December 2025 1 Table of Contents Recent Market Commentary and Outlook Market Volatility Is Normal Are We in an AI-Driven Tech Bubble? Stock Market Drivers: Economics The Global Economy Looks Normal Recent Layoffs in Context Stock Market Drivers: Sentiment Positive Surprise Powers the Market…

In a rousing keynote at AusIMM ’s 2025 Mineral Resource Estimation Conference, Dr Clayton Deutsch—director and professor at the School of Mining Engineering, University of Alberta —challenged the audience to confront a fundamental flaw in how mineral resource estimators approach their craft. His…

Please log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free Account My mid-March column aged like milk souring as tariff news swelled from trickle to torrent. U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffying April 2 “Liberation Day” announcement turned markets upside down and rocked investors worldwide. No one…

Executive Summary Pure Gold Mining Incorporated ("Pure Gold") is a Canadian gold mining company that is traded on the NEX, TSX Venture and the London Stock exchange. The focus of Pure Gold is the Madsen Gold Project, located in Red Lake, Ontario, Canada. Last year the company and the project made…

Ninety-two years ago this month, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic through…

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175383199 story Invisible, Super Stretchy Nanofibers Discovered In Natural Spider Silk (phys.org) Long-time Slashdot reader yet-another-lobbyist writes: Phys.org has an article on the recent discovery of super stretchy nanofibers in natural spider silk! The thinnest natural spider silk nanofibrils…

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On 19 June 2024, I was scheduled to give a lecture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Be’er Sheva, Israel. My lecture was part of an event about the worldwide campus protests against Israel, and I planned to address the war in Gaza and more broadly the question of whether the protests…

Bari here. In the early days of The Free Press, I put together a fantasy roster. Niall Ferguson was at the top of it. Today, I am thrilled to announce that Niall is joining The Free Press as a biweekly columnist. Niall’s résumé is a little much. He has two degrees from Oxford and has taught there as…

International | Autarky rules OK America, China and the battle for supremacy Photograph: Nick Little |Washington, DC FLOWS OF INFORMATION and energy underpin all economic activity, and advanced technologies support both. Hence the sky-high stakes in the tech wars between America and China. Started…

Cultural upheavals can be a riddle in real time. Trends that might seem obvious in hindsight are poorly understood in the present or not fathomed at all. We live in turbulent times now, at the tail end of a pandemic that killed millions and, for a period, reordered existence as we knew it. It…

In February 2020, your reporter published the following headline: Tesla’s China surprise big blow for cobalt, nickel price bulls In a surprise move, China’s top battery manufacturer CATL will supply Tesla with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for Model 3 production at its newly built $2…

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is proving to be a game-changer when it comes to medicine with the technology now helping scientists to unlock the first new antibiotics in 60 years. The discovery of a new compound that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium that kills thousands worldwide every…

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As she drives her electric vehicle to her mother’s house, Monique’s battery gauge indicates that it’s time to reenergize. She stops at a charging station, taps her credit card at the pump, inserts a nozzle into the car, and in 5 minutes exchanges 400 liters of spent nanofluid for fresher stuff. As…

In February, a Canadian cybersecurity firm delivered an ominous forecast to the U.S. Department of Defense. America’s secrets – actually, everybody’s secrets – are now at risk of exposure, warned the

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Abstract There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT. And there is also deserved concern about such technologies’ mat

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Terry Bouricius remembers the moment he converted to democracy by lottery. A bookish Vermonter, now 68, he was elected to the State House in 1990 after working for years as a public official in Burlin