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03/10/2021 - 12:27

Every few years since 1990, we have evaluated our progress through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) scientific... →

25/09/2021 - 13:16

In the same period, temperatures of 45C and above occurred on average an extra two weeks a year. "The increase can be 100% attributed to... →

20/09/2021 - 13:12

Speaking on his approach to growing his fans, he says that, if a picture doesn’t receive a certain number of ‘Likes’ within a set time, it... →

15/09/2021 - 16:25

Conspiracy theories have long been part of American life, but they feel more urgent than ever. Innocuous notions like whether the moon... →

06/09/2021 - 12:47

When John Randolph wrote his first book, about the lives of the Bakunin family in 19th-Century Russia, he had mountains of source... →

31/08/2021 - 19:22

In his new book, “Flashes of Creation,” Paul Halpern chronicles the rise of Gamow and Hoyle into leaders of mostly opposing views of... →

23/08/2021 - 13:59

Frankel (not to be confused with Berkeley author and spiritual teacher Estelle Frankel) teaches at Mission College in Santa Clara and... →

17/08/2021 - 13:20

In his lab at Linköping University in Sweden, Per Jensen, a professor of ethology, is trying to recreate this domestication process in... →

09/08/2021 - 12:45

There are a few estimates out there, all of them quite high. According to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, there are "35... →

29/07/2021 - 14:28

Mission accomplished, the two taikonauts – China’s astronauts – clambered back into their home for the next three months: Beijing’s new... →

20/07/2021 - 13:03

Here, archaeologists might refer to ‘diffusion’ among the groups, a vague 19th-century term suggesting that the movement of cultural... →

11/07/2021 - 13:56

I was returning to London, where the leader of the Labour party was protesting that he was the victim of prejudice, had always... →

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