The world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina ...

The surprising January heat record coincides with a new study by a climate science heavyweight, former top NASA scientist ...

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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist at Harvard University, about her efforts to preserve federal health data that recently disappeared from government websites.

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An excerpt from the story ‘File No. 786 [The Night Journey]’ by Hameedha Khan, from ‘The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF’.

Vogel was born in Dębica in Galicia, today southern Poland. His family emigrated to London, UK, in 1906, settling in ...

A federal lawsuit filed in Wisconsin accuses a renowned author of sexually abusing a New Zealand woman. Scarlett Pavlovich accuses Neil Gaiman, who the filing says lives in Menomonie, of having “a ...

New assessment warns area the size of the USA will become too hot during extreme heat events for even healthy young humans to maintain a safe body temperature if we hit 2 degrees Celsuis above ...

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Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon, or if they have been sitting there for millions ...

Beware the rise of ‘Marxist nationalism’. As Australian ex-PM Kevin Rudd explains in his new study, On Xi Jinping, China has imperial dreams ...