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In think tank’s Taiwan war game, US beats China at high cost

WASHINGTON – In a pessimistic, but realistic, 2026 war game scenario, a combined sabotage and information operation campaign helped Chinese military […]

This Solar Tower Can Transform Water, Sunlight, and Carbon Dioxide Into Jet Fuel

Aldo Steinfeld, a professor at ETH Zürich’s Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, says his system for converting ambient air […]

Visualized: Which Countries are Dominating Space?

▼ Use This Visualization Believe it or not, there is a lot of stuff in space. In fact, our atmosphere […]

No path out of economic oblivion for Russia, Yale University scientists believe

August 11, 2022·19 min read In the study, titled “Business Retreats and Sanctions Are Crippling the Russian Economy” the experts said that […]

Yale researchers have unearthed a new clue that may explain who has long COVID—and how to treat the chronic condition

Public health officials are scrambling to understand long COVID, the condition in which patients report symptoms like fatigue, muscle weakness, […]

Wastewater is trying to tell us something about the future of COVID, polio, monkeypox, and the next epidemic to come

“The danger of polio is present in New York today.” The statement seems ripped from the headlines during the 1916 New York polio […]

A Nuclear War Could Starve Billions, But One Country May Be Safer Than The Rest

It starts with a single mushroom-shaped cloud the world hoped to never see again. Retaliation prompts tit-for-tat attacks, each intended […]

China just ran into something that could be even more devastating for its supply chains than COVID-19 lockdowns: A record heat wave

OVID-19 lockdowns in China threw a wrench into global supply chains earlier this year, causing shipping and production delays worldwide, and hindering […]

‘We realized that there’s no way we can return’: Russia’s best and brightest are leaving the country in record numbers. 6 young Russians explain why they left

Three months ago, Sonya, a 25-year-old who works at a major mobile gaming company and moonlights as a tutor, made […]

Heat waves: The worst is yet to come

Mariano Zafra Molina  For more than 30 years, scientists have been warning of the increased impact of heat waves due […]