We will start with the cabinet roles, which require approval from the US Senate. If four Republican senators and all the Democrats disagree to any individual, then that nomination will fail.

As of February 3, 2025, nine Cabinet members had been confirmed. Thirteen Cabinet members had not yet been put up for confirmation votes. A presidential Cabinet is a group of senior federal officials ...

The union cabinet has approved a Rs11,440-crore revival plan for Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL), which operates the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) in Andhra Pradesh, the only offshore steel ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, insisted in her Senate confirmation hearing that ...

Materials innovation is one of the key drivers of major technological breakthroughs. The discovery of lithium cobalt oxide in the 1980s laid the groundwork for today’s lithium-ion battery technology.

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The fires raging in Los Angeles have destroyed thousands of structures, and the death toll is rising. Along with the wildfires, residents must deal with other hazards: smoke and ash. Smoke is made of ...

But that magnetism can only occur in a system that lacks a specific symmetry—one that the team's new material should have had. "So the fact that we saw this was very puzzling. We didn't really ...

Ferroelectric domain walls enhance superconductivity in 2D materials Study reveals unique electron-phonon coupling mechanism in TMDs Findings suggest new pathways for designing superconducting devices ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2024, superconductivity—the flow of electric current with zero resistance—was discovered in three distinct materials.

Trump has chosen people for most Senate-confirmed Cabinet-level jobs, including some surprising and controversial picks, and he’s picked a chief of staff and a national security adviser—key ...