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Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Is Reported Dead

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Rose Lesniak, the magnetic feminist poet who heckled John Ashbery and trained dogs, is dead. She was 70

NASA scraps 2027 Artemis III moon landing in favor of 2028 mission

John Brockman was more than a literary agent — he was a networker and salon impresario. Was he also Jeffrey Epstein's conduit to the academy?"

"The Docket that Shall Not Be Named"

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On Usable Rage

Global Health Financing Needs a Reset

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Scientists spot never-before-seen shock wave around dead star

Multilateralism Is Not Dead Yet

The riddle of experience vs. memory

The Most Beautiful Science of the Year

Fresh starts: how to thrive when you leave academia

The Year of the Starter Home

Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us

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