The Drought Affecting Lake Mead
Lake Mead, the United States’ largest reservoir, is draining rapidly. Due to an extreme climate change-fueled drought and an increase in demand for water, Lake Mead registered its lowest level…
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LHCb Reports New Observations of CP Asymmetries
New results from the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration at CERN were presented at the Rencontres de Moriond Electroweak and a CERN seminar, showing a significant asymmetry between charmless decays…
“The Most Ambitious Project on Earth:” Saudi Smart City NEOM Appoints First Deputy CEO
As plans for the megacity develop, Saudi Arabia has appointed Banque Saudi Franci CEO, Rayan Fayez, as the first-ever deputy CEO of its NEOM project. Described by the US-Saudi Business…
Palestinian-Israeli Tensions Rise During Ramadan
Ramadan saw an increase in Palestinian-Israeli tension as Israeli security forces conducted raids on Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque and fighting in Palestinian territories escalated. This comes as a repeat of last…
Defacing the Three Figures
On December 7, 2021, visitors at Russia’s Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center noticed one painting was slightly off. Anna Leporskaya’s Three Figures, a renowned painting from 1932 and is estimated to…
First Woman in the World Cured of HIV
After receiving a stem cell transplant involving umbilical cord blood, an American, mixed-race patient has become the first woman and third person ever to be cured of HIV. In June…