Today Apple released new bug fix and security updates for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more. Though we still dont know which specific bugs were addressed by the new software, Apple has now shared that a single security fix was implemented in iOS 18.3.2, macOS 15.3.2, and visionOS 2.3.2.Security fix in iOS 18.3.2 addresses WebKit vulnerabilityIn an update to its support page for security releases, Apple has outlined the specific fixes implemented in its latest wave of software updates.It turns out, as regards security updates at least, theres only one issue that affected several of Apples major platforms.It involves WebKit security and applies to iOS and iPadOS 18.3.2, macOS 15.3.2, and visionOS 2.3.2 alike.Here are the details from Apple:Impact: Maliciously crafted web content may be able to break out of Web Content sandbox. This is a supplementary fix for an attack that was blocked in iOS 17.2. (Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 17.2.)Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved checks to prevent unauthorized actions.The WebKit vulnerability, as Apple mentions, has been around for a while as it was originally addressed by the company over a year ago in iOS 17.2.However, Apple apparently discovered that a supplemental fix was needed. Though the notes mention that the issue may have been exploited for select individuals, they are very clear that such a breach only took place pre-iOS 17.2. We can assume this means that Apple is currently unaware of any exploits that happened beyond its initial 2023 fix.Have you discovered any bug fixes or changes in iOS 18.3.2 beyond the security update? Let us know in the comments.Best iPhone accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

In spite of Elon Musk agitating for it, president Donald Trump isn't interested in making a crewed mission to Mars his "number one" priority.As SpaceNews reports, Trump was lukewarm on the goal of sending humans to the Red Planet during a Fox News interview."Theres a lot of interest in going to Mars," he told Fox News on Sunday. "Is it number one on my hit list? No. Its not really."That's despite declaring that the US would "plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond" during his speech to Congress earlier this month, a line that was met with plenty of applause.Trump also said during the Fox interview that he was "shocked" by the reaction to his remarks about planting a flag on the planet during his Congressional speech."There seems to be a big interest in it," he added.Now that Musk has infiltrated the Trump administration and installed himself and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency as the ones controlling the purse strings, the topic of traveling to Mars has become a major point of contention.For many years, Musk has made making humanity interplanetary his number one priority, going as far as to publicly call for NASA to give up its efforts to return astronauts to the Moon.Trump has previously sided with Musk on that point, writing in a 2019 tweet that "for all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon We did that 50 years ago.""They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!" he added at the time (it's unclear what he meant by the Moon being part of Mars.)But scrapping NASA's Artemis program, which was established during Trump's first term, could prove incredibly unpopular, with Congress members voicing concerns that giving up now could end up being extremely costly.Getting humans to Mars would likely end up being far more expensive. Preparing for the voyage could also take far more time than Musk has previously estimated.In September, Musk predicted that SpaceX's massive Starship rocket will start making regular trips to Mars in a matter of just two years."If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in four years," he added at the time.But given the most recent explosion of SpaceX's latest Starship prototype, the company is facing major headwinds in getting the rocket ready for its upcoming trip to the lunar surface, let alone Mars.It remains to be seen how Musk will react to Trump's cooling on Mars.Could differing opinions on where humanity should head next put further strain on their relationship? After all, Musk has seemingly made it his entire life purpose to get to the Red Planet as soon as possible.At least the two appear to be on the same page when it comes to gutting the federal government.NASA is reportedly facing an up to 50 percent cut to its science budget, which could end up being "nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science and exploration in the United States," according to Planetary Society chief of space policy Casey Dreier.Share This Article

President Donald Trump, defending the honor of his right hand man Elon Musk, has described boycotting Tesla as "illegal."Trump made the comments in a Truth Social post at midnight on Tuesday, after a day that saw a tanking stock price for Musk's automaker. Trump asserted that Musk is actually doing a "fantastic job!" with Tesla but that "Radical Left Lunatics" are "trying to illegally and collusively boycott" it."In any event, I'm going to buy a brand new Tesla tomorrow morning as a show of confidence and support for Elon Musk, a truly great American," Trump added.Tesla is currently facing a wave of protests and vandalism across the country, fueled by strong anti-Musk sentiment for the world's richest man's heavy involvement in gutting federal spending through his so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Demonstrators have gathered outside Tesla dealerships in the hundreds, while individual cars have been defaced with spraypaint or pelted with trash. Some Tesla locations have even faced apparent arson attacks.All the while, the electric vehicle manufacturer's sales in Europe have slowed at the start of the year, continuing the slump that gripped 2024. Worse, despite enjoying a surging stock price following Trump's election victory, Tesla shares have tumbled since January, culminating in a staggering 15 percent nosedive on Monday its steepest decline in five years. Musk's cash cow has now lost more than half of its value since peaking in mid-December, wiping out over $800 billion in market cap.In short, Tesla's not doing too hot right now which is why Trump, a billionaire, is making this grand gesture of buying a single one of its cars. (Related: doesn't he already have a gifted Cybertruck custom-wrapped in MAGA livery lying around somewhere?)Still, the president's assertion that boycotting Tesla is "illegal" is false and absurd. As CNBC notes, a 1982 Supreme Court decision held that nonviolent protests against private businesses, including boycotts, are protected by the First Amendment. Regardless, it's unlikely that automaker's faltering sales reflect any consciously organized boycott so much as its deteriorating image due to its CEO's controversial behavior.An amusing parallel: Trump's cries of illegality echo the kind of tantrum Musk threw when advertisers pulled out of his website X, formerly, Twitter, en masse. First, Musk told them to "go fuck" themselves then begged for them to come back. When the advertisers didn't, he sued them for colluding in an "illegal boycott" against his platform.Share This Article

You crack open a bag of Cheetos for a quick snack, and you'll likely devour most of them without ever looking at them or registering their shape.Then you feel the urge to look at one and you see that it is oddly shaped ... actually, it looks just like the Pokmoncharacter Charizard!That is exactly what happened to one lucky person, andGoldin Auctionsgotthe opportunity to list thisone-of-a-kind Cheeto that fans on TikTok have dubbed Cheetozard.Goldin.co/item/cheetozard-pokemon-charizard-shaped-cheeto-370g3pThe auction company put the Cheetoup for sale with the following description:Presented is a 3-inch long Flamin' Hot Cheeto in the shape of the Pokmon Charizard, affixed to a customized Pokmon card and encapsulated in a clear card storage box. It was initially discovered and preserved sometime between 2018-2022 by 1st & Goal Collectibles. The Cheeto surged in popularity on social media platforms in late 2024.How many people bid on this bad boy? According to AP News,more than 60 legitimate bidderspushed the bidding up tomore than $87,000 dollars it finally sold for $87,840, to be exact.Ironically, Charizard is adragon-like Pokmon, and this is not a regular cheesy Cheeto, but a Flamin' Hot Cheeto.So, what will the winner do with this Cheetozard?At that price, you can't really eat it maybe you just have to store it away and hope that ants, mice or rats don't get to gnawing on the plastic covering to get to the mighty Charizard Cheeto.Beloved 90s Foods You Can Still EatWhen people hear the phrase 90s foods they think of these 20 items all of which are still sold today.

Shohei Ohtani, the LA Dodger slugger who won the National League MVP last year, is a baseball superstar and a global phenom for the sport. He's also going to be the first MLB player to make his way into Fortnite.An Ohtani skin will be available for purchase in the Fortnite Shop starting on March 17, according to developer Epic Games on Monday. The 17th was chosen to match Ohtani's uniform number.Two bundles featuring Ohtani are coming on March 17. The first includes the slugger in his Dodgers uniform in the home and away colors and a Lego style. This bundle includes a Decoy Back Bling, a bobblehead modeled after Ohtani's dog and a Trusty Two-Way Pickaxe. Epic GamesThe second bundle features Ohtani in a samurai outfit. It includes a Samurai Screamer Back Bling that turns fiery after you eliminate a player and a Baseball Batana Pickaxe. Epic GamesNew emotes, the Doggy Dingers and the Hey Batter Batter, will also be available for purchase.Epic has yet to provide prices for the skins and emotes. Skins usually cost 1,000 to 1,200 V-Bucks, the in-game currency of approximately 100 per $0.90, making the skin cost $9-$11. Emotes, pickaxes and back bling cost between 200 and 500 V-Bucks each. The bundles that include skins and other cosmetics range from 1,500 to 2,000 V-Bucks.Along with the skins and emotes, Epic is releasing a series of quests for players on March 18 that will run until the end of Chapter 6, Season 2. Completing these quests will reward players with XP to unlock more items on their Battle Pass or other passes for the game. The quests are:Finish 3 matches in the Top 17Eliminate 3 players beyond 50 metersThrow 17 itemsDeal 54 damage to opponents with The KneecapperTravel 59 units of distance while sliding continuouslyEpic also plans for a Shohei Ohtani Cup on March 15. The tournaments will feature a series of single-player battle royale matches in a three-hour window in each region. Players compete in 10 matches, earning points for their placement within the match. Those players with the highest points can unlock the Shohei Ohtani Samurai skin early. To participate, players must have an account that is at least level 50 and have two-factor authentication.

Roomba-maker iRobot has added four new lidar-equippedrobot vacuum models to its 2025 lineup, bringing premium features to a more reasonable price. They include the Roomba 205 DustCompactor, the "world's first" robovac equipped with a compacting bin, which mechanically compresses dust and debris to save space in the dock. Imagine it as being similar to the trash compactors in a garbage truck."The net benefit to the consumer is you are going to get 60 days of hands-free maintenance without the need for the separate auto empty dock," Warren Fernandez, iRobot's director of product management, said.Fernandez told CNET that this feature, exclusive to the Roomba 205, will target people who may want to hide their robovac under their sofa -- meaning they don't want a large dock in their homes -- and avoid what some have described as the "jet engine noise" of an auto-emptying dock. The noise of the compacting bin won't "elevate itself above the noise the robot vacuum is already making."The new lineup has entry-level, midtier and premium robot vacuums. But just because you opt for a cheaper model, that doesn't mean you'll be missing the best features. Roomba 205 can vacuum and mop. iRobotPremium features are now standardThe Roomba 2025 lineup was developed based on an 18-month study of consumers across North America, Europe, Japan, Asia-Pacific and Latin America."Our portfolio strategy in '25 is really to enhance the Roomba family with a series of new products that are grounded in that consumer feedback, that 18 months of research, and that really carefully consider how to improve every aspect of the product experience," Fernandez said.The 2025 base and midtier models get new features along with ones that were previously reserved for iRobot's higher-end vacuums. Those features include the proprietary ClearView lidar navigation, new to iRobot's product lineup, which will allow the robovacs to better navigate homes and avoid obstacles, even in dark rooms. The Roomba 105 is low profile enough to slip under a couch and other low furniture. iRobotFernandez said lidar is a "real game changer, particularly for users who have perhaps been using a very old robot that may have been working on older technology.""This notion of a robot that kind of bumps into and runs over everything, that will be a thing of the past," he said. "This thing will very accurately detect all sorts of obstacles throughout your home, avoiding all of them."The new vacuums have an increased suction power of 7,000 pascals. iRobot said they have 70 times more power-lifting suction than the Roomba 600 series.SmartScrub is another feature that was once exclusive to iRobot's highest-end robovac but that's now coming to the 2025 Combo lineup. Enable it to target stubborn stains, which the robot cleans by "mimicking the motion that a human might do as you're kind of scrubbing something back and forth," Fernandez said.Breaking down the new iRobot Roomba lineupRoomba is taking a page out of the smartphone playbook by introducing entry-level, midtier and premium models. Here's what that will look like in the 2025 lineup: Roomba 105 can tackle edges with its spinning brushes. iRobotEntry-level: Roomba 105 and Roomba 205The Roomba 105 comes in two models: the 105 Vac a vacuum-only model for $299 or the 105 Combo combination vacuum and mop model for $319. You can get either with an AutoEmpty Dock for an additional $150. The AutoEmpty Dock now allows for an estimated 75 days of vacuuming before it needs to be emptied.The Roomba 205 DustCompactor will be available as a vacuum only (DustCompactor Vac) for $449 or as a combo model for $469 (DustCompactor Combo). Side note: the contents of the dustbin won't resemble a cube -- Fernandez said the emptying experience will be more traditional, similar to what you're used to if you already have a robot vacuum.These entry-level combination models can detect carpets but are limited in their autonomy when it comes to cleaning them. Fernandez recommended having the mop pads removed most of the time to allow them to focus on vacuuming, only adding them back on for mop jobs."If you leave the mopping pad attached, it's only going to clean the hard floor surfaces in your home," he said. The Roomba 205 has lidar capabilities and it can mop, but you'll want to swap mopping pads manually. iRobotMidtier: Roomba Plus 405 and Roomba Plus 505This tier has more powerful mopping capabilities, with dual spinning mop pads that autonomously lift 10 millimeters off the ground when carpets are detected. The docks will also autonomously wash and dry mop pads.The Roomba Plus 405 Combo Robot + AutoWash Dock will be available for $799. The Roomba Plus 505 Combo Robot + AutoWash Dock, at $999, offers further improvements over the 405. First, the mop pad extends to the side, allowing for improved edge and corner cleaning. The dock will also dry the mop pads with heat.Finally, and most notably, the Roomba 505 will have a front-facing Precision Vision AI camera for better navigation and obstacle detection. "This is a best of both worlds equation," Fernandez said. "The 505 Combo is taking all of the benefits of that ClearView Pro lidar and all of the benefits and know-how of our front-facing AI camera technology, putting them together to give you a hands down best-in-class mapping, navigation, not only obstacle detection, but object understanding."A quick note on poop: While Fernandez said that all of the 2025 lineup should be able to recognize and avoid pet waste (the company extensively trains its robots with fake poop of different shapes and sizes), he recommended the Roomba 505 to worried pet owners given its more powerful navigation and object recognition. Roomba 505 is better at avoiding accidentally mopping your carpet. iRobotPremium: Roomba Combo 10 MaxThe Roomba Combo 10 Max Robot + AutoWash Dock, launched in August last year, will retain its place as iRobot's premium offering. Its costs $1,400, but is currently available on sale through iRobot's website for $900. Its differentiating factor is the Auto-Retract Mopping System, which lifts the mop pad to the top of the robot when carpets are detected, as well as a dock that autonomously cleans both the robot and itself.Price and availabilityThe following robovacs will be available in North America at prices ranging from $299 to as much as $999.Roomba 105 Vac: $299Roomba 105 Combo: $319Roomba 105 Vac + AutoEmpty Dock: $449Roomba 105 Combo + AutoEmpty Dock: $469Roomba 205 DustCompactor Vac: $449Roomba 205 DusCompactor Combo: $469Roomba Plus 405 Combo + AutoWash Dock: $799Roomba Plus 505 Combo + AutoWash Dock: $999The new Roomba robovacs will be available for presale in North America starting March 18 on iRobot.com. Roomba 205 under furniture. iRobotThe new Roomba app aims to keep things simpleAlong with its new lineup, iRobot will also introduce The Roomba Home app (joining the existing iRobot Home app) that aims to simplify the act of cleaning people's homes."We don't want you to come into our app, look at a big, pretty picture of a robot and have to click on two or three sub menus to be able to do something," Fernandez said. "Let's be real: You're opening the app to clean your home, so let's jump right into your home."The new app, which only supports the new products, will introduce a reconfigured home screen. The top third will be dedicated to cleaning routines that are either user-generated or suggested by iRobot. Fernandez said you should just be able to tap one of those, and your robot will get to work. Roomba Combo 505 station. iRobotThe bottom two-thirds of the screen will feature a map of your home, which Fernandez said will be "actually actionable." As an example, he said that if he dropped some granola on the way to the office from the kitchen, he could quickly order his robot to conduct a "directed room clean" where the mess is.The new app will also better inform you of what your robot is doing at the moment, where it is and how much progress it's made in its current cleaning task. Finally, the app will provide proactive maintenance and troubleshooting, reminding you to replace and order filters, check the debris bag or clean the brushes."We give the user the opportunity to decide when they want to do that kind of preventative maintenance," Fernandez said.The new app will be available for download on iOS and Android. Roomba's 2025 lineup will be available across North America and select European markets beginning on March 18. Roomba 405 cleaning up after pets. iRobotThe future of iRobotiRobot's 2025 lineup -- "the largest and most comprehensive lineup in the company's 35-year history," according to a press release -- comes at a critical time for the Roomba maker.While its latest financial results released in November showed increased year-over-year revenues and reduced operating losses, the company laid off hundreds of employees last year after a planned acquisition by Amazon fell through. While it used to dominate the robovac market, iRobot has faced increased competition from rivals such as SharkNinja and Chinese companies, including Roborock. Chinese rival 3i will also introduce a combo robovac with a mechanical compression dustbin, the G10 Plus, which it exhibited at CES. It didn't specify pricing or a release date."Our ongoing restructuring has fundamentally changed the way we innovate, develop and build our robots, which is central to improving our performance and generating long-term shareholder value," iRobot CEO Gary Cohen said in the company's latest financial results release. "As we move forward in this new chapter in iRobot's history, one thing is abundantly clear: we have a powerful brand that will serve as the foundation for the turnaround of this company."

March 11, 20252 min readThese States Have the Most Climate-Friendly TransportationA report from the Natural Resources Defense Council looked at how states balanced transportation needs with climate and equity effortsBy Mike Lee & E&E News Downtown historic Bennington, VT lit at night with street lights and shop windows. Peter Blottman Photography/Getty ImagesCLIMATEWIRE | States on the East and West coasts are making better progress in cutting emissions from the transportation systems than the rest of the country.That's according to a report released Tuesday from the Natural Resources Defense Council. It highlighted those states' efforts in areas such as smart growth policies and the construction of electric vehicle chargers."On average, states earned the greatest share of available points on the metric that evaluated their ratio of nonroadway-expansion spending relative to total highway spending, as well as on the metrics that assessed their smart growth policies and EV fast-charge count," according to the report.On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.The group's research also found that states in the Southeast and Midwest lagged their coastal counterparts on most measures although there were some surprises in states such as Oklahoma.The latest report is the second time NRDC has conducted the study, and it comes as the new Trump administration pushes to eliminate federal support for climate action.The findings, coupled with the federal retreat on climate policy, underscore the critical role that states play in shaping transportation systems especially since states are largely in charge of building roads and other transit infrastructure, said Samantha Henningson, a senior transportation advocate at NRDC who worked on the report.It's more important than ever for states to step forward and build a system that's going to work for all of their residents," Henningson said.As part of the report, the states and the District of Columbia were evaluated on their progress on electrification, their use of mass transit and other alternatives such as bike lanes and sidewalks, and their progress on setting and meeting emissions-reduction goals.Other metrics included how well each state addressed emissions from concrete and other building materials it uses, and how much they spent on maintaining versus expanding their roads and infrastructure.Vermont scored the highest, followed by a cluster of states in New England, the mid-Atlantic and the West Coast. The top 10 in order: Vermont, California, Oregon, Washington state, Maryland, Colorado, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, Rhode Island and New York.Texas, which has historically focused on freeways to the detriment of other forms of transportation, scored the lowest. The other bottom 10 states were largely in the Southeast and Midwest. Kansas was the second lowest behind Texas, followed by Arkansas, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Nebraska, Idaho, Louisiana and Kentucky.At the same time, some Midwestern states got high marks for maintaining their systems, Henningson said. And Oklahoma performed well on one measure: reducing the number of vehicle miles traveled.Reprinted from E&E News with permission from POLITICO, LLC. Copyright 2025. E&E News provides essential news for energy and environment professionals.

OpinionMarch 10, 20255 min readStrong Scientific Leaders Must Speak Out against the Trump Administrations Science DenialThe U.S. National Academy of Sciences should denounce the antiscientific policies of the Trump administrationBy Charles F. Manski, Ray J. Weymann & Ben Santer edited by Dan VerganoNational Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. Alpha Stock/Alamy Stock PhotoAlong with much else, the election in November 2024 was a referendum on the kind of world that voters will provide to future generations, the passing of the baton in a relay race. We had hoped that the American people would seize the opportunity to pass the baton of science to a younger generationone which would tackle our many urgent problems, including the worldwide threats posed by climate change and potential pandemics.Regrettably, this turned out not to be the case. Instead, we are now confronted with a federal government that ignores the best-available science. The new administration has mounted a concerted campaign of intimidation, gutting funding for the scientific enterprise and firing thousands of dedicated scientists, among other vital civil servants.We are deeply concerned, as scientists, that in the face of these concerted efforts to unmake federally funded science, many major professional scientific societies have declined to speak out publicly. We are especially disturbed that the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the premier scientific society of the nation, has not yet pushed back against the antiscience policies of the new administration. The NAS has a special responsibility to speak out, having been established by an act of Congress in 1863 as an elected scientific society. It is governed by a 17-member council with an important missionto provide sound scientific advice to the government. We do not believe that the actions currently taken and proposed by the NAS president, which includes a working behind the scenes approach to influence the current administration, according to an e-mail sent to NAS members on February 24, 2025, are an adequate response given the immediacy and seriousness of the harms to U.S. science.On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.We are proud to be members of the NAS, but we are not proud of its present inaction. In these challenging and defining times, the National Academy of Sciences, of all scientific institutions, must speak up. Thousands of dedicated federal scientists working on critically important issues are being summarily dismissed. These dismissals hurt all Americansnot just those fired. The dismissals make us less safe, less healthy and less aware of how and why the world around us is changing.In 2016 and 2018, we wrote open letters on behalf of concerned NAS members that highlighted the dangers of ignoring scientific understanding in formulating public policy. We particularly called attention to the central role of science in formulating climate policy, which was being completely ignored by the first Trump administration. The 2018 letter was sent to every U.S. member of the NAS and was signed by 1,220 of them, comprising about 45 percent of all U.S. members. Both letters were grassroots efforts developed by NAS members, without official endorsement by the leadership. The letter writers and signatories were primarily concerned that mature scientific understanding was being incorrectly dismissed as a hoax or conspiracy by powerful politicians, with harmful consequences to all global citizens.Distressingly, the concerns that prompted the 2016 and 2018 open letters are even more valid today. Since 2018 the evidence for unequivocal human fingerprints on Earths climate system has become overwhelming. This evidence is at odds with incorrect claims that human-caused climate change does not existor that if it does exist, it is trivially small, or too uncertain, or too expensive to address, or should not be considered in formulating public policy. Infectious disease also became a prominent policy issue during the COVID pandemic, with highly publicized claims that vaccination against COVID widely threatened human health. Such claims had and still have no scientific basis. On climate change, COVID and many other scientific issues, U.S. citizens deserve more accurate information if they are to make informed decisions.The new Trump administration is now making an unprecedented effort to prevent science from informing public policy. In his first day in office, President Trump signed executive orders withdrawing the U.S. from participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change and from the World Health Organization. The new administration has subsequently acted to drastically limit support for climate and medical research performed by scientists in the federal government and in universities. In this emergency, it is not enough for the National Academy of Sciences to speak up from its grass roots, as in 2016 or 2018. It must now speak as an institution if it is to fulfill its responsibilities to the nation and maintain its relevance in the future. In the 2018 letter we wrote:Scientific evidence and research should be an important component of policymaking. We therefore call on the Federal Government to maintain scientific content on publicly accessible websites, to appoint qualified personnel to positions requiring scientific expertise, to cease censorship and intimidation of Government scientists, and to reverse the decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.We call on the NAS officers and council to endorse these statements without delay, and to call out the recent firings of thousands of federal scientists and the decisions to pause federal funding of critical research. Unless these actions are reversed, U.S. science will not be at the cutting edge of Vannevar Bushs Endless Frontier. His 1945 report coining that term, requested by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, set the U.S. on course for broad support of science to power its prosperity and security.As we said above, the presidential election in November 2024 was more than just a choice between two candidates or political parties. Some saw it as a referendum on the continued survival of democratic norms and institutions, or as a vote on the health of the economy. Others viewed the election as a referendum on immigration policy, abortion rights, the rule of law, national security, U.S. engagement with the rest of the world, access to affordable housing and health care, vaccination policy, the availability of cheap energy, and how to respond to climate change. Making informed decisions on many of these issues requires a strong scientific enterprise, and a strong voice from scientific leaders.Otherwise the baton of scientific leadership will have been dropped by the U.S. It will fall to other nations to pick it up and become leaders. Ironically, with all the concern that the present administration has shown concerning U.S. competitiveness with China, the present antiscience policies mean that the U.S. will not lead the race to develop and deploy cheap and efficient low-carbon energy sources to ameliorate climate change and novel vaccines to cope with future pandemics. We will lose capacity not only in climate science, clean energy and infectious diseases, but in many other realms of science and technology. Without a strong scientific enterprise, the U.S. will finish among the also-rans for decades to come.This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games hereThe latest Marvel Rivals patch notes have just dropped and while theyre not massive, there a number of fixes and tweaks that will certainly be welcomed by players. Arriving on March 13, the patch will bring with it a number of smaller general fixes, as well as some adjustments to heroes. Among them, Loki has been tweaked to stop his Ultimate Ability transformation sometimes causing incorrect camera angles. Elsewhere, the Winter Soldiers Tainted Voltage automatic reload issue has been fixed, which previously could fail to trigger after firing and immediately using his Troopers Fist ability. You can find the full patch notes below:General1. Fixed an issue where player names were incorrectly displayed in the Competitive voice chat overlay when Hide Own Name was enabled.2. Resolved a problem where frame rate affected sensitivity, leading to unusual behavior.3. Fixed an issue where messages containing quotation marks sometimes might fail to send.Maps and Modes1. Fixed several terrain issues that could cause characters to become stuck or clip into strange areas.Heroes1. Lokis Deathly Illusions: Resolved an issue where Lokis Ultimate Ability transformation could sometimes cause incorrect camera angles during Past Lives replays. The God of Mischief can now enjoy his dramatic exits without a hitch!2.The Things Battlefield Blues: Fixed a discrepancy in the speed of the Embattled Leap across different player views under poor network conditions. No more inconsistenciesBen Grimm is back to leaping at normal speed!3.Venoms Aerial Anomaly: Addressed a bug where Venom could occasionally get stuck in mid-air after using his Ultimate Ability under poor network conditions. Now, hell burrow underground with style instead of hanging around like a confused symbiote!4.Peni Parkers Perdu Predicament: Fixed an issue where Penis Arachno-Mines would become invisible when brushing over Cyber-Webs but landing outside of them. Now, her traps beyond webs remain visible, ensuring enemies are aware of the sticky situation!5. Penis Spiders Sneaky Escape: Resolved an issue where the self-destructing Spider-Drones from Peni Parkers Bionic Spider-Nest would penetrate the floor to seek out foes when webs were present above and below. Now, these little guys know their placeno more sneaky escapes!6.Spit vs Sea: Fixed a rare issue where if Namor unleashed his Ultimate Ability while still in the air after being spat out from Jeff the Land Sharks Ultimate Ability, there was a small chance that it would do no damage.7.Buckys Reload Rumble: Resolved a bug where the Winter Soldiers Tainted Voltage automatic reload could fail to trigger after firing and immediately using his Troopers Fist ability. Buckys firepower is now as relentless as his mission for justice!8.Hand Hook Confusion: Fixed an issue where if the Winter Soldier used Bionic Hook during the slow-motion match over moment, it could cause abnormal arm model display in the next round. Now, Buckys got his lookand his lethal armback on point!9.Wolverines Claw Coordination: Resolved a rare discrepancy between his animation and effects when Wolverine executed the dive of his Ultimate Ability from the highest point. Now, when Logan strikes, its as precise and impactful as his adamantium claws!Subscribe to our newsletters!By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime.Share

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