by Sports Business Journal, the industry’s leading news source on the business of sports. Using extensive data from dozens of sources and insights from nearly 120 influential sports business executives, SBJ evaluated more than 2,000 markets to identify the top cities based on opportunity, economic environment and industry sentiment to identify cities with strong business presence, hiring potential and long-term investment viability.

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May 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • horizonleague.org
Indianapolis Tabbed No. 3 Best Sports Business City by Sports Business Journal

CHARLOTTE – Sports Business Journal (SBJ) has named Indianapolis as the No. 3 Best Sports Business City in the United States, the organization announced on Monday. The Best Sports Business Cities™ list highlights the top 50 cities for businesses operating in and around sports and influences strategic direction for sports business professionals across the United States. Started in 2023, Best Sports Business Cities™ is an editorial initiative developed by Sports Business Journal, the industry’s leading news source on the business of sports. Using extensive data from dozens of sources and insights from nearly 120 influential sports business executives, SBJ evaluated more than 2,000 markets to identify the top cities based on opportunity, economic environment and industry sentiment to identify cities with strong business presence, hiring potential and long-term investment viability.

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May 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • horizonleague.org
Sports Business Journal Announces the 2026 Best Sports Business Cities™ in the U.S.

Atlanta has been named the No. 1 Sports Business City in Sports Business Journal's annual rankings. The Best Sports Business Cities™ list highlights the top 50 cities for businesses operating in and around sports and influences strategic direction for sports business professionals across the United States.

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May 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • finance.yahoo.com
Inside Amer Sports: Retail excellence in Shanghai

“Inside Amer Sports” is a new video series offering a behind-the-scenes look at the people, places, and experiences shaping Amer Sports around the world.

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May 18 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • amersports.com
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Inside the U’s baby science research lab, a look at how the world learns

The University of Minnesota Child Brain and Perception Lab explores how infants and toddlers make sense of the people around them. MPR News spent a day recently at the lab watching one of the “pilot babies” discover their world.

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May 18 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • mprnews.org
Scientists discovered nature’s own “brakes” deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that may have prevented massive megaquakes

For decades, a strange patch of the Pacific Ocean has quietly puzzled earthquake scientists around the world. Deep beneath the seafloor, near the coast of Ecuador, a massive underwater fault has been producing almost identical earthquakes every five to six years.

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May 18 • 2:18 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Iran war saddles global companies with $25 billion bill

The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has already cost companies around the world at least $25 billion - and the bill is climbing, according to a Reuters analysis.

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May 18 • 1:04 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Mystery grows around absent congressman facing tough reelection

Tom Kean Jr.’s months-long absence from Capitol Hill is the talk of the town in Washington. Where is the man? No one is saying

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May 18 • 12:07 AM EDT • Politics • njspotlightnews.org
British Takeovers Up 250% as Global Buyers Bypass Political Flux

Britain has been a go-to destination for international deal hunters. The value of M&A mergers targeting UK companies is up more than 250% this year to around $150 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

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May 18 • 12:00 AM EDT • Politics • bloomberg.com
What's next for Pistons? Detroit's questions around Cade Cunningham include pressing one about Jalen Duren

The Pistons were the No. 1 seed in the East and had a wonderful regular season, but their flaws were exposed in the playoffs

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May 17 • 11:03 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Jonathan Weigel, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored more than 540 up-and-coming star MBA and graduate business professors from around the world.

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May 17 • 7:56 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Diana Jue-Rajasingh, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University

Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored more than 540 up-and-coming star MBA and graduate business professors from around the world.

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May 17 • 7:55 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Christoph Herpfer, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored more than 540 up-and-coming star MBA and graduate business professors from around the world.

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May 17 • 7:53 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Daniel Guetta, Columbia Business School

Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored more than 540 up-and-coming star MBA and graduate business professors from around the world.

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May 17 • 7:52 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Sylvia Grewatsch, Brock University Goodman School of Business

Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored more than 540 up-and-coming star MBA and graduate business professors from around the world.

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May 17 • 7:51 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Ashley Hardin, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis

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May 17 • 7:50 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Arpit Gupta, NYU Stern School of Business

Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored more than 540 up-and-coming star MBA and graduate business professors from around the world.

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May 17 • 7:50 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Emma Jingfei Zhang, Goizueta Business School, Emory University

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May 17 • 7:49 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Kristin Donnelly, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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May 17 • 7:48 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Julia Binder, IMD Business School

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May 17 • 7:39 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Julia Fonseca, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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May 17 • 7:36 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Daniel Blaseg, Esade Business School

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May 17 • 7:35 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Julia Bodner, Copenhagen Business School

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May 17 • 7:34 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Mochen Yang, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

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May 17 • 7:33 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Jirs Meuris, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored more than 540 up-and-coming star MBA and graduate business professors from around the world.

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May 17 • 7:31 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Elena Prager, Simon Business School, University of Rochester

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May 17 • 7:31 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Maria Roche, Harvard Business School

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May 17 • 7:29 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Yoonseock (Yoon) Son, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

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May 17 • 7:28 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Clara Martínez-Toledano, Imperial Business School

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May 17 • 7:28 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: José Parra Moyano, IMD Business School

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May 17 • 7:27 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Julia Langdon, ESMT Berlin

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May 17 • 7:26 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Hossein Piri, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

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May 17 • 7:25 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Jetson Leder-Luis, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

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May 17 • 7:24 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Tammaro Terracciano, IESE Business School

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May 17 • 7:23 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Shohini Kundu, UCLA Anderson School of Management

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May 17 • 7:19 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Léonard Boussioux, University of Washington, Foster School of Business

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May 17 • 7:19 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
NextEra to discuss paying about $76 per share for Dominion, Bloomberg News reports

U.S. ​power firm NextEra ‌Energy is discussing a mostly stock deal for ​Dominion Energy that ​would value the smaller ⁠Virginia-based utility ​at about $76 per share, ​or around $66 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday.

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May 17 • 5:37 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Despite retribution, Cassidy attempted to make amends with Trump after impeachment vote

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — When Charles Wandfluh voted in Louisiana's Republican primary over the weekend, he could only conjure the unflattering image of a panicked rodent when talking about Bill Cassidy's desperate attemp t to cling to his U.S. Senate seat despite opposition from President Donald Trump. “He’s just a squirrel running around the tree, chasing nuts to find whatever he can get to benefit him,” said Wandfluh, 57, in a suburb of New Orleans.

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May 17 • 4:08 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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Business briefs: PNW grads lauded for GPAs

News and events around the area

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May 17 • 2:30 PM EDT • Business • chicagotribune.com
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Game #46 GameThread: Jays @ Tigers

Game Three with the Tigers and then the Jays head off for four games in New York against the Yankees. And Adam Macko is up with the team. He told reporters that he rushed around to buy ‘collared shirts’ to wear on the team bus, saying that he only had hoodies. It seems that I’ve […]

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May 17 • 1:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Vikings Have a Few Schedule Nightmares Afoot

Sportsbooks believe the 2026 Minnesota Vikings will finish around 8-9 or 9-8 this season, a familiar win forecast that seems […]

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May 17 • 12:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
New Orleans novelist draws on his experience in group homes for new novel

Joe Bond’s debut novel draws on his youth around group homes in Kentucky, portraying troubled teens’ lives in care during the 1980s.

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May 17 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • nola.com
What GOP officials are hopeful — and worried — about six months from the midterms

NBC News spoke to roughly 30 Republican National Committee members and GOP activists around the country about how the party can keep control of Congress in November.

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May 17 • 5:51 AM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Cybersecurity Is No Longer Optional for Any Business. These ETFs Are Built Around That Reality.

As the need for cybersecurity grows, the share prices of cybersecurity stocks have risen.

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May 17 • 5:13 AM EDT • Business • fool.com
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When athletes trade sports dreams for regular jobs

After years of taking orders from coaches, some ex-players decide it’s their turn to start bossing people around.

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May 17 • 1:01 AM EDT • Sports • morningbrew.com
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WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DR Congo global health emergency

The agency added that the outbreak, with around 246 cases and 80 deaths, does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency.

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Out-thundered and sundered, San Diego squashes Seattle 7-4

Knocked around and laid out.

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May 16 • 10:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Stunning 150-million-year-old stegosaur skull rewrites dinosaur evolution

A spectacular dinosaur discovery in Spain is giving scientists a rare new look inside the world of stegosaurs. Paleontologists uncovered the best-preserved stegosaur skull ever found in Europe, belonging to the iconic plated dinosaur Dacentrurus armatus, which roamed Earth around 150 million years ago. Because stegosaur skulls are extremely fragile and almost never survive intact, the fossil is helping researchers uncover previously unknown details about how these armored giants evolved.

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May 16 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.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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'Top Gun' creators say Tom Cruise 'barfed on himself' during jet ride that sold him on doing the movie

'Top Gun' co-writer Jack Epps says Tom Cruise 'barfed on himself' when the Blue Angels took him on a gnarly jet ride to convince him to do the movie: 'They shook him around.'

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As global crises multiply, scores of US diplomats say they have been forced out

Amid ongoing foreign policy crises around the globe and as the Trump administration struggles to reach a deal to end the war with Iran, the State Department last week finalized the firings of nearly 250 foreign service officers in a brief, impersonal email.

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May 16 • 11:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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8 Books That Break the Silence Around Suicide for Mental Health Awareness Month (Exclusive)

"I wrote a story that centers suicide because I know what it feels like for tomorrow to not feel promised," writes 'A Breath Too Late' author and mental health advocate Rocky Callen

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