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> At 124 meters long, the Pathfinder 1 is currently the largest aircraft in the… more
> Selling bonds—essentially issuing buyers an IOU, plus interest—is a quick way… more
> For more than 400 years, historians, myself included, have accepted the… more
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> We conclude that aid programs financed by American taxpayers saved… more
> The Pteronotus parnellii bat (Parnell's mustached bat) harbored the BRZ… more
> During sleep, the cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain helps to remove… more
> Bill Gates' shift from "doomsday" climate warnings to a focus on improving… more
> In the last week I have been challenged a half dozen times on why I am… more
> A comprehensive literature review conducted by the European Food Safety… more
> What the Brightline is best known for is not that it reflects the gleam of… more
> Starlink is not licensed to operate in Myanmar. While Dreyer didn’t say how… more
> For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted… more
> But my research group at Stanford University has managed what seemed… more
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> But in 2016, a bombshell study in Nature concluded that crumbling ice cliffs… more
> Financial information from NASA suggests the agency’s payments for launch… more
> Rondo Energy has begun commercial operations of what it says is the world’s… more
> We’re standing in the parking lot of McCormick's Palm Springs Classic Car… more
> SAY “POLLINATORS” and most people will think “bees”. They are correct, for… more
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> Over the past five years, criminals behind widespread romance and investment… more
> The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of… more
> As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum… more
> A novel partnership between the Oakland Unified School District and Oakland’s… more
> The summer of 2023 saw a surprising increase in global temperatures, even… more
> Base Power has sold more than 100 megawatt-hours’ worth of its home storage… more
> A bioswale is a ditch with vegetation and a porous bottom. The top layer… more
> In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City, the financial district, by… more
> Other countries haven’t seen this increase in pedestrian deaths: in every… more
> A man named Sean, who works as a military contractor—one of several Green… more
> The organoids also released some of the same hormones as true kidneys. And… more
> Contrails have a strong “effective radiative forcing” effect. This basically… more
> I didn't realize that the more popular texts didn't cover the details of… more
> In the new study, the team devised a system to continually and rapidly… more
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> Bowditch: [...] A spy there under our very roof was our babysitter, Klaus… more
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> After sustained campaigning in Britain, the Slavery Abolition Act came into… more
> Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for… more
> In the 1930s, the Los Angeles Welfare Department began deporting hospital… more
In Bret Devereaux's Fourth of July post, he starts with a bit of history just… more