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On Monday, April 6, 2026, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission made history at 12:56 p.m. CDT. Traveling 248,655 miles from Earth, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, surpassed the record for the farthest distance any humans have ever traveled from Earth –...

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In February of this year, Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, when U.S. Central Command conducted strikes against Iranian military infrastructure. These strikes targeted IRGC command centers, air defenses, and missile sites, coinciding with Israel’s Operation Roaring Lion to mark a historic level of joint military cooperation. However, on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli attacks...

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Climate change often reaches the public through graphs, targets, and diplomatic language. Then a single image erases that distance. Climate Central’s sea level reconstructions work with that exact force. They place familiar coastlines inside a harsher future. Havana appears to be overtaken by Caribbean water. Washington, London, Seville, Hong Kong, Dubai, Rio de Janeiro, Cape...

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Rivers across the Pacific Northwest are missing something critical to how they function, and it’s not water. It’s wood. Fallen trees, root wads, whole logjams. A healthy river in this part of the country was never supposed to be a neat, fast-flowing channel. It was a tangle of downed timber, braided side channels, and seasonal...

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As predictions for 2026 emerge, none of them are particularly reassuring. Without any clairvoyant assistance, 2026 has already seen the world plummet into turmoil. While some famous psychics, such as Baba Vanga and Nostradamus, predicted the year 2026 centuries ago, it is difficult to say whether predictions about our current world are based on supernatural...

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Sabrina González Pasterski is a remarkable figure in theoretical physics, often celebrated as the ‘next Albert Einstein.’ From a very young age, she reached impressive milestones in her career. Even before she was old enough to get her driver’s license, Pasterski had already designed and built a single-engine aircraft, a true testament to her early...