NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to make discoveries that challenge our understanding of the Martian environment. The latest puzzle confusing scientists is the variation of oxygen levels on the planet’s surface,[…]
A United Nations-backed report on climate change released on Wednesday is intensifying alarm about the world’s warming climate. More than 100 scientists spent the last three years looking at the[…]
Leaders from nearly 200 countries are attending a special United Nations Summit on climate change today. They are facing increasing pressure from citizens around the world to cut global greenhouse[…]
Andrew Yang’s surprised many with his assertion that people move away from the coast at the last Democratic debate. But that assertion is the completely rational and correct choice for[…]
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Gregory F. Reed is a professor and director of the Energy GRID Institute at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering. He recently warned that we could expect more[…]
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Our nation is getting ready to celebrate her Independence Day. There will be parades, food and fireworks from the East Coast to the West Coast. But pride in the U.S.[…]
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Necessity certainly is “the mother of invention.” And that is what is being played out in the Las Vegas school system today. The city of Las Vegas is allowing drivers[…]
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will reportedly meet with 9/11 first responders this week. This move follows backlash from advocates including comedian Jon Stewart over the September 11th Victims Fund. […]
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A Holocaust commemoration group invited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to tour the Nazi death camp Auschwitz with a 93-year-old survivor. Jonny Daniels, the founder of From The Depths, wrote the[…]
Arrests of people for harboring, sheltering, leaving food and water or otherwise protecting migrants have been on the rise since 2017. It was then that Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered[…]