Origins of the Euphrates River Possibly Discovered
Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Around 6,000 years ago, the world's earliest known civilization arose in
1985 年 6 月，苏联做了一件听起来仍然不可能的事情：让两个气球飞过另一个星球的云层。他们被释放到一层硫酸云中，风速超过每小时 150 英里，他们在近两天的时间里乘着风绕金星绕了三分之一的路程。它们仍然是人类在另一个世界的大气层中飞行过的唯一飞机，直到 2021 年一架直升机在火星上起飞之前，它们是无与伦比的。最令人惊讶的是：苏联的这一胜利是在冷战最激烈的时期由法国人设计的，并由美国天线跟踪。 1985 年 6 月，苏联驾驶两个气球穿过金星的硫酸云，以 150 英里/小时的风速绕地球三分之一，这是在另一个世界飞行的唯一飞机直到 36 年后，一架直升机在火星上升空，“苏联”的胜利才由法国秘密
Artificial Intelligence Is Still Quite 'Dumb'
Ross Pomeroy、RealClearScience Billionare 风险投资家和人工智能 (AI) 传播者 Marc Andreessen 最近
Scientific Publishers Are Fleecing Taxpayers
Robert M. Kaplan，RealClearScience 美国人每年投资数百美元
A Hot Jupiter’s Cloudy Mornings and Clear Evenings Provide Clues to Its Chemistry
An improved weather forecast for an exoplanet 700 light-years away has revealed new details about its true chemical composition, clarifying more than a decade of blurry data.
Under Mamdani, New York will be the first to open a free child care center for city workers
本文由《19世纪报》出版并经许可转载。 Tucked in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s sprawling universal childcare plan is a little-talked-about milestone: In September, the city will open what appears to be the first free daycare for municipal workers in the country. The center, called The Little Apple, is a pilot p
NASA X-ray spacecraft discovers supernova wreckage at the heart of the Milky Way
NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft has detected the supernova wreckage of a dead star that erupted 1,700 years ago and ejected debris at 2 million miles per hour.
Why Politicians Lie—and How Easy Money Keeps the Boom Alive
马克·桑顿 (Mark Thornton) 评论约翰·米尔斯海默 (John Mearsheimer) 的《政客为何撒谎？》并将国外的政治欺骗与美联储驱动的扭曲联系起来，这些扭曲现在正在扭曲市场、货币和工人阶级。
Correcting a Huge Funding Imbalance at NIH
Ross Pomeroy，RealClearScience 美国国立卫生研究院的使命是“寻求有关自然的基础知识......
