Daily Archives: Dec 17, 2025

"Again unprepared." Those four words formed one of the most unsparing verdicts yet on Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine from retired Col. Gen. Vladimir Chirkin, former commander of Russia's ground forces. In a rare public broadside, he accused the country's intelligence apparatus of feeding the Kremlin a fantasy-a universe...

In fact, only three years since its public release, ChatGPT now has more than 800 million weekly users-a rate of adoption that OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman categorizes as "unlike any technology in history." The CEO warned in one of his recent appearances on The Tonight Show, "One of...

Why risk billions and decades of effort to send humans to Mars? For leading scientists, the answer is clear: the chance to ascertain whether life ever existed beyond Earth. This guiding purpose underpins the newly released “A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,” a comprehensive, 240‑page report...