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Fossil Fuel Divestment: Does It Actually Cut Carbon?

When Ethos formally excluded companies developing new oil and gas projects, it reignited a hard empirical question: does fossil fuel divestment reduce carbon emissions, or just shift ownership? A decade of climate finance research offers a nuanced answer. James Loftus - June 17, 2026

Blue Origin New Glenn: Why NASA’s Moon Plan Depends on It

A ground-test explosion destroyed Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket and damaged its Cape Canaveral launch pad — putting real pressure on NASA's 2028 Artemis IV lunar landing schedule. Blue Origin says it will fly again before year's end; here's why that timeline matters and whether it's credible. Asher John - June 17, 2026

Mayo Clinic & NASA’s STEM Program Trains 1,000+ MN Students

The Innovation Scholars program has placed more than 1,000 undergraduates from 15 Minnesota private colleges inside Mayo Clinic and NASA, training students to both conduct research and evaluate its commercial viability—a dual model few programs attempt at the undergraduate level. Alexander Gabriel - June 17, 2026

NASA X-59 Supersonic Plane’s Quieter Sonic Boom Explained

NASA's X-59 broke the sound barrier at Mach 1.4 on June 12, 2026—and the shockwave it produced was closer to a car door closing than the window-rattling boom that banned supersonic flight over the U.S. in 1973. Here's the engineering behind that achievement. Will Lewis - June 17, 2026

Firefly Aerospace’s $75M NASA Moon Drone Mission

NASA's $75 million MoonFall contract tasks Firefly Aerospace's Elytra spacecraft with acting as a deep-space drone carrier, releasing four autonomous hopping robots from lunar orbit 50 kilometers above the Moon's South Pole. Because the Moon has no atmosphere, these 'drones' fly on rocket thrust — not aerodynamic lift. James Loftus - June 16, 2026

Farmed Salmon Omega-3: More Out Than In, New Study Finds

A new study using a nutritionally focused metric called neFIFO finds that farmed Atlantic salmon in the Faroe Islands can deliver more edible omega-3 to human plates than the marine ingredients used to raise them — directly challenging aquaculture's fish-in, fish-out reputation. Asher John - June 16, 2026

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