Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

William Harrison

Boeing’s 500-Jet China Deal at Center of Tariff and Trade Battles

The stakes of U.S.–China trade talks have never been higher. Near the end of negotiations, officials are considering a Boeing jet order of historic proportion up to 500 planes that could anchor a larger trade deal and rebalance economic ties between the world's two largest economies. 1. The Size and...
James Thompson

Asteroid Impact 43 Million Years Ago Shaped North Sea Seafloor

For forty years, the Silverpit Crater under the southern North Sea has been a geological mystery. Was it the impact scar of a giant asteroid collision or the result of more ordinary subsurface activity? New high-resolution seismic imaging, microscopic mineral analysis, and numerical impact modeling have now provided a...
Charles Mitchell

7 Strategic Insights from Ukraine’s Tor-M2 Drone Strikes

"The first fight of the next war will be fought with more drones than any of us have ever seen," cautioned Maj. Gen. Curt Taylor of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division in July 2025. That future already exists on Ukraine's battlefields. In an attrition-fueled war of improvisational technology,...