Indonesia has promised to stop clearing jungle for plantations. So why are endangered apes still on the front lines of the conservation battle?
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Month: June 2019
What if Hawaii Missile Message was a Hack?
What if the missile warning to residents in Hawaii 18 months ago wasn't a "miscommunication" but a hack done by North Korea? Researchers show how easy it is to spoof an emergency alert.
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What It’s Like To Be A Queer Sex Blogger In Homophobic Russia
Sasha Kazantseva runs a blog that's teaching Russian women to take back their bodies.
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Why are million of Chinese people trying to get back inside Beijing’s digital firewall?
Many Chinese people find that when they go overseas and leave behind the Great Firewall, they crave a return to the heavily censored content they're accustomed to consuming online.
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A Genetic Ghost Hunt: What Ancient Humans Live On In Our DNA?
When the Neanderthal genome was first sequenced in 2010 and compared with ours, scientists noticed that genes from Homo neanderthalensis also showed up in our own DNA. The conclusion was inescapable: Our ancestors mated and reproduced with another lineage of now-extinct humans who live on today in our genes.
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Marxist Minds: At Party School, China grooms future leaders
In a secretive school in China's capital rows of students face a giant video projection of Xi Jinping, making careful notes on the lecture on their leader's guiding principles. Sitting in red-covered chairs in a school dotted with statues of late Chinese leaders, being groomed.
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California’s mighty predator — the mountain lion — faces ‘extinction vortex’
As the mountain lions of Southern California approach what some experts call an “extinction vortex,” environmentalists are demanding protective status.
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Woman falls asleep on flight and wakes up in pitch dark on locked and empty plane
‘I think I’m having a bad dream because…how is this happening!!?’
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‘Jet in a box’ powers Antarctic base
Engineers succeed in automating science experiments at the UK's Halley research station.
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The ‘Forgotten’ US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655
On the rare occasions the US mainstream media refer to the US shootdown of an Iranian airliner in 1988, they sustain the myth it was simply a "mistake".
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