america’s-‘long-history-of-losing-innocence’-#shorts

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While America has a “long history” of losing its innocence, the Sept. 11 attacks were an “authentic tragedy” that you don’t get past, historian David Blight says. “You don’t get beyond 9/11,” he told PBS News’ Judy Woodruff. “You have to sit with it. It’s authentic tragedy. Where do youContinue Reading

twenty-five-years-later,-remembering-9/11

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In “Aftermath,” a 1919 retrospective poem on his war, Siegfried Sassoon asked: “Have you forgotten yet?” “Look up,” he appealed, “and swear by the green of the spring that you’ll never forget.”[1] With the approach of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, I have been reflecting on that terrible day andContinue Reading

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Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have been celebrating after seizing control of the Red Sea coast in a rapid offensive., NewsFeed Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have been celebrating after seizing control of the Red Sea coast in a rapid offensive against the internationally-recognised government. In response, gov’t forces have launched strikes on HouthiContinue Reading

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Across the US, assisted dying – which some critics prefer to call assisted suicide – is legal in 30 out of 50 states, as well as in Washington DC. Oregon was one of the first places in the world to offer help to die for some patients, in 1997, andContinue Reading

Help Refine Data from Space Telescopes with Artifact InSPECtor

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How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are seeing is real? A new NASA project, Artifact InSPECtor, invites you to find out – and by doing so, to help missions like Euclid and NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope answer fundamentalContinue Reading

Microscopic fragments of ancient alien tech may litter the moon — and scientists have a plan to find them

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A new study suggests the moon’s surface may be covered in microscopic fragments of ancient alien tech. Researchers propose analyzing lunar regolith to hunt for these extraterrestrial relics. (This photo shows NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt collecting samples from the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.) (Image credit: NASA/MSFC History Office) Tiny fragments ofContinue Reading