Trump Says US Military Will Stay Near Iran and Is Ready for ‘Next Conquest’

Global Youth Unemployment And Inactivity Inch Up Again For two years in a row, global unemployment and inactivity among youths aged 15 to 24 has inched up again across world regions. As seen in data by the International Labor Organization, the coronavirus pandemic caused these rates to go up in 2020, but the situation improved again gradually, in 2022 and 2023 falling below pre-pandemic levels. But, as Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, since then, rates have been on a slow upswing once more, reaching 12.4 percent of youths in the labor force who are unemployed and...

US Chemists Turn Natural Gas Into Liquid Fuel Without High Heat And Pressures Authored by Prabhat Ranjan Mishra via Interesting Engineering, Chemists in the United States have discovered a new way to turn natural gas into liquid fuel. The team from Northwestern University has successfully converted methane directly into methanol in a single step. They harnessed tiny bursts of plasma — or mini “lightning bolts” — in glass tubes submerged in water. Methanol is a versatile, high-demand industrial chemical used to make many products people use every day.Employee/Alexander/Driscoll Using pulses of high-voltage electricity “We’re using...

The US Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to $58.6 billion to ramp up production of Patriot PAC-3 interceptors, as US forces have used an enormous number of them in the war with Iran. According to The Hill, the deal converts a previous one-year contract worth $4.7 billion to a multi-year deal […]