Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
A new type of 300 millimeter wafer with semiconductor chips and finished microchips of the semiconductor German manufacturer Bosch are seen in Dresden, eastern Germany on May 31, 2021 (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER/AFP via Getty Images)
The logo of video-sharing platform TikTok, also known as Douyin, is seen during TikTok art creation forum on March 17, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
A researcher works in a lab that is developing testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus at Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation on February 28, 2020 in Nutley, New Jersey (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images)
Medical laboratory scientist, Aniela Sobel, tests serology samples from the Novavax phase 3 Covid-19 clinical vaccine trial at the UW Medicine Retrovirology Research Lab at Harborview Medical Center on February 12 (Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images)