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Northwestern Engineers Made a 'Phantom' Drone That Vanishes in Plain Sight
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A wind turbine base is visible at Sunrise Wind offshore wind farm that is under construction off the coast of Montauk Point, New York, April 23, 2026.
Energy
Trump Cites National Security to Stop Offshore Wind Development
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Quad/Graphics Plans New Packaging Manufacturing Facility in Utah
It will complement existing facilities in South Carolina and Wisconsin.
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Ruma Aktar, a sewing machine operator, wears her prescription eyeglasses while working at a garment factory in Gazipur, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 30, 2026.
Manufacturing
Pairs of Glasses Are Boosting Productivity in Some Garment Factories
Operators who received reading glasses also made fewer errors.
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SpaceX's mega rocket Starship begins its take off but is aborted, in Starbase, Texas, Thursday, July 16, 2026.
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SpaceX Starship Launch Aborted on the Pad at the Last Moment
Some of the engines failed to ignite.
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Britain's Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Peter Kyle, left, and Swiss Federal President Guy Parmelin, Hotel Bellevue Palace, Bern, Switzerland, July 13, 2026.
Manufacturing
U.K. Nationalizes British Steel
The company’s Chinese owners had moved to shut the plant’s blast furnaces.
July 17, 2026
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This photo shared by Indian Ministry of Railways on X shows India's first indigenously built hydrogen-powered train named the “NaMo Green Rail,” at Jind, in the Indian state of Haryana, Thursday, July 16, 2026.
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