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You're Racing Toward a Wall. Should You Brake Hard—or Swerve?

Say you’re driving and come upon an obstacle. Is it best to slam on the brakes, turn, or start weaving? Here’s how to crunch the numbers.

Jeffrey Epstein and the Power of Networks

The billionaire child rapist bought his way into an elite crowd of intellectuals that defined the last three decades of science, tech,...

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How America's Spooks Seek to Spy on Distant Satellites

The intelligence community has plans for a telescope network that can see not just a blob in orbit but details such as a satellite’s...

Capitalism Burns the Amazon, Lawsuits Burn YouTube, and...

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Behold the Firenado's Twisting, Infernal Column of Flames

Call them fire tornadoes or fire whirls, these spinning conflagrations can tear roofs off houses and spread flames unpredictably....

Big Ag Is Sabotaging Progress on Climate Change

Opinion: Grim as the UN’s latest climate report is, it doesn’t confront the dangerous, government-hijacking power of agribusiness.

Flint, Newark, and the Persistent Crisis of Lead in Water

The contaminated water in Flint and Newark is not unusual, and some experts think they know where the next "next Flint" will be.

Tracking Global Warming Means Finding The Flaw In Old Data...

Tracking Global Warming Means Finding The Flaw In Old Data  NPRScientists need to track the history of sea temperatures precisely...

New Report: Towards a global standard for water reuse

Does the world need a standard regulatory framework around water reuse, and what might this look like?

Aquatech prepares membrane-thermal ZLD for Columbia gold...

The new hybrid membrane-thermal system is to be installed in April and commissioning is expected to be completed by Q4 2019.