Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
American and Australian C-17 Globemasters take part in an aerial maneuver training mission in Honolulu, Hawaii, on May 4, 2022. (US Airforce photo by Makensie Cooper)
People protesting against China's Zero-COVID policy in solidarity with Urumqi people at Tiananmen Memorial in Chinatown, Boston, on December 2, 2022. (Tang Ka Huen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Visitors look at Alibaba DAMO Academy’s core components of quantum computer during the Apsara Conference 2021 on October 19, 2021, in Hangzhou, China. (Photo by Long Wei/VCG via Getty Images)