Daily Archives: Dec 12, 2025

James Thompson

Why Earth’s Faster Spin Could Upend Time and the Technology We...

A setup by way of rhetorical question: When did a millisecond last verge on derailing the world's most important technologies? This summer, the answer is now. Earth's rotation has sped up, days are shortening by fractions of a millisecond, and the world's timekeepers are preparing to take a leap...
James Thompson

NASA’s Turbulent Year: What’s at Stake for Science, Workforce, and the...

It arrived not with a whisper, but a roar: the Trump administration's plan to cut NASA's budget by 25 percent represents the agency's most dire financial threat since the beginning of the Space Age. In the corridors of the Goddard Space Flight Center, the implications of this proposal are...
William Harrison

Why the AI Market’s Bubble Is Different And What Investors Overlook

When Wall Street's best minds start comparing today's AI-driven stock mania to the dot-com bubble, it's not mere nostalgia speaking it's a cautionary tale. During the late 1990s, investors wagered heavily on the internet's promise and saw trillions vanish when reality could not keep up with runaway hopes. Today,...