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A T. Rex Named ‘Gus’ Just Sold for $50M — Who Really Owns Dinosaur Fossils?

When 'Gus' the T. rex fetched $50.1 million at Sotheby's in 2026, it broke an auction record and reignited a fundamental legal question: in the U.S., fossils found on private land can be sold like any commodity — a framework scientists argue was never built for 70-million-year-old irreplaceable specimens. Will Lewis - August 19, 2026

Phobos Is Cracking Apart as It Spirals Toward Mars — Here’s Why

Asaph Hall discovered Phobos on August 17, 1877 — and scientists now confirm Mars's inner moon is slowly spiraling to its destruction, cracking under tidal forces with roughly 50 million years left. James Loftus - August 19, 2026

RS-25 Engine: Built for the Shuttle, Now Powering Artemis to the Moon

NASA's most powerful rocket relies on the RS-25, a 1970s-era staged-combustion engine built at a 350-person Aerojet Rocketdyne facility in Mason, Ohio — and the agency has called that workforce mission-critical to Artemis and beyond. Asher John - August 19, 2026

JWST Finds Ancient CO2 Trapped in Callisto’s Billion-Year-Old Craters

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a faint, localized veil of carbon dioxide on Callisto, Jupiter's most cratered moon — a signal scientists believe is locked inside impact scars that have gone untouched for billions of years. Alexander Gabriel - August 18, 2026

Global Shipping Chokepoints: 5 Straits That Could Crash the Economy

The Strait of Hormuz dominates headlines, but a new Oxford Economics study identifies five maritime chokepoints — including Suez, Bab el-Mandeb, and Malacca — where a single disruption could trigger a global economic crisis within days. Will Lewis - August 18, 2026

25 Oil-Tied Groups Filed Supreme Court Briefs to Kill a Climate Lawsuit

A new Consumer Watchdog report reveals that every one of the 25 organizations filing amicus briefs to dismiss a landmark climate deception lawsuit against Suncor and ExxonMobil carries documented financial or organizational ties to the defendant oil companies — exposing a coordinated legal infrastructure operating under the guise of independent expertise. James Loftus - August 18, 2026

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