Advances in Domestic Heavy Rare Earth Minerals Production Essential for North American Defense Stockpiles

That product profile is broad enough to matter. REalloys produces or plans to produce high-purity rare earth metals including neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium, samarium, gadolinium, ...
Rigzone

Petronas Makes Discovery offshore East Java

'The Barokah-1 discovery reinforces the compelling exploration potential we continue to see in the Northern Madura region, East Java'. Image by Febriana Suwarningsih via iStock Malaysia's national oil ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
Religion Unplugged

The Sunni-Shi’a Muslim Divide: Why It Matters In The Iran War

(ANALYSIS) The divide between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims is one of the most discussed — and most often misunderstood — issues in global politics. This difference frequently appears in headlines about the ...
The Washington Post

We texted 1,000 Americans about U.S. strikes in Iran. Here’s what they said.

How many Americans support the airstrikes against Iran that President Donald Trump ordered this weekend? Do they think the strikes should continue? How concerned are they about a full-scale war with ...
The Conversation

Does international law still matter? The strike on the girls’ school in Iran shows why we need it

Shannon Bosch does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
NPR

How, who, and why: NPR flips its famous letters to defend the right to be curious

WASHINGTON, D.C.; March 2, 2026 – NPR is standing up for the public's right to ask hard questions in a national campaign dubbed "For your right to be curious." At NPR's headquarters, on billboards in ...
Time

More Than 100 Reported Killed in Strike on Girls’ Elementary School in Iran. Here’s What We Know

This picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency shows the site of a strike on a girls' school in Minab, in Iran's southern Hormozgan province, on February 28, 2026. The United States and Israel ...
Austin American-Statesman

What we know: 5 key questions answered after West 6th Street mass shooting

Three people are dead, and 14 others were injured in a mass shooting early Sunday outside Buford’s bar on West Sixth Street in downtown Austin, according to authorities. Among those killed was the ...
The New York Times

Trump’s Attack on Iran Is Reckless

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. This article has been ...
CNN

Trump wonders why Iran won’t ‘capitulate’ on its nuclear program. Here’s why

“Curious to know why we do not capitulate? Because we are IRANIAN,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote after US envoy Steve Witkoff said President Donald Trump was wondering why Tehran hadn ...