New Evidence from Ancient Rocks Ties Mini Ice Age to Rome’s Fall
Iceland’s Iceberg Rocks Reveal a Forgotten “Mini Ice Age”—And Its Role in Rome’s Collapse By Michael Le Page On a remote beach in Iceland, a scattering of out-of-place stones has
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California Forever: The Story Behind a Tech Billionaire’s Instant City
Silicon Valley’s Grand Plan to Build a City From Scratch—And Why Locals Hate It By Annalee Newitz For years, a shadowy investment group called Flannery Associates quietly bought up vast
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Identity of Cannibalism Victims on Franklin Expedition Finally Revealed
DNA Solves 170-Year-Old Arctic Mystery: Identified Sailor Was First Known Cannibalism Victim in Doomed Franklin Expedition By Jeremy Hsu After nearly two centuries of mystery, science has finally put a
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The Nobel Prizes still don’t reflect the full spectrum of scientific voices
Nobel Prizes Keep Ignoring Women and Black Scientists – And It’s Getting Old By Alexandra Thompson Another year, another round of Nobel Prizes in science. And once again, the winners’
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Why we should challenge the stereotype of hypersexualized Asian female robots.
Rethinking the Future: Confronting Techno-Orientalism in Sci-Fi and Society By [Annalee Newitz] When we imagine the future through the lens of sci-fi, we often expect bold innovation, dystopian struggles, and
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Real meritocracy requires removing barriers, not overlooking them.
The False Promise of Meritocracy: Why Eliminating DEI Programs Undermines True Excellence In the winter of 1789, a mysterious mathematics student began submitting extraordinary work to Joseph-Louis Lagrange, one of
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How 20th-century futurism veered sharply right.
The Dangerous Legacy of Futurism: How a 1909 Car Crash Still Shapes Our Broken Tech Dreams The night air hung thick with cigar smoke and the metallic tang of spilled
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Thousands rally across the U.S. to support science.
Global Outcry for Science: Researchers Stage Unprecedented Worldwide Protests Against Funding Cuts From the cobblestone streets of Paris to the sun-drenched plazas of Sydney, an extraordinary sight unfolded last week
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NOAA ends monthly climate and weather briefings.
NOAA’s Climate Briefings Go Silent Amid Staff Cuts and Growing Political Pressure For decades, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration held monthly briefings to explain complex climate patterns
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Euclid telescope spots 26 million galaxies in first data release.
Euclid’s Cosmic Treasure Trove: How a Space Telescope is Rewriting the Rules of Galactic Discovery Beneath the velvet black of space, a revolution in cosmic cartography is unfolding. The European