This year will be one of the hottest ever. It'll probably feature horrendous extreme weather, crop failures and a further crackdown on climate activism.
Environment
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Two massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighborhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles were totally uncontained on Thursday, authorities said, as shell-shocked residents began to pick through the charred wreckage ...
Environment
17 hours ago
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Last March, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget approved changes to the ethnic and racial self-identification questions used by all federal agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau. The changes include merging the ...
Social Sciences
18 hours ago
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"We take nothing by conquest…Thank God," wrote the National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, an influential Washington newspaper, in February 1847.
Political science
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As I write this, five people are dead and at least 1,000 buildings have been destroyed by wildfires that have swept across Los Angeles. Around 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate.
Environment
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Shell-shocked Los Angeles residents on Thursday surveyed the devastation from wind-whipped fires that have engulfed entire neighborhoods and claimed at least five lives, as forecasters warned of further dangerous conditions.
Environment
19 hours ago
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The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating and inhumane processes in human history. It is the subject of many studies, but the individual life histories of the arrival and survival of enslaved people in ...
Archaeology
19 hours ago
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If Tokyo-based Nippon Steel's proposed $14.1 billion purchase of U.S. Steel doesn't go through, the U.S. government should support the domestic steel industry the way it supports the development of semiconductors, a Northeastern ...
Economics & Business
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SpaceX completed its first launch from Kennedy Space Center for the year on Wednesday morning. A Falcon 9 carrying 21 Starlink satellites lifted off at 10:27 a.m. Eastern time from KSC's Launch Pad 39-A.
Space Exploration
23 hours ago
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Quantum computers require extreme cooling to perform reliable calculations. One of the challenges preventing quantum computers from entering society is the difficulty of freezing the qubits to temperatures close to absolute ...
Quantum Physics
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