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  • Chinese boy in Monterey ParkSuccess

    How wealthy Chinese moving to America have left Chinatowns behind for a whole new neighborhood—meet the ‘ethnoburb’

    By Wei Li, Yining Tan, and others
  • J. Robert OppenheimerPolitics

    The author of ‘Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect’ explains why American culture fixates more on him than the horror of Hiroshima

    By Charles Thorpe and The Conversation
  • boardroomTech

    Neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns information explains why A.I. would be the ‘perfect psychopath’ in an executive role

    By Guillaume Thierry and The Conversation
  • Ditlev Blicher

    Maersk, Evergreen and the world’s largest shipping companies are changing as the climate does. Here’s how they’re turning the ocean liner around

    By Don Maier and The Conversation
  • Children on electronic devicesHealth

    Why governments are the only solution to the explosion of child obesity as 124 million struggle with processed foods and sedentary modern life

    By Kathleen Trejo Tello and The Conversation
  • UNITED STATES – JULY 26: From left, Ryan Graves, executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Office representative on the Defense Department’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, and retired Navy Commander David Fravor, testify during the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency,” in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Politics

    An astronomer who’s part of a group planning to talk to aliens ‘should the need ever arise’ breaks down the bombshell UFO testimony in Congress

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  • Extreme heatEnvironment

    It’s not just climate change: Here’s how El Niño and a huge underwater volcanic eruption led to extreme heat in 2023, from an expert who’s mapped various sections of the Earth

    By Michael Wysession and The Conversation
  • HorseHealth

    Horse obesity can help us understand it in humans too, veterinary science researcher says

    By Jane Manfredi and The Conversation
  • Greenland ice sheetEnvironment

    The scientists who figured out exactly when Greenland was ice-free reveal what it shows about our warming planet

    By Paul Bierman, Tammy Rittenour, and others
  • Alexa userTech

    You can see the big problem with A.I. when you use Alexa, say concerned Harvard professors. Just ask if Amazon is a monopoly

    By Bruce Schneier, Nathan Sanders, and others
  • Albert Einstein, J. Robert OppenheimerPolitics

    How Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb secrets were really stolen by Soviet Russia, as revealed by a Harvard Kennedy School professor

    By Calder Walton and The Conversation
  • Taylor SwiftPolitics

    From Pennsylvania’s ‘Swiftsburgh’ to New Jersey’s ‘Taylor Swift Ham, Egg and Cheese,’ politicians are capitalizing on the Eras tour

    By Matt Harris and The Conversation
  • Man in gliderTech

    ChatGPT is not a search engine. Here’s why you should think of it as a ‘glider’ to get better results, says engineer with Harvard PhD in neuroscience

    By James Intriligator and The Conversation
  • Vladimir PutinFinance

    The Russia-Africa summit is coming, but Putin barely invests in the continent while the mercenary Wagner Group rages across the countryside

    By Joseph Siegle and The Conversation
  • UPS strikeSuccess

    340,000 UPS drivers are about to strike over a pay scale that gives part-timers what the Teamsters call ‘poverty wages’—here’s a closer look at the numbers

    By Jason Miller and The Conversation