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Explainer: Suicide bomber kills at least 95 people at Kabul airport

12th - Higher Ed
At least 95 people were killed and 150 others wounded as a bomb was detonated by IS-K, the Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State group, at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport last Thursday, according to the BBC.
Instructional Video0:56
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Google proposes data cable to link U.S. and Europe

12th - Higher Ed
Data cable will link New York City to the city of Bude in Britain and the city of Bilbao in Spain, according to Alphabet Inc.
Instructional Video1:02
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Hot super-Earths do not owe their brightness to molten lava or cooled glass as formerly assumed: scientists

12th - Higher Ed
Hot super-Earths are fiery rocky planets orbiting so close to their suns that their surface is heated to lava oceans.
Instructional Video1:11
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Archeologists document first use of maize as food in Mesoamerica: study

12th - Higher Ed
Archeologists may have found out when cave-dwelling prehistoric Mesoamericans began eating maize as a staple, according to a new study in Science Advances.
Instructional Video1:08
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La Nina emerging, set to worsen extreme drought in the U.S.

12th - Higher Ed
Climate scientists say a La Nina cycle is emerging in the Pacific, and it’s going to make a very bad drought even worse.
Instructional Video1:58
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U.S. tests new Chinese notification law with military operations in South China Sea

12th - Higher Ed
A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group and a destroyer operated in the South China Sea on Wednesday, days after China introduced a law requiring foreign vessels to give notice before entering waters it claims as its own.
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NASA proposes steam-powered hopping robot for missions to the solar system’s icy moons

12th - Higher Ed
NASA says it might use a steam-powered hopping robot to explore the icy terrain of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Instructional Video1:57
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Evidence for the hypothetical existence of Planet 9 increases

12th - Higher Ed
Evidence of the existence of a ninth planet in our solar system is unlikely to be a fluke, according to a pre-print of a California Institute of Technology study.
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China dispatches fighter jets after U.S. health chief visits Taiwan

12th - Higher Ed
Taiwan’s Central News Agency reports that two Chinese warplanes briefly crossed the centerline of Taiwan Strait at 9 a.m. Monday.
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Explainer: July 4 Lunar Eclipse

12th - Higher Ed
A penumbral eclipse will occur over the Americas between July 4 and July 5, according to NASA.
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Chinese aircraft enter Taiwanese airspace for fifth consecutive day

12th - Higher Ed
Fifteen Chinese military aircraft entered the southwest portion of Taiwan's air defense identification zone on Wednesday, April 7.
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NASA selects Northrop Grumman for lunar space station module

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has selected Northrop Grumman to design the habitation module on the Gateway lunar orbiting outpost.
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China runs military exercises inside Taiwan’s ADIZ after ‘provocations’

12th - Higher Ed
Chinese fighter jets and warships exercised off the southwest and southeast of Taiwan on Tuesday, with the People’s Liberation Army's Eastern Theater Command saying it carried out “joint fire assault and other drills using actual troops
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Russian spacecraft shadowing U.S. spy satellite: U.S. Space Force commander

12th - Higher Ed
Two mysterious Russian spacecraft have been shadowing a U.S. reconnaissance satellite since November, coming to as close to 100 miles at times.
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COVID-19 may infect brain cells: study

12th - Higher Ed
A new study from Johns Hopkins University suggests the coronavirus may infect the brain and replicate in brain cells.
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USS Bonhomme Richard burns for the second day.

12th - Higher Ed
The Navy says the fire aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard reportedly began in the lower vehicle storage area and led to an internal explosion at 8:30 a.m on Sunday. Firefighters are still battling the flames as the ship remains at Naval...
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U.S. says Iran directed drone strike against U.S. force

12th - Higher Ed
Officials said they believe the attacks involved as many as five kamikaze drones laden with explosive charges.
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Taiwan signs US arms deal for advanced F-16 jets: Report

12th - Higher Ed
Taipei has signed a U.S. arms deal for 66 F-16V fighters, while upgrading older models to F-16V standard
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China can simultaneously imprison more than one million in Xinjiang

12th - Higher Ed
China has built the capacity to simultaneously imprison at least 1.01 million people in Xinjiang.
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Taiwan drives Chinese warplanes from its airspace

12th - Higher Ed
Chinese Su-30 fighter jets briefly entered Taiwanese airspace hours after the country’s defense ministry announced the dates of annual military exercises that test its capabilities to ward off a Chinese invasion.
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Difficult to Control: Obstreperous

Pre-K - Higher Ed
While the words uncooperative, unruly, and unrestrained typically carry negative connotations, there are times when these qualities can be helpful. For example, most activists will agree that being obstreperous, or difficult to control,...
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Questions asked over U.S. funding for Israel

12th - Higher Ed
President Joe Biden is being challenged from within the Democratic Party over the $3.8 billion of aid the U.S. sends to Israel every year.
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Researchers to probe undersea ‘blue hole’ off Florida: report

12th - Higher Ed
An international team will explore the depths of a massive undersea cavern called the Green Banana off the coast of Florida.
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China is helping Saudi Arabia build its own ballistic missiles

12th - Higher Ed
The first ‘unambiguous evidence’ that Saudi Arabia is building its own ballistic missiles with the help of China has emerged through satellite images.