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How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth

April 27, 2024

How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth The potentially hazardous asteroid is on its way for an uncomfortably close flyby of Earth in 2029. This is radar image of a near-Earth asteroid similar to Apophis. We actually know very little about what Apophis looks like, but its pending flyby in 2029 […]

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Staggering Quantities of Valuable Metals Are Winding Up in the Garbage Bin

April 23, 2024

Staggering Quantities of Valuable Metals Are Winding Up in the Garbage Bin Recycling more of the copper, aluminum, and other minerals in our old electronics could reduce the need for mining. Photo: vladdon (Shutterstock) To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to […]

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More Than 400,000 Texans Without Power Amid Dangerous Winter Storm

February 3, 2023

More Than 400,000 Texans Without Power Amid Dangerous Winter Storm The freezing conditions will end for Texas soon, but they’re set to move into the Northeast this weekend. A woman waits for paramedics in the back of a Lyft Ride vehicle on February 01, 2023 in Austin, Texas. A winter storm is sweeping across portions […]

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Australia Ties Record for Hottest Southern Hemisphere Day

January 14, 2022

Australia Ties Record for Hottest Southern Hemisphere Day It topped 123 degrees Fahrenheit in Western Australia, tying the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in the southern hemisphere A map showing the misery index in Australia on Thursday. Gif: Earth Wind Map It is really, really, really hot in Australia right now. On Thursday, Onslow, a coastal […]

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The Scientists Are Terrified

November 2, 2021

The Scientists Are Terrified A survey of the world’s top climate researchers shows a stark finding: Most expect catastrophic levels of heating and damage soon—very soon. Photo: Fadel Senna/AFP (Getty Images) A new Nature survey shows a majority of the world’s leading climate scientists expect “catastrophic” impacts in their lifetimes driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions. Brilliant […]

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Hurricane Ida Shuts Down More Than 90% of Oil and Gas Production in the Gulf of Mexico

September 1, 2021

Hurricane Ida Shuts Down More Than 90% of Oil and Gas Production in the Gulf of Mexico Experts say the oil refineries that have been shut down account for 9% of the country’s total. A gas pump with gas selling for $1.04 a gallon is shown on May 07, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland.  Photo: Rob Carr (Getty […]

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The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism

November 11, 2017

The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism Gizmodo released an article entitled “US Homeland Security Wants Facial Recognition to Identify People in Moving Cars,” on 11/2/17 by Matt Novak. The Surveillance State has slowed down its rate of growth since the President took office, however, it has not halted that growth. Instead, it lies festering […]

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From the Very Creation of the Internet, U.S. Spy Agencies Fought to Block Encryption

May 25, 2015

From the Very Creation of the Internet, U.S. Spy Agencies Fought to Block Encryption American spy agencies have intentionally weakened digital security for many decades. This breaks the functionality of our computers and of the Internet. It reduces functionality and reduces security by – for example – creating backdoors that malicious hackers can get through. The spy agencies […]

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