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WASHINGTON— President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency today formally proposed gutting tailpipe pollution standards and rescinding the “endangerment finding” — the landmark scientific finding that planet-heating pollution harms public health and welfare.“The EPA is killing the biggest single step any nation has taken to save oil, save consumers money at the pump, and combat global warming,” said Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Safe Climate Transport Campaign. “American families will suffer long-term harms so that giant auto and oil companies can pocket short-term profits. They’re popping champagne corks at the OPEC and GM headquarters but also in Beijing, where China’s EV makers will face no competition from the U.S. to dominate the world’s clean car ma...

The Galaxy S26 leaks just don’t stop, with the latest batch of images giving us our best look at the Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra in their core color options. These new official-looking images were published by Evan Blass (@evleaks) by way of his “Leakmail” Substack. The images showcase all three of Samsung’s new smartphones in Black, White, Sky Blue, and Cobalt Violet color variants. Those four colors are expected to be Samsung’s core options, with “Silver Shadow” and “Pink Gold” rumored to be Samsung.com exclusives. On the lower-tier Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+, these photos show off the slightly updated design that, really, just boils down to a new camera bump. Otherwise, these phones look largely identical to their predecessors. Advertisement - scroll for more c...

Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute Welcomes Three New Academic Institutions: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee School of Engineering, and Waukesha County Technical College MILWAUKEE, Feb. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute (NMDSI) – a first-of-its-kind partnership between Northwestern Mutual, Marquette University, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) – announced today it is expanding to include three additional Wisconsin-based academic institutions. The institute's newest partners will include the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), and Waukesha County Technical College (WCTC). ...

Apple has four products showing signs of being discontinued imminently, with supply reportedly drying up at the Apple Store ahead of successors launching soon. iPhone 16e Last February, Apple launched the iPhone 16e as a new budget-friendly model. But all signs point to the iPhone being discontinued shortly as the iPhone 17e nears. Per Mark Gurman in a post on X, Apple retail employees tell him that inventory of the iPhone 16e has “basically dried out.” With the iPhone 17e launch expected in the next couple of weeks, it seems Apple has no plans for the iPhone 16e to stick around at a lower price point. Instead, it will be completely discontinued. M3 iPad Air Apple’s M3 iPad Air launched last March, and rumors increasingly indicate that its successor is almost ...

The thermal infrared capabilities of an imager on NASA’s Terra satellite have been shut off and will no longer collect data, more than 25 years after the instrument captured its first image of Earth from space. This is the latest effort to prioritize power on Terra for its remaining instruments. Terra, which had a design life of six years when launched, has long outperformed its mission life. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, is one of five instruments aboard Terra, which launched in December 1999. The ASTER instrument was created as part of a cooperative effort between NASA and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The ASTER Thermal Infrared (TIR) subsystem was turned off Jan. 16, due to power limitations on the spacecraft. The A...

NASA completed the first flight test of a scale-model wing designed to improve laminar flow, reducing drag and lowering fuel costs for future commercial aircraft.  The flight took place Jan. 29 at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, using one of the agency’s F-15B research jets. The NASA-designed, 40-inch Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) wing model was attached to the aircraft’s underside vertically, like a fin.  The flight lasted about 75 minutes, during which the team ensured the aircraft could maneuver safely in flight with the additional wing model.  “It was incredible to see CATNLF fly after all of the hard work the team has put into preparing,” said Michelle Banchy, research principal investigator for CATNLF. “Finally seeing that F-15 tak...

Welcome to 10 Cool Papers, a new monthly roundup of recent research from across Carnegie Science. Each month, we'll feature a curated selection of recent papers from across Carnegie Science, chosen by our three division directors and the president. From early-career scientists to established investigators and recent alumni, our community is tackling the biggest questions about life, our planet, and our place in the cosmos.This first edition spans coral genomic resilience in a warming ocean, new CRISPR tools for studying symbiosis, hidden hydrothermal systems beneath Oregon’s Three Sisters volcanoes, pristine organic material from asteroid Bennu, and galaxies shining just 400 million years after the Big Bang.Let's dive in! 🦠 Biosphere Sciences & Engineering1. Editing Symbiosis: CRISPR i...

Your article (UK ‘could lose generation of scientists’ with cuts to projects and research facilities, 6 February) is right to highlight the serious consequences of proposed 30% funding cuts on the next generation of physics and astronomy researchers. The proposals also risk a generational destruction of the country’s ability to produce skilled graduates, retain specialist knowledge, and support physical science in industrial and educational settings.This comes against a backdrop of wider threats to university finances, from rising costs to declining international student numbers. An estimated one in four UK physics departments are already at risk of closure, and recent cuts and delays to Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) grants have further depleted finances and will result ...

Other additions, and other OSes Another iOS 26.3 update is also aimed at interoperability, though it may only apply to iPhones covered by European Union regulations. A feature called “notification forwarding” will send your iPhone’s notifications to third-party accessories, including Google’s Android-based Wear OS smartwatches. Once the setting is enabled, users will be able to decide which apps can forward notifications to the third-party device, similar to how Apple Watch notifications work. In current betas, Apple allows notifications to be forwarded to only one device at a time, and forwarding notifications to a third-party device means you can’t send them to an Apple Watch. Finally, both iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3 are introducing a feature for some newer devices with Apple’s in-house C1...

Browse my archive of Good Taste columns and subscribe to our newsletters, including Good Taste, for more weekend-exclusive food & drink news delivered to your inbox.  Ohlone people are the real OGs of the Bay Area. They never left the turf, they have a bright future—and you can actually taste it now. Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino are personal culinary heroes whose work I’ve followed since they started their Cafe Ohlone pop-up in a now-defunct bookstore across the street from the UC Berkeley campus in 2018. They’ve since started an official relationship of repair with the university, set up a seasonal restaurant on campus, and on Friday will debut the permanent ‘ammatka cafe inside Lawrence Hall of Science. “We recognize that the East Bay Ohlone people are not people of the ...