Indo-European languages spoken by nearly half of the world today originated from an ancient…
Category: 9. Sci-Tech
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NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’
A number of federal employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US federal agency that monitors and models the oceans and atmosphere for the purpose of predicting changes in climate and weather, have received…
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Adorable endangered Malayan tapir calf born at Washington zoo
An endangered and rare Malayan tapir calf was born this weekend at Washington’s Point…
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This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
An engineer named Nikhil Rajpal is representing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to multiple sources.
Government records reviewed…
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‘Dengue Boy’ Is the Weird, Fleshy Novel You Need Right Now
Evolution, ethnography, epidemics—this is the soup from which Dengue Boy, a brilliantly strange new novel by the Argentine author Michel Nieva, emerges. The eponymous Dengue Boy is a mosquito–human hybrid who might be an experiment, a genetic…
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Antarctic skull sheds light on ancient birds 69 million years ago
A 69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica belonged to what scientists say is the oldest…
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69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica is oldest ‘modern’ bird
A prehistoric bird, akin to modern-day loons and grebes, has been identified as the oldest…
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‘Humanity’s great aunt’ arrives: 3.18-million-year-old skeleton debuts i
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced on Tuesday that the Czech National Museum in Prague will host the 3.2 million-year-old fossil of Australopithecus afarensis, known as Lucy, from August 25 to October 23, 2025. This event marks the…
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New species of 150 million-year-old ray discovered in Bavaria
A 150-million-year-old fossil of a cartilaginous fish named Jochen, unearthed in the Altmühltal region of Bavaria, Germany, was recently described by a team led by paleontologist Julia Türtscher from the University of Vienna in the…
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Early Detection Tools Help but They Can’t Stop Every Wildfire
A little after 6:25 am on November 8, 2018, a 911 dispatcher received the first report of a fire near the Poe Dam in northern California. Nineteen minutes later firefighters caught sight of what would become known as the Camp Fire. Drought had…
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