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Why only a few wildfires become extreme

Hot and dry conditions have become synonymous with the risk of extreme wildfires. But a new paper argues that such conditions are not, by themselves, sufficient for blazes, and most warm years do not result in the burning of exceptionally large areas.

Trump’s Iran deal: Realpolitik triumphs — for now

Washington has a habit of dressing up its foreign policy in the language of moral purpose. Presidents invoke democracy, human rights, and the rules-based international order as if they were divine mandates rather than rhetorical conveniences. So there is something almost

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City of Champions

If the Knicks can do it, any of us can. Plus, must-see shows around NYC this summer: Orientalism, Pope.L, Sonia Boyce, and more.

Future Martian colonists will need a new relativistic clock

We think of atomic clocks as the definitive timekeepers. They are famous for being accurate down to the picosecond. Unfortunately, they are still subject to general relativity, so if you put them on a different planet, they will track time slightly faster or slower than on

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The prompt that made ChatGPT generate disturbing images. What does this tell us about AI?

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