Iran's nuclear program was a major topic in President Joe Biden's July 13–16, 2022 trip to the Middle East. The most challenging part of producing nuclear weapons is making the material that fuels them, and Iran is known ...
Political science
Jul 20, 2022
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A bomb cyclone is a large, intense midlatitude storm that has low pressure at its center, weather fronts and an array of associated weather, from blizzards to severe thunderstorms to heavy precipitation. It becomes a bomb ...
Environment
Jan 28, 2022
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During this pandemic, our twin health and economic crises require two different types of concern, and they operate differently.
Economics & Business
Apr 6, 2020
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The annual World Economic Forum in Davos brought together representatives from government and business to deliberate how to solve the worsening climate and ecological crisis. The meeting came just as devastating bush fires ...
Environment
Jan 28, 2020
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Scientific experts warned Congress more than a decade ago that just four teaspoons of radioactive cesium-137—if spread by a terrorist's "dirty bomb"—could contaminate up to 10 square miles of Manhattan.
Environment
Jan 2, 2020
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The schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of that year. The blockbuster saw a master oil driller (Willis) and an unlikely crew of misfits place a nuclear bomb inside a giant asteroid heading ...
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2019
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The so-called bomb cyclone that brought heavy snow, blizzard conditions and major flooding to the Midwest in March landed with a resounding meteorological "ka-boom!" and became one of two billion-dollar weather and climate ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2019
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Acts of terrorism are harrowing and can cause extensive damage and tragic deaths, and they have been occurring with alarming frequency over the last decade.
Social Sciences
Jan 4, 2019
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When it comes to watering walnuts, most California growers believe you need to start early to keep trees healthy and productive throughout the long, hot summer. But according to striking results from a long-term experiment ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 23, 2018
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Sir Barnes Wallis was a genius engineer who designed a very special bomb during World War II. The idea was that it would bounce across water and destroy German dams along the Ruhr Valley, causing massive flooding and damage ...
Engineering
Sep 20, 2018
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