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How the White House Killed Two Presidents
Working in the White House in the 1840s may have been more hazardous than we thought.
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How the White House Killed Two Presidents
Working in the White House in the 1840s may have been more hazardous than we thought.
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The Insurance Industry Can't Weather Another Wildfire Season
Remember the 2008 Financial Crisis? Experts warn that the same thing may be happening again, but this time, CLIMATE CHANGE is the culprit. Increasing natural hazards, from wildfires and hurricanes to rising sea levels and catastrophic...
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Operation Popeye
In 1967, during the Vietnam War, the U.S. launched a covert mission aimed to extend the monsoon season in Vietnam. Operation Popeye was the first military attempt to manipulate the weather.
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Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde, a trailblazing Black feminist, poet, and essayist, passionately explored intersectionality, identity, and activism, leaving an enduring impact on literature and social justice.
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NASA X-ray telescope detects biggest ever space explosion: study
Astronomers say they caught a glimpse of the biggest explosion in the cosmos ever observed by X-ray and radio telescopes.
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Radiation leak at China’s Taishan Nuclear Plant
An ‘imminent radiological threat’ has been reported at Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in China’s Guangdong province.
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US voting machines and other important votes
This year most Americans will cast their votes using an optical scan or e-voting machine. Sixty percent of the U.S. now uses optical scanners. Voters shade in their selections on paper ballots and then feed them into optical scan...
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NASA renames its next-gen telescope after woman chief astronomer credited with launching the Hubble telescope
NASA has renamed its next-generation Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope after Nancy Roman, the agency’s first chief astronomer known as the Mother of Hubble.
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U.S. creates first ever coupled quantum dots
Coupled quantum dots — which act like artificial atoms that share an electron — could potentially form a robust qubit to revolutionize computing.
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U.S., China conducting multiple military exercises near Taiwan
The U.S. and China have conducted numerous exercises in the Pacific over the past few weeks, stoking fears of a looming confrontation over Taiwan.
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U.S. and U.K. agree to help Australia build nuclear-powered submarines
The U.K., U.S. and Australia have announced a security pact aimed at confronting China, whereby Australia will be provided with the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines.
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Huge international fleet conducts drills around Taiwan and South China Sea aimed at China
Three aircraft carriers from the U.S. and U.K. combined with a helicopter carrier from Japan to conduct exercises north of Taiwan in the same weekend that China made a record number of incursions into Taiwan’s air defense zone.
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Russia conducts largest military exercises since Cold War off Hawaii
Russia has conducted its largest military exercises since the Cold War off the coast of Hawaii.
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Amazon halts police use of its facial recognition technology
Amazon announced that it will ban police use of the company’s facial recognition tool Rekognition for a year, in a blogpost dated Wednesday.
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The next global arms race?
America and Russia have pulled out of the INF, a cold war-era weapons treaty. Why is this significant and what does this mean for global stability?
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Alphabet launches internet-streaming balloons for commercial operations in Kenya
Alphabet Inc has launched stratospheric balloons to broadcast WiFi signals over Kenya in its first-ever commercial operation
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Arctic warming likely causing cold waves in North America
Accelerating Arctic warming as a part of global warming is likely responsible for severe winter weather like powerful snowfalls and abnormal cold spells in the northern hemisphere.
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Novel coronavirus could be a hybrid of bat and pangolin viruses: study
Explainer: How bat and pangolin coronaviruses may have recombined to create SARS-CoV-2
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U.S. company to open first ever human composting facility in 2021
US-based company Recompose will start the first ever funeral service that turns human bodies into compost soil next year.
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E.U. refugee crisis ‘part of Russia’s plan to invade Ukraine’
Ukraine’s intelligence chief says Moscow created a refugee crisis in Poland to make it harder for Europe to fight back.
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U.S. COVID cases double due to delta variant and issues with vaccine rollout
The number of new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. has more than doubled in the last two weeks, with the delta variant proving difficult to contain and a divide forming between those who are vaccinated and those who are not.
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Pentagon war games included squashing domestic insurrection by young activists: report
The Pentagon conducted a war game in 2018 that pitted armed forces against a youth uprising dubbed Zbellion.
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January 2020 was the warmest in weather history
The past month was the hottest January in weather history, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.