SpaceX Is Quietly Retiring the Rocket That Built Its Empire

As U.S. policy turbocharges domestic lithium mining, a major investigative data project reveals which communities are being asked to bear the cost.

VW admits its EVs earn 20–30% less than gas cars, and the fix depends on a platform that won't arrive until the end of the decade.

Global forest loss is falling, but the trade rules and supply chain audits driving that decline may be masking deeper structural fragility.

AI misinformation may be generating its own antidote, but the adaptive response is arriving unevenly, and that gap could matter more than the lies themselves.

Google's MTP Drafters promise 3x faster AI inference for Gemma 4, and the ripple effects on cost, design, and competition could be substantial.

Shell sold its Niger Delta oil assets to burnish its climate credentials, but it kept trading the crude. That distinction is doing a lot of work.

A new study tries to put a dollar figure on what bad government statistics actually cost an economy, and the answer is unsettling.

The Pentagon says Iran hasn't broken the ceasefire, but the clashes near Hormuz reveal how fragile the architecture of that agreement really is.