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As The New Yorker continues to evolve and expand, particularly online, the editors here spend a not-insubstantial amount of time thinking about its identity. What makes The New Yorker, well, The New Yorker? As I look back on our most-read…
After flooding the US market with oil in recent months, Saudi Arabia reportedly plans to downgrade exports of crude oil. US-based oil refiners were told to expect a much lower shipment from Saudi Arabia in January than in recent months, following the OPEC agreement to reduce…
While a collision with an asteroid led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, a new hypothesis suggests that radiation from an ancient star explosion might have wiped out most prehistoric ocean life, including the famous Megalodon shark. The theory, which…
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Orion spacecraft completed a successful cold weather ground test of a launch abort system, aerospace giant Northrop Grumman said in a press release. “Today’s test firing of the Northrop Grumman-manufactured launch abort motor in Promontory, Utah, confirmed the…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The decision of UK OneWeb company to scale back the constellation of its communications satellites will not affect the number of Russia’s Soyuz carrier rockets contracted by the company for the launches, a source in the space…
Several years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a Siberian cat to a Japanese governor to express gratitude for an Akita Inu puppy gifted by the government of Akita prefecture. Norihisa Satake, the governor of Akita prefecture, has shared with Sputnik how…
