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Nuclear strategy, proliferation risks, deterrence policy, missile programs, arms control, and the geopolitical tensions shaping the nuclear age.
How did a single quaking aspen colony in the mountain west spread across roughly 106 acres, weigh about 6,000 tonnes and share one root system, making it possibly the heaviest living organism on Earth?
What happened when a physician in 1854 mapped 578 cholera deaths onto a London street grid and traced the entire outbreak to a single wooden pump handle?
In 1859, a solar storm now called the Carrington Event induced currents so strong in telegraph lines that operators disconnected their batteries and kept sending messages powered by the aurora alone, with sparks jumping from the keys to their fingers
How did a desert nation with almost no freshwater rivers grow its agricultural output more than tenfold while cutting the water used to produce each crop, mostly by rethinking a black plastic tube?
The Soviet Venera 13 probe survived 127 minutes on the surface of Venus in 1982, transmitting colour photographs of orange rock through an atmosphere hot enough to melt lead before the pressure crushed its electronics into silence
What happened when engineers terraced a 640,000 square kilometre plateau whose yellow silt had been choking the world's muddiest river for millennia, and the sediment load fell by nearly 90 percent within two decades?
At around 30 years old, the human spinal discs begin losing water and compressing under gravity, shortening most people by about 1 centimetre per decade. On the International Space Station, astronauts float free of that load and grow up to 5 centimetres taller within weeks
Zelensky to press US on long-range missile strikes inside Russia
Zelensky says does not believe Putin will use nuclear arms
YouTube shuts down North Korea propaganda account
