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When I was a kid, in Colorado in the nineties, I’d scour the pet listings in the Sunday classifieds section of the now defunct Rocky Mountain News, hoping that if I could find just the right candidate my parents might…
Now that Washington’s long-time nemesis Muqtada al-Sadr appears to have scored a surprising victory in this week’s national elections in Iraq, it is unclear how that will square with the Pentagon’s seemingly open-ended commitment to keeping that country’s military afloat.…
Get your telescopes ready, people: asteroid 2010 WC9 will be flying by Earth at the terrifying speed of 28,655 mph this Tuesday at 6:05 p.m. EDT. The asteroid, which was first discovered in 2010 by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, will be…
The experimental new treatment, being developed by researchers from the Moscow-based Russian National Research Medical University, has been successfully tested on cancer-afflicted lab mice, showing a nearly 70% increase in the animals’ lifespan. The drug consists of magnetite nanoparticles laced with a…
But are these violins actually better than modern ones? One study pitted old Italian violins like Strads against modern violins in a blind test to see if musicians could tell the difference. Turns out most violinists couldn’t reliably tell the…
In the Nebraska primary election on Tuesday, voters will pick their candidates for what is expected to be one of the most competitive House races in the country — and for a Senate race that could be close if the…
