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At the 25th anniversary session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed an alternative model to Western alliances. Mr. Xi urged developing nations and the Global South to leverage “SCO wisdom” to argue for a more equitable and orderly multipolar world and reform of global governanceContinue Reading

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Russia, China, and Iran are all sharing the same playbook for corrupting Western elections. The U.S. is on track to be the next target this November. A troveof Russian documents leaked in May outlines Moscow’s plans to use AI to warp foreign decision making and sway elections. The Kremlin’s “ProjectsContinue Reading

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Viktor Hurniak was a Ukrainian photojournalist who worked for UNIAN, a major Ukrainian news outlet, and for Reuters, and co-founded the LUFA photo agency, according to Ukrainska Pravda. He joined the fight in the Russo-Ukrainian war in September 2014. Russia killed him on 19 October that year near the villageContinue Reading

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Cosmic Origins … Cosmic Origins Community AI/ML STIG Lecture Series, 21… About Community Executive Committee Science Groups Conferences Cosmic Pathfinders Early Career Workshop Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources   AI/ML STIG Lecture Series Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Science and Technology Interest Group AI/ML STIG about AI/ML STIGContinue Reading

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Canadian officials aren’t being coy about it: The retaliatory tariffs imposed Tuesday against the United States were deliberately chosen to hurt vulnerable Republicans before the midterm elections. “We are picking products that will target states in the U.S.,” Mélanie Joly, Canada’s industry minister, said late last month while announcing theContinue Reading

This ‘impossible’ black hole merger may be explained by a warp in spacetime

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An illustration of merging supermassive black holes set space rippling with gravitational waves. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created by Canva)) A “forbidden” merger between two massive black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. That’s according to new research that suggests the black holes involved were smaller than expected. On Nov.Continue Reading

International Space Station astronaut gives out of this world tribute to honor Star Trek’s 60th anniversary

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(Image credit: ESA/NASA/Sophie Adenot) Celebrations of Star Trek’s 60th anniversary made it all the way to the final frontier. Among the science and supplies delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) for European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot’s mission on orbit was a small piece of memorabilia to honor one of the most influentialContinue Reading