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The criminal probe was a significant escalation in the yearslong effort to police serial pollution offenses by Virginia-based Southern Coal and dozens of affiliated mining operations controlled by the family.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

SpaceX, you may know, is the biggest company controlled by Elon Musk, so if you buy its shares, you’re buying into his vision.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Although the experiments were performed under carefully controlled laboratory conditions and remain limited to nanoscale systems, the work represents an important advance from theoretical predictions to real-world demonstration.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

While Chinese robots have produced some impressive displays, they have taken place in highly controlled or structured environments – the antithesis of real-world warfare.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

The controlled binding and unbinding of iron and oxygen—the cyclical rusting and unrusting of blood—allows effective oxygen delivery into tissues.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee