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Climate change is an issue that stretches across borders, touching every facet of our lives. Addressing it likewise requires shifts in almost every industry and institution. On Sept. 21, The New York Times will bring together newsmakers, including innovators, activists, scientists and policymakers, for an all-day event examining the actions needed to confront climate change….
In a time when AI is being used in everything from sneakers to music and movies, it’s sort of interesting, perhaps even surprising, to see it tackle some of the less-glamorous tasks, such as cleaning toilets. From New York’s backstreets comes Somatic’s autonomous toilet-cleaning robot, revealing that, yes, robots, too, can roll up their metaphorical…
United Nations — “Earth just had its hottest three months on record,” the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday. “The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting,” warned U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a statement coinciding with the release of the latest data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service…
A few miles away, Robert Dicke, a physicist at Princeton, and his students had begun looking into the conditions under which the universe could have begun, if indeed it had a beginning. They concluded that any such Big Bang must have been hot enough to sustain thermonuclear reactions, at millions of degrees, in order to…
Eight years after world leaders approved a landmark agreement in Paris to fight climate change, countries have made only limited progress in staving off the most dangerous effects of global warming, according to the first official report card on the global climate treaty. Many of the worst-case climate change scenarios that were much feared in…
The News The grocery chain Kroger said on Friday that it had agreed to pay about $1.2 billion to states, local governments and Native American tribes to settle claims that its retail pharmacies played a role in fueling the opioid crisis. Kroger, which was accused of improperly monitoring prescriptions of highly addictive painkillers filled in…
The Amazon Kindle is one of the most popular e-reader devices, and for good reason. It’s both practical and packed with great features. Kindles also offer tons of apps, book titles, magazines and more, all at your fingertips. It’s a bookworm’s dream come true. And because it’s so lightweight and portable, you can easily carry…
A golden egg, or an alien, on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean? American scientists have discovered a mysterious dome-shaped specimen deep on the Alaskan seafloor, but nobody knows for sure what it is. Ocean researchers using a remotely operated survey vehicle were amazed last week when they spotted the strange item on a…
On Thursday morning in Japan, a bus-size telescope with X-Ray vision soared into space. It wasn’t alone. Along for the ride was a robotic moon lander about the size of a small food truck. The two missions — XRISM and SLIM — would soon part ways, one headed off to spy on some of the…
On Thursday evening, the doors abruptly closed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Officials had learned that climate protesters were planning a visit during the hours when the cultural institution offers free admission. The activist group Extinction Rebellion had posted on social media earlier in the day, saying this would be its second…
