Located 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b[1] offers astrophysicists a window into the dynamic processes that shape planets across the galaxy. The star it orbits is baking and stripping away the planet’s atmosphere, and that escaped atmosphere is being sculpted by the star into a vast, cometlike tail at least...
US drone warfare faces questions of legitimacy, study of military chaplains shows
Are drone strikes legitimate, meaning on sound moral and legal footing? How people perceive the legitimacy of U.S. drone strikes – firing missiles from remotely piloted aircraft at terrorist and insurgent leaders – is central to whether and how the government can continue to use them[1].
The American public tends not to question[2] military...
Future pandemics will have the same human causes as ancient outbreaks − lessons from anthropology can help prevent them
The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the turn of this century.
Since 2000, the world has experienced 15 novel Ebola epidemics[1], the global spread of a 1918-like influenza strain[2] and major outbreaks of three new and unusually deadly coronavirus infections: SARS[3], MERS[4] and,...
How to tell if a conspiracy theory is probably false
Conspiracy theories are everywhere[1], and they can involve just about anything.
People believe false conspiracy theories[2] for a wide range of reasons[3] – including the fact that there are real conspiracies[4], like efforts by the Sackler family to profit by concealing the addictiveness of oxycontin[5] at the cost of countless American...
Read more https://theconversation.com/how-to-tell-if-a-conspiracy-theory-is-probably-false-229081