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As lunar missions are back in vogue with engineering more sustainable human presence on the Moon in mind, there’s no getting away from the fact that you can’t breathe on a satellite that has no atmosphere.
Because iron could be used in tools, it was a technical and social revolution, especially for agriculture.
The idea of a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ is a myth that best serves idealists.
Latinos were the first Coloradans, and yet they are portrayed by the administration as intruders in an era of immigration enforcement.
Human therapists have a legal duty to warn authorities and potential targets when patients say they plan to harm someone. The same can – in theory – be required of AI chatbots .
Leo XIV released his first encyclical on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the 1891 papal document on the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.
When people harness the logic of natural selection, they can often find efficient and effective ways to solve complex problems.
When honey bees get sick, their beekeepers turn to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis lab for help. That crucial resource is now disappearing.
Even though annual precipitation is rising nationally, the landscape is drying out more rapidly. That’s changing the water cycle.
Salmon have faced a boom-bust cycle for years. Making their recovery last longer will require some big changes, including how hatcheries produce fish.
Medications used to perform abortions are also widely used to treat severe pregnancy complications, as well as several conditions unrelated to childbirth.
AI is now the machine deciding whether your payment goes through. And when it makes a mistake, the system isn’t designed to tell you why.