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2024 olympics
Judging Breaking At the Olympics Is an Art, Not a Science
Back in 2017, when I was watching the breaking battles at the Silverback Open in the suburbs of Philadelphia, a…
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left in space
NASA Still Hasn't Decided How to Get the Boeing Starliner Astronauts Home
During a news conference on Wednesday, NASA officials for the first time publicly discussed divisions within the agency about whether…
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Beyond Hope?
Beyond Meat Is Stalling in the US. Europe Could Be Another Story
The plant-based meat industry is in a bad place. Sales in the US fell last year as the pandemic-era enthusiasm…
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science
She’s the New Face of Climate Activism—and She’s Carrying a Pickax
By the time I arrive in Lezay my clothes are damp with sweat, my head foggy. I find hundreds of…
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2024 olympics
Public Health Experts Want Coca-Cola and the Olympics to Break Up
Since then, every Summer and Winter Olympics has adopted a strict smoke-free policy and, since 2010, a complete tobacco-free policy.…
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france
How Pirates Affected The United States’ Choice To Not Adopt The Metric System
It’s a question for the ages, right? Why did the United States never adopt the metric system so we could…
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science
Mountain Bikers Are Rewilding Land by Paying the Government to Do It
The dark spaces beneath the conifers make it feel as if the mountain bikers are emerging from nowhere. Racing down…
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Q+A
Jane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the World
While immersed in fieldwork earlier in life, Goodall recognized that lifting people out of poverty was integral to preserving biodiversity…
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Exceptions to the Rule
‘Gem’ of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometimes mathematicians try to tackle a problem head on, and…
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left in space
NASA Is ‘Evaluating All Options’ to Get the Boeing Starliner Crew Home
It has now been eight weeks since Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched into orbit on an Atlas V rocket, bound for…
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