Why an astronomer is really excited about today's telescope launch: "We built Pandora to shatter a barrier – to understand and remove a source of noise in the data – that limits our ability to study small exoplanets in detail and search for life on them."
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NASA’s Pandora telescope will study stars in detail to learn about the exoplanets orbiting them
The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into stars and planets outside ...
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Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America’s climate protections
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Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty in latest move to dismantle America’s climate protections
At the same time, Americans have been facing worsening storms, wildfires and deadly heat waves.
Cruelty has been normalized in capitalism. But leaders can still center care and fairness and build profitable, resilient companies
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Taming the moral menace at capitalism’s core
Centuries of management practice were built on cruelty and exploitation. But history also offers a countercurrent – leaders who chose care, fairn...
“National interest” is ambiguous. Although it is often presented as an expression of sheer force, its effectiveness ultimately rests on something softer – the manner in which a government projects credibility to the world, explains the author of a biography of George Washington.
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George Washington’s foreign policy was built on respect for other nations and patient consideration of future burdens
For the nation’s first president, friendliness was strategy, not concession: the republic would treat other nations with civility in order to rem...