Articles by Mark R. Whittington

Trump Class Battleships Could Get Megawatt Lasers: Navy’s Top Officer

Iranians Just Want a Normal Country

Need to Escape Socialism? Come to Florida!

California commits economic suicide as tech investors flee wealth tax

Treatments for Huntington's Disease Are Finally on the Horizon

Just One Gene May Be Responsible For Over 90% of Alzheimer's Cases

My Country, Somaliland, Recognized

Selling a Home Is Too Taxing

America Is the Sole Superpower Again

Scott Adams and Cancer Progress

Where’s Congress on Russia Sanctions?

Recovering tropical forests grow back nearly twice as fast with nitrogen

To Study the Moon's Ancient Ice, We First Have to Pollute It

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

This Glowing Skin Patch Acts Like a “Check Engine” Light for Your Body to Warn You About Health Problems

China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed a Key Fusion Barrier and Physics May Never Be the Same

China Just Filed Plans for 200,000 Satellites, Challenging Elon Musk. It’s Likely a Geopolitical Space Grab

Blue Origin and Nimbus validate fuel cells for lunar life support

Scientists Have Discovered Something That Could Help Humans Live On The Moon

US to build nuclear reactor on moon by 2030: NASA

NASA funds new tech for upcoming 'Super Hubble' to search for alien life: 'We intend to move with urgency'

NASA chief shares vision of 'teeing up series of grand Artemis missions' to moon

‘Check Engine Light’ for the Human Body Could Tell You When to Go to the Doctor

Aliens might not have the same physics as us

Trump Explains How to Escape ObamaCare

ICE, Minneapolis and the Rule of Law

Our Moon Is Curiously Lopsided, And a Massive Impact Could Be to Blame

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

More people are living 5 years after cancer diagnosis, new data shows

A Startup Just Beamed Electricity from a Moving Airplane to Prove We Can Harvest Solar Power from Space

World’s Smallest Programmable Robot Fits on a Fingerprint Ridge and Carries Its Own Computer

Scott Adams is with the ages. RIP

More: Scott Adams left Behind an impressive body of work. #CommissionEarned

Iran Death Toll at 3,000; US Orders Citizens Out

Portugal signs the Artemis Accords Somewhere Prince Henry the Navigator smiles

Firefly Aerospace Announces Alpha Block II Configuration Upgrade for Flight 8

Hegseth, Musk vow to unleash tech innovation at Pentagon — and make ‘Star Trek real’

How to help NASA cope when DoorDash is 200 million miles away

California Shows How To Lose $1 Trillion Without Even Trying

It’s Almost ‘All Systems Go’ for Artemis 2 to Take the Next Giant Leap Toward Stepping on the Moon Again

Did the U.S. Use a “Secret Sonic Weapon” in the Maduro Raid? What We Know—and What Science Says

How To Live A Spiritual Life In A Scientific World. Part 1.

Britain Really Dislikes Elon Musk

Iran’s Regime Massacres Its Own People

You can now reserve a hotel room on the Moon for $250,000

POLITICO Wants You to Know That Italian Food is Fascist

Space is becoming an industrial economy

Applied lessons for NASA’s science programs

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

Infant gut bacteria may be the key to preventing asthma and allergies

Same-sex sexual behavior observed in dozens of primate species, suggesting evolutionary origin

DNA Found on 500-year-old Renaissance Art Could Belong to Leonardo da Vinci

Iran Foreign Minister to Trump: Call Me, Maybe? UPDATE: Action Teed Up?

Recall Mamdani

These pills can communicate from inside the stomach

Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science

Trump Captivates the Globe

The U.S. Could Make 2026 Even Worse for Putin Than 2025

Affirmative Action Is Finally Waning

Breads Lines in Mamdani’s New York

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned

The Supreme Court and Girls’ Sports

Iran Protests: Over 500 Dead and 10,000 Detained, Activists Say

Microbes in bark ‘eat’ climate gases. This will change the way we think about trees

Kawasaki Is Actually Sending That Robot-Horse into Production

The end is near for Iran’s mullahs

Why Turkey is building a space port in Somalia

Recently, Turkiye Today reported that Turkey is building a space port in Somalia. Two questions come to mind: Why a space port? And why Somalia?

Graham hints at US military action against Iran regime ‘soon’ as protests continue

Traces of Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA May Have Been Discovered on a Red Chalk Drawing Called Holy Child

Watch SpaceX launch NASA's Pandora exoplanet-studying satellite on Jan. 11

Here’s where NASA is looking for alien life in our solar system

Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned

‘I love science': NASA administrator defends decision to close Goddard library

When does the Nasa Moon mission launch and who are the Artemis II crew?

The Middle Class Is Shrinking Because of a Booming Upper-Middle Class

Just watched episode 1 of season 3 of Tehran. Without giving out spoilers, let's just say that Tamar is in big trouble. I also smiled that Hugh Lurie has shown up as a South African nuclear inspector. Great show. Highly recommended.

NASA to roll out rocket for Artemis 2 moon mission on Jan. 17

Elon Musk Relies on Gwynne Shotwell to Make SpaceX Soar

Elon Musk May Well Transform American Education Too

Trump has set the stage for an American comeback after Biden’s dismal economy

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

How Trump Makes Good on His Threat to Iran

The Iranian People Answer the Call

Internet service in Iran cut off or restricted as deadly protests reach a possible tipping point

UK lawmaker cites reports on Russian flights to Iran, gold airlift

China creates world’s first clone-hybrid rice that could double global output

How the trillions the UN is wasting on feel-good climate plans could be saving lives

Is Orion’s heat shield really safe? New NASA chief conducts final review on eve of flight.

Inside the Daily Life of a Doomsday Asteroid Hunter

Socialism is a hate crime

5% Growth? Or Even Better?

Winning the Red Planet race: Returning Mars samples before China should be a top US priority, experts say

The moon, AI and the high-stakes decisions shaping space’s future

SpaceX activates Starlink satellite internet in Iran to bypass blackout

Isaacman’s Tour de NASA

Natural Gas Is More Important and Cleaner Than Most Americans Realize

Trump should nominate Reaganite Arthur Laffer as new Fed chairman

Does California Want To Be Part Of The Nuclear Renaissance? 

Tim Walz Can’t Stop Fumbling

Can Iran Hold the Line Against Its Protesters?

NASA, in a rare move, cuts space station mission short after an astronaut’s medical issue

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

How Rich is Greenland? The Island Beneath the Ice May Hold Minerals and Oil Worth Trillions

A Tiny Chip Placed Beneath AI Processors Could Cut Data Center Power Use by 50 percent

This Mysterious Hole on Mars Could Be Key to Keeping Astronauts Alive There

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement

SpaceX prepares world’s most powerful rocket amid pressure to meet moon goals

NASA Rockets Toward Artemis 2 Launch With Possible SLS Rollout Next Week

NASA considering bringing astronauts home early from International Space Station due to medical issue

Mamdani’s tenant advocate Cea Weaver needs to be evicted from her job after showing hateful true colors

Fusion power nearly ready for prime time as Commonwealth builds first pilot for limitless, clean energy with AI help from Siemens, Nvidia

The golden age of vaccine development

A Two-State Solution for Somalia

The Pentagon’s Patriot-Missile Realism

The Iranian Protests Escalate

Cea Weaver and the Socialist Crybullies

New material changes color and texture like an octopus

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

New dietary guidelines urge Americans to avoid processed foods and added sugar

Scientists Are Building Fake Beaver Dams to Help Burned Forests Heal

Astronomers Discover Cloud-9: A Bizarre New Cosmic Object That Formed Like A Galaxy But Never Made Stars

Hidden or Revealed? Two New Guides for the Perplexed

Here are the launches and landings we’re most excited about in 2026

PR Fallout of Venezuela: The GOP Now Has a Clear Path to Win the Midterms

SpaceX stacks Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship megarocket's 12th test flight

When will SpaceX launch Starship for 1st time in 2026? What to know

U.S. must guard NASA’s future as China eyes space dominance | Opinion

NASA's 1st human moon mission in 50 years could be month out. What to know

Billionaire NASA chief will allow ‘exceptional’ employees to fly in his privately-owned fighter jet

Houston deserves a Space Shuttle, but not like this

The Isaacman era begins at NASA

Democrats and the Newsom Temptation

Invade Greenland? Why?

AI-generated sensors open new paths for early cancer detection

Microsoft works with major US electric grid operator to modernize the Midwest power system

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Iran anti-government protests spread to majority of provinces, videos show

British Scientists Are About to Test a Vaccine Designed to Stop Lung Cancer Before It Starts

Scientists Put Human Gut Bacteria Into Mice and Found Their Brains Showed Primate-like Activity

Private equity deal shows just how far America’s legacy rocket industry has fallen

Türkiye starts construction on Somalia space port after feasibility work: Minister

After missing multiple deadlines, Gaganyaan’s first uncrewed mission likely to lift-off by March

China’s astronauts complete cave training amid preparations for moon missions

NASA Selects Tech Proposals to Advance Search-for-Life Mission

Tricorder Tech For Everyone: NASA’s STELLA Open Science Instrument

From moon dust to moon colonies

China's next moonshot: Chang'e 7 could search the lunar south pole for water this year

NASA’s science budget won’t be a train wreck after all

Reversing Alzheimer's?

Four Myths About the Capture of Nicolás Maduro

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

Welfare Fraud Takes Out Tim Walz

Nvidia wants to power robotaxi fleets with chips, software by 2027

Scientists Are Testing a Fentanyl Vaccine. Here’s How It Would Work

Too Fun to Check: Khamenei About to Take the Money and Run?

NASA begins infrastructure overhaul under Isaacman as Trump pushes ambitious space exploration goals

Moon rush: These private spacecraft will attempt lunar landings in 2026

From The ‘School Of Elon Musk’ To Billion-Dollar Startups: Meet SpaceX’s Alumni Founders

SpaceX, Private Ventures Fuel Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Dreams

NASA’s 3 million dollar “lunar recycle” bet could change how we deal with trash on and off the Moon

Why giving up alcohol may be the key to slowing down ageing

Fusion Ignition Breakthrough: Energy Researchers Report Tokamak Experiments That Exceed Mysterious ‘Plasma Density Limit’

The Kinship Between Israel and Somaliland

Cubans Rejoice at Maduro’s Ouster

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned

No Secret School Gender Transitions

Trump’s Regime Change in Venezuela

A 2,300-Year-Old Helmet from the Punic Wars Pulled From the Sea Tells the Story of the Battle That Made Rome an Empire

In 2026, NASA’s return to the moon goes into high gear

If 2022 was the year the return to the moon officially started with the uncrewed flight of Artemis I, 2026 will be the year it goes into high gear.

Astronaut Jared Isaacman Appointed NASA Administrator, A Historic Turning Point

AI can lower energy bills with data centers that power themselves

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

Trump says US is taking control of Venezuela’s oil reserves. Here’s what it means

Watch What You Say or ‘Two Tier Keir’ Might Put You Away

Maduro Is Gone. What’s Next for Venezuela?

To explore space, scientists want to turn the moon into a gas station

What Would A SpaceX Public Offering In 2026 Look Like?

After half a decade, the Russian space station segment stopped leaking

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Ozempic Melted Away Weight—and the Idea of ‘Body Positivity’

Trump Stands With Iran’s Protesters

US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country

Black Gold Has Frustrated California Cultists Weeping in Their Chai Tea

Orion Capsule’s Maker Set To Offer Moon Treks To Spacefarers Worldwide

Rockets projected onto Washington Monument for America's 250th

‘Russian argument proves the Moon landings weren’t fake’

Elon Musk Says His 'Wealth' Is Tied To Tesla, SpaceX Shares, Criticizes 'Taker' Bernie Sanders

NASA's Artemis II mission aims to return astronauts to moon in 2026

How AIDS Helps Cure Cancer

Trump says US will intervene if Iran starts killing protesters: ‘Locked and loaded’

About the New Iranian Protests

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

Gavin Newsom Has a Wealth Tax Dilemma

Researchers make “neuromorphic” artificial skin for robots

These notable works are officially in the public domain as 2026 arrives

Iran grinds to standstill as protestors take to the streets, crowds chant ‘Death to Khamenei’

What SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab and others have in store for 2026

SpaceX shatters its rocket launch record yet again — 165 orbital flights in 2025

An Artemis Outreach Goal For NASA

Heartland President Explains: Solar Is 10 Times More Expensive Than Gas

California scapegoats billionaires for its reckless budgeting

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Fusion Power Has a Bright Future, but It’s a Ways Off

Could time travel actually be possible? One researcher thinks so

Old Solar Panels Built in the Early 1990s Are Still Going Strong After 30 Years at 80% Original Power — And That’s a Big Deal for Our Energy Future