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India Weighs An Historic Expansion of Marriage Rights
This month, India’s Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether to legalize same-sex marriage.
Bloomberg reporters Muneeza Naqvi and Kai Schultz jo…
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Why Employers Will Soon Be Fighting Each Other To Hire You
The future of US competitiveness is taking shape in a field in Licking County, Ohio. It’s the site of a new Intel semiconductor plant, part of the Bi…
3 years, 2 months ago
Two Space Missions Shake Up Our View Of The Past–And Future
Two significant advances in science and technology are helping us examine our own planet, as well as galaxies near and far. The first is the James We…
3 years, 2 months ago
Cities Test A New Way To Reduce Police Violence
Traffic stops are the most common way people come into contact with the police. After the January death of Tyre Nichols, who was beaten following a p…
3 years, 2 months ago
Is the Pentagon Losing Its Edge?
In his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned about the dangers of the business of war–what he called the “military indus…
3 years, 2 months ago
The World’s Food Security is In The Hands of China and Russia
One unexpected consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: It highlighted how just a handful of countries–notably Russia and China–supply much of th…
3 years, 2 months ago
A ‘90s Rapper. A Fugitive. And the FBI
Pras Michel, the famed rapper and founding member of The Fugees, goes on federal trial later this month. The US government has charged him with numer…
3 years, 2 months ago
A Brain Implant To Use An iPhone With Your Thoughts
Startups pioneering invasive and noninvasive devices that interact with the brain seek to alleviate everything from ALS symptoms to epilepsy to treat…
3 years, 2 months ago
Countries Cautiously Weigh A Return to Nuclear Power
Twelve years after the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, Japan is now considering restarting its shuttered nuclear reactors to com…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Not So Shiny Aluminum in Ford’s New Electric Truck
It takes hundreds of pounds of aluminum to build Ford’s “Truck of the Future,” the electric F-150. A lot of that aluminum comes from a long, complica…
3 years, 2 months ago