Daily Archives: Dec 17, 2025

Charles Mitchell

7 Tech Billionaires’ Bold Moves to Build Private Cities and Compounds

Having land is the ultimate power play, a historian of real estate once said. In the 21st century, that power is being reoriented by a few tech billionaires who are no longer satisfied with estates. They are constructing or trying to construct entire towns, islands, and futuristic exclaves of...
James Thompson

Surprising Chemistry and Origins of Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS

It is not often that each decade a comet older than the Sun passes by, leaving behind a chemical footprint never witnessed before. But that is exactly what 3I/ATLAS just the third confirmed interstellar visitor has left in the solar system, and scientists are scrambling to unlock its secrets...
Thomas Reed

80 Years On, Pacific WWII Wrecks Pose Rising Toxic Threat

Eight decades since the guns fell silent in the Pacific, the ocean floor is still carrying the equipment of war and with it, a seeping environmental problem. Thousands of ships, planes, and undetonated bombs lie or are buried beneath the blue-green waters, their metal hulls and ordnance rusting, leaking...