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Trump’s problem-plagued effort to revamp the landmark reflecting pool has stretched well past his initial goal of having the Pool ready by July 4 for the nation’s 250th birthday.
The president at first suggested his renovations would cost $1.5 million, but the bill ballooned to more than $16 million by June.
Trump had said the repairs would last a century, but within days of the project’s initial completion last month, the water was beset by an algae bloom and pieces of the new coa…

Drained Reflecting Pool reveals faded liner after renovation
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's new liner, once dubbed “American flag blue” by President Donald Trump, has faded to a color closer to gray. An Associated Press team viewed the pool Wednesday from the Washington Monument. The pool was drained and debris removed after Independence Day fireworks. Trump’s renovation project has faced setbacks, including algae blooms and peeling paint. The project’s cost soared from $1.5 million to over $16 million by June. Trump blames vandals for th…

Ambient Pressure-Driven Actuators and Shape-Morphing Metamaterials
Benjamin Holdstock, Robert Trowbridge, Alexander W. Powell, Julian Monsalve Londono
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18982 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18982 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18982
arXiv:2607.18982v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Actuators which change shape in response to ambient pressure have great potential for use in extreme environments, from space to the deep ocean. Bi-layer actuators have so far not been explored to this end, despite their lightness and mechanical simplicity (there is no requirement for a separate power source or pump, for example) making them ideal for applications where transport and maintenance are difficult. In this paper, foam-based bilayer actuators powered by ambient pressure change have been constructed, modelled mathematically, characterised in terms of their actuating force, and built into deployable devices and metamaterial structures to showcase properties such as negative pressure expansivity. Actuators such as these are ideally suited for a range of applications, from deploying solar panels and sensors in space and extra-terrestrial atmospheres, to under-sea expandable structures and sensing.
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10 vor 10 vom 18.08.2026 - Play SRF
Humanitäre Spenden sollen beim «Islamischen Staat» landen, Rumänien: Was tun gegen die «Bärenplage»?, «Sport Schweiz 2026»: Schweiz, eine Sportnation im Wandel

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provinicialli: details and perspective from inside the kill zone of Ukraine.
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Machines First, Man Last — The Fedorov Doctrine Behind History’s First Landing of the Machines
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"Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst‑case scenarios"
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Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst‑case scenarios
London is underwater. The Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and the Bank of England are all submerged. Far away, the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have collapsed, triggering accelerated sea-level rise which, combined with a storm surge in the North Sea and a high spring tide, has led to water flooding over the Thames Barrier. Thousands of shops, offices, schools and houses are several feet deep in effluent-rich water.

FW Hannover: Wohnung in Linden-Süd brennt vollständig aus. Bewohner können sich selbstständig retten. Hannover (ots) - Die Feuerwehr Hannover wurde in der Nacht von Samstag auf Sonntag um 01:47 Uhr in die Posthornstraße in den Stadtteil Linden-Süd zu einem Wohnungsbrand im 1. OG eines Mehrfamilienhauses alarmiert. Aufgrund der eingehenden ... https:…

POL-SZ: Pressemitteilung des Polizeikommissariats Wolfenbüttel vom 15.07.2026 Wolfenbüttel (ots) - Einbruch in eine Schule Wolfenbüttel, Lindener Straße, 13.07.2026, 14:00 Uhr bis 14.07.2026, 05:30 Uhr Eine unbekannte Täterschaft drang gewaltsam in eine Schule ein. Im Gebäude hebelte die Täterschaft mehrere Türen auf ... https://www.

Proposed changes to Section 106 were issued by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
This is yet another of our government’s review organizations that has been filled with Trump appointees who have no sympathy for the subject on which they are expected to pass judgment.
While the proposed changes do not technically eliminate Section 106, they eviscerate it.
If this new policy is enacted, it would extend the autocratic decision-making of Trump’s Washington fiascos…

Opinion | It Won’t Stop at the Arc de Trump. It Won’t Stop at Washington.
The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the review process will allow it to take a wrecking ball to historic sites across the country.

"Carbon storage could curb more than 90% of AI data center emissions, study finds"
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Carbon storage could curb more than 90% of AI data center emissions, study finds
As artificial intelligence accelerates demand for computing power across the U.S., a new study co-authored by Hon Chung Lau, adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University and founder of Low Carbon Energies LLC, has found that carbon capture and storage could play a major role in limiting the climate impact of data centers.

For generations, Saudi Arabia exported oil.
Now it wants to export one of the digital era’s most coveted resources:
computing power.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seizing a chance to turn Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth into tech influence.
Few nations can match the kingdom’s cheap energy, deep pockets and open land
— the ingredients that tech firms need to operate the vast, power-hungry data centers that run modern A.I.
Already, Saudi Arabia has been neg…

Saudi Arabia’s New Power Play Is Exporting A.I. to the World
The kingdom is pouring money into data centers and working with U.S. and Chinese tech giants, landing its A.I. ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle for tech power.