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A SpaceX rocket section crashed into the Moon – we can’t let the Moon get polluted by space debris
The rocket section struck the lunar surface near Einstein crater on the Moon’s near side.
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Democrats have a working class voter problem that progressives like Abdul El-Sayed are still struggling to solve
Class-war rhetoric from Democratic candidates jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda, an expert on rural and working-class communities argues.
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AI is making disinformation harder to spot – but we’ve found a new way to catch it
As AI-generated text becomes harder to identify, the real clues lie in how online conversations are being manipulated.
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Trump administration revives conspiracy theories about Cuba’s alleged manipulation of activism in the US
A State Department report on this alleged problem is new, but its claims about alleged communist machinations being behind activist movements in the US are old.
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Can leaders ever reform prisons without playing politics? Four things Andy Burnham could do
What shapes leaders’ responses to issues of crime and justice is not that toughness wins, but that leniency-gone-wrong loses.
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India’s cockroach movement: how satire became political power as youth protest forced change
What started as a humorous tweet inspired a movement to force political change in India.
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White House plan for a ‘golden age’ of science ignores the structures that made the US a scientific superpower
A new White House science strategy, laid out in a report titled Science: A New Golden Age, challenges an 80-year-old model that made the US the global scientific leader.
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The moral paradox of extreme wealth: Why people oppose it yet are reluctant to take steps to reduce it
Extreme inequality is commonplace, so why do people accept it?
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The typical gig worker is changing – and struggling more than ever to make ends meet
For many gig workers, app-based work is no longer just about extra cash but economic need, a new survey finds.
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Australia’s Royal Commission into antisemitism a ‘$131 million whinge’
“Australians are not being investigated for hating Jews. They are being investigated for objecting to a genocide.” Michael West Media’s coverage of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism. COMMENTARY: By Andrew Brown Apparently antisemitism simply fell from the sky. Fully formed. Immaculately conceived. Entirely unrelated to anything happening in Gaza. That is the finding Australia has
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Does more vitamin D in pregnancy make children smarter?
A Danish trial found small memory gains at age ten, but no rise in intelligence and does not support a high-dose routine in pregnancy
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The psychology of overconfidence: why excessive self-belief is often a successful strategy in life
Most people are overconfident. There’s an evolutionary reason for this.