have-we-found-alien-life?-hundreds-of-scientists-weigh-in

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Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced. Only 6.6% of surveyed experts thought possible biological molecules on K2-18b probably represented extraterrestrial life, while 15.1% said the same about intriguing mineral patterns in a Martian rock., Read MoreContinue Reading

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4995-5001: 5,000 (Martian) Days on Mars

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Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 The span of sols spanned by this blog post is noteworthy in several ways. First, Curiosity became a world-class (for Mars at least) mountaineer by passing the 1 kilometer mark of elevation from its landing site on the floorContinue Reading

Superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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HQ Web Team Sep 08, 2026 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures a photogenic nebula, N44, in the Large Magellanic Cloud in this Sept. 3, 2026, image. N44 is dominated by two features: a vast central void and a shell of dense, dusty gas. The central void is a ‘superbubble’ spanning roughly 210 by 140 light-yearsContinue Reading

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Canada is one of our biggest trading partners. Traitor 47 is one of our biggest economic illiterates. Now the rest of us are caught in the crossfire of an idiotic trade war that’s going to hurt regular people more than they’ll benefit.Continue Reading

codepink-statement:-marking-25-years-of-the-global-war-of-terror

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Twenty-five years ago, in the ashes of the September 11th attacks, the United States launched what it called the “Global War on Terror.” While the country was afraid and vulnerable, neoconservatives in the Bush administration, like then-Vice President Dick Cheney, saw an opening for expanding empire and U.S. hegemony byContinue Reading

“let’s-just-round-them-up”:-the-rise-of-islamophobia-in-the-post-9/11-domestic-war-on-terror

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The attacks on September 11, 2001, unleashed a wave of Islamophobia in the United States that resulted in widespread harassment and persecution of Muslim Americans. In addition to vigilante attacks targeting Muslims or those perceived to be Muslim, there was also state repression including police roundups, community surveillance, prosecutions onContinue Reading

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Rare archive footage showing the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York’s World Trade Center, the moment that reshaped global security and U.S. foreign policy for decades to come. This is ‘Reuters Archive’ — our series sharing rare Reuters footage from the moments that shaped the world. Reuters Archive canContinue Reading