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Four-day school weeks are increasingly being offered as a way to recruit teachers, but the research is mixed on the advantages and disadvantages of the schedule. Now some states are reconsidering it.

People are launching to space in ever-greater numbers, with few backups in case of trouble. A 'Space Rescue Service' might fill in the gap, a new report argues.

Large language models gave advice on how to conceal the true purpose of the purchase of anthrax, smallpox and plague bacteria

When fired, depleted uranium becomes ‘essentially an exotic metal dart fired at extraordinarily high speed’

When fired, depleted uranium becomes ‘essentially an exotic metal dart fired at extraordinarily high speed’

When fired, depleted uranium becomes ‘essentially an exotic metal dart fired at extraordinarily high speed’

The US says it will start delivering the controversial weapons to Ukraine soon; Russia denounced the decision as ‘an indicator of inhumanity’

The U.S. has announced it is sending depleted uranium anti-tank rounds to Ukraine, following Britain’s lead in sending the controversial munitions to help Kyiv push through Russian lines in its grueling counteroffensive

Everyone benefits when the folks who help other folks relax get their break.

The “most important whistleblower of our times”, Daniel Ellsberg was the military analyst who smuggled hundreds of pages of top secret material about US actions in Vietnam out of his office at the Rand Corporation, and shared them with a reporter from The New York Times, said The Guardian. 

Whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers showing that the American public had been misled about the Vietnam war