For the first time in history, earthlings can hear what a black hole sounds like: a low-pitched groaning, as if a very creaky heavy door was being opened again and again.
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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.
The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.
Ukrainians arrive in Anchorage, with hundreds more expected in coming weeks
The United Nations estimates that more than six million Ukrainians have been displaced since Russia invaded earlier this year.
36 years after ousting Marcos, Filipinos elect son as president
The dictator’s son mounted a strong comeback from a 2016 defeat, bringing jubilation to loyalists and wounding a generation that ousted his father.
The Biden administration is working to ease the ongoing shortage of baby formula
During the first week of May, the average out-of-stock rate for baby formula at retailers across the country was 43%.
What would overturning Roe mean for birth control?
Overturning Roe v. Wade could threaten birth control and other care, experts say.