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- ExxonMobil is leaving New Jersey as its legal home after more than 140 years, and what matters isn’t the new address but what it signals about taxes, headquarters power, and corporate strategy
- China just put $226 million into an undersea data center near Shanghai, and the detail that matters is that ocean cooling and clean power are being used to cut land and water use as AI demand explodes
- Camera traps just captured a smooth-coated otter in that area for the first time, and what stands out is that it showed up where almost nobody was looking because the focus was on something else
- A Latin American country is moving massive amounts of earth to build a “dry canal” route pitched as bigger than the Panama Canal, and what’s bold is that it’s trying to reroute global trade without digging a single lock
- Parents in their 70s and their adult kids in their 40s and 50s keep describing the same thing from opposite sides, and what’s unsettling is realizing the adult child has been carrying the parent’s voice for decades
- Cement’s carbon problem may have a blunt fix, swap limestone for basalt, because modeling suggests energy demand could drop by more than 40% and emissions by over 80%, cutting CO2 from about 1,343 lb per ton of cement to roughly 110 lb with certain rock types
- A thumbnail-sized chip that runs an electrical current through blood plasma and uses nanoparticles to snag tumor signals sorted pancreatic cancer with 97% accuracy in about 15 minutes, beating the standard needle biopsy rate of roughly 79% in the same comparison
