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Weather

Report Reveals World’s Fourth Largest Lake Now a Deadly Desert

Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. By 2015 most of that shiny surface was reduced to a hauntingly barren expanse, birthing the world’s newest desert and impacting 3 million people that live in the surrounding region. The Aral Sea once spanned 68,000 […]

Sports

Video: Kendrick Lamar Reveals SZA as Super Bowl 59 Halftime Show Guest Performer | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Coachella Apple Music announced Friday that SZA will be featured as a special guest in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX halftime show performance at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Feb. 9. The news was revealed in a video posted on X, which included SZA giving Lamar the Gatorade bath […]

Science

Study of biologists quitting academia reveals hidden gender gaps

Publishing records provide information about the lengths of scientists’ careers in academia. Credit: Nickbeer/Getty Female scientists are quitting academic publishing earlier than their male counterparts, even in biological-science disciplines that have roughly equal representation. A study tracked the scholarly publications of more than 86,000 scientists in 38 countries working in neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, […]

Science

Drone reveals ancient fortress is 40x larger than archaeologists once thought

Drone photographs taken of a 3,000-year-old “mega fortress” nestled deep in the Caucasus Mountains reveal the settlement is actually 40 times larger than archaeologists once thought. New aerial images of the Dmanisis Gora settlement, located in present-day Georgia, show a large land area well guarded by steep gorges and plastered with various stone structures and […]