timef 06/26/2025
- Republicans Propose a New Way to Scrap Fuel Economy Rules: No Fines nytimes.com2025-06-26 22:49:39
For 50 years, automakers have had to increase the fuel efficiency of their vehicles or pay fines. The Republican megabill would set those penalties to $0.
- Investors on Edge About a Potential Shadow Fed Chair nytimes.com2025-06-26 20:31:33
Traders have moved on a report that President Trump is again weighing a shake-up at the central bank that could undermine market confidence.
- Here’s Another Use for Ice: Creating Secret Codes nytimes.com2025-06-26 17:05:08
Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patterns of air bubbles in sheets of ice.
- How Two Neuroscientists View Optical Illusions nytimes.com2025-06-26 17:03:16
The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception.
- Summer Gas Prices at 4-Year Low as Israel and Iran Agree to Cease-Fire nytimes.com2025-06-26 17:00:59
A fragile cease-fire in the Middle East and an oil supply chain without significant disruptions have helped keep gas prices stable.
- Help! My Credit Card Won’t Cover Damage to a Rental Car in Europe. nytimes.com2025-06-26 17:00:53
A traveler who used his American Express card’s collision damage waiver got stuck paying nearly $1,300 because of a missing document. Whose fault was it?
- A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy nytimes.com2025-06-26 17:00:31
Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.
- Should the Government Stop Subsidizing a Car Feature That ‘Everyone Hates’? nytimes.com2025-06-26 17:00:15
The E.P.A. under Trump is moving to eliminate credits to carmakers for the fuel-saving start-stop function.
- How Japan and Alaska Pioneered the Global Market for L.N.G. nytimes.com2025-06-26 12:00:15
The leading role the United States plays in liquefied natural gas traces its roots to a small Alaskan outpost that began shipping the fuel to Japan in 1969.
- The Alaska Town at the Center of Trump’s $44 Billion LNG Push nytimes.com2025-06-26 12:00:13
Nikiski in southern Alaska is waiting to see if backing from President Trump and a new developer will advance a decades-old initiative to export natural gas.
- Grand Jury Indicts Russian Scientist on Smuggling Charges nytimes.com2025-06-26 07:44:54
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained in February after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country.
- Some Republicans Join Democrats in Unease Over White House Budget Cuts nytimes.com2025-06-26 07:44:23
President Trump has sought to claw back funds for public broadcasting and foreign aid, sparking a fierce debate over the power of the purse.
- N.I.H. Memo Pauses Cancellations of Medical Research Grants nytimes.com2025-06-26 02:48:56
The directive, in a memo issued Tuesday, came after two court rulings that questioned the Trump administration’s swift cuts to funding.
- Fred Espenak, Astrophysicist Known as Mr. Eclipse, Dies at 73 nytimes.com2025-06-26 02:40:51
He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to nonscientist sky gazers.
- Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Ocean Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log nytimes.com2025-06-26 02:00:13
Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.
- Did Baby Talk Give Rise to Language? nytimes.com2025-06-26 02:00:07
The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.
