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If the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives after the midterm elections next week, one of their biggest priorities will be majorly challenging the Trump administration’s national security and foreign policy. That could put significant pressure on President…
Take a step back and appreciate the vertiginous absurdity of the fact that our military is now being mobilized to defend our border from a walking caravan of refugees from Central America. There are, the Mexican government estimates, around 4,000…
When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, astronomers had discovered a few hundred exoplanets — planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. Surveying and studying these exoplanets is the first step to finding out if there’s a…
Smallpox is a horrendous disease that killed more than 300 million people in the 20th century alone, and millions more before that. But it’s a scourge of the past — the only human virus to have been eradicated. Remembering that,…
On Sunday, November 4, at 2 am, clocks will be turned back one hour, heralding the end of daylight saving time for much of the country. The biggest consequence: The change shifts daylight back into the morning hours. For 9-to-5…
From the perspective of today’s young music fan, the most unfathomable aspect of the past might be that we were once starved for images. You could listen to a cassette or a CD over and over, but staring at one…
