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‘Andor’ Is Not the Resistance You’re Looking For

admin24 April 2025

“Star Wars” has always been political. When the main thrust of the narrative is about rebels rising up against empire, that’s simply hard to avoid. “Andor,” the Disney+ streaming series that premiered in 2022, wears its politics openly: The show is ...

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Pope Francis’ Gay Muddle

admin24 April 2025

“Who am I to judge?” Pope Francis uttered those words in July 2013, just four and a half months into his papacy, when he was asked about gay priests, and the remark was greeted by some observers as a revelation and revolution. At long last, the Roman ...

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Trump’s Tariffs Will Pay Off, for China

admin24 April 2025

No part of the world will be hit harder by President Trump’s barrage of “reciprocal” tariffs than the Asia-Pacific region. Despite his 90-day pause in imposing them, some of Mr. Trump’s steepest tariff rates still hang over developing economies such ...

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National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards

admin24 April 2025

The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

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Hidden Above a Trap Door, 17th-Century Frescoes Come to Light

admin24 April 2025

Imagine mounting a scaffold in the atrium of a historic Roman estate. You spy a small trap door in the vaulted ceiling; on inspection the hatch opens into a cavity between the new ceiling and an older one. In the older ceiling is a second trap door ...

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It’s Springtime on Polaris-9b, and the Exoflowers Are Blooming

admin24 April 2025

Imagine setting out for a springtime stroll. Not here on Earth but on some distant planet — call it Novathis-458b — orbiting a distant star. Even light-years from home, you recognize some familiar pleasures: The sun (albeit a different sun) is ...

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Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

admin24 April 2025

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

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How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide.

admin24 April 2025

It may not have been the tax-evasion trial of the century — the second century, that is — but it was of such gravity that the defendants faced charges of forgery, fiscal fraud and the sham sale of slaves. Tax dodging is as old as taxation itself, but ...

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Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000

admin24 April 2025

Growing case numbers suggest that national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019.

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When They Don’t Recognize You Anymore

admin24 April 2025

People with dementia often forget even close family members as the disease advances. “It can throw people into an existential crisis,” one expert said.

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