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'This is a test run for 2026... Trump could try to seize voting machines or otherwise interfere with state ballot tabulation processes in swing districts around the country.'

At the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board moved the Doomsday Clock forward from 89 seconds to 85 seconds to midnight, citing a failure in global leadership.

ALT: a poster that says measles is very contagious on it

Threats to funding and cuts to diversity efforts are putting pressure on the pipeline of new scientists

Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Iceland joked about making Iceland a U.S. state as Washington prepares for high-level talks on Greenland.

Life truly is radiant, according to an experiment conducted by researchers from the University of Calgary and the National Research Council of Canada.

The Arctic island’s 34-year-old prime minister is at the centre of one of the world’s most meaningful geopolitical struggles

and writing those vows

In early 2025, I was overly optimistic he might get a thing or two right for public health

Jackson Hole Airport, located inside Grand Teton National Park, became DarkSky certified for its work to protect wildlife and night views.

PEN America statement on Tom Stoppard death: “From his early plays like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead that shocked audiences, to his most recent and most autobiographical play Leopoldstadt— in...

Filter-feeding flying reptile was likely devoured by a dinosaur during the early Cretaceous

It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.

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Probably—and safety organisations are beginning to take note

A country’s tourism may be thought of as a universal good, but writer Bani Amor shows how tourism can negatively affect native populations.

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