Three Win Nobel Prize In Economics for Work in Reducing Poverty
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Scientists Aim to Make 3D Map of World Before Climate Change Ruins It
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Cybersecurity Whiz Says a Combination of Threats Endanger 2020 Vote
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New Material Captures CO2 and Converts It Into Useful Chemicals
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Gun Deaths Surge — Except for in Two States With Restrictive Gun Laws
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Ghost Forests Are Visceral Examples of the Advance of Climate Change
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Researchers Are Freezing a Ship Into Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change
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How Companies Are Reshaping the Gun Control Debate
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Southern States Hit by ‘Flash Droughts,’ Record-Breaking Heat
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US, Allies Urge Facebook Not to Encrypt Messages as They Fight Child Abuse, Terrorism
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Nevada’s Online Privacy Law Takes Effect, Offers More Control of Info
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Restoring Forests for the Sake of Climate, Habitats
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Climate Change Is Making Us Sick
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US Income Inequality Worsens, Widening to a New Gap
Reading Time: 2 minutes Some Voting Machines Still Have Decade-Old Vulnerabilities ; Why Japan’s Trains Work So Well ; and More Picks 9/30
How Federal Tax Incentives Could Yield Big Carbon Emissions Cuts
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Microsoft Publicly Posts Code for Election Security Software
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New Zealand PM to UN: Climate Crisis, Terrorism Have No Borders
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Gun Buyback Talk: How Do You Round Up So Many Weapons?
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Climate Change Impacts ‘Accelerating’ As Leaders Gather at UN: Report
Reading Time: 1 minute How Boeing’s Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster ; The End of Amtrak’s Dining Car ; and More Picks 9/23
9 Practical Ways to Tackle Climate Change, Starting in Your Kitchen
Reading Time: 2 minutes Colt Suspends AR-15 Production for Civilians ; Many People Want to Set Aside Half of Earth as Nature ; and More Picks 9/20