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< 1 mn readYou might want to keep your eyes on the skies for the next couple of months: Six planets will align in January and February. AccuWeather writes that Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will be visible every evening through the first half of February, and appear in a line across the sky. This is […]
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3 mn readOregon is becoming warmer and more prone to drought and will see less snow due to climate change, but people and businesses are also adapting to the challenges of a warming planet, the latest Oregon Climate Assessment indicates. The assessment, released today by the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University, shows that […]
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4 mn readThe modest recovery of recent years fails to mask Venezuela’s crisis: a shattered productive structure, poverty levels nearly three times the regional average, and profound inequality. The inauguration of Nicolás Maduro last Friday ushers in a new chapter for Venezuela, marked by deep socioeconomic wounds. The ongoing financial crisis — arguably the population’s greatest source […]
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5 mn readThe Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface during humanity’s closest approach to a star. The mission operations team, located at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, was able to confirm the success of […]
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4 mn readAs Supreme Court justices ponder the future of TikTok in the United States, a growing number of American social media users have responded by moving to an unlikely alternative: Xiaohongshu, a hugely popular social media app in China. The app, which means “Little Red Book,” often shortened by US users to RedNote, surged to the […]
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2 mn readTürkiye’s first flying-wing, deep-strike unmanned aerial vehicle has successfully performed its first in-flight weapons test using an internal weapons bay, its developer said on Monday. The Anka-3, equipped with an internally mounted guided munition, took to the skies and executed the test firing at an altitude of 20,000 feet while cruising at a speed of […]
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