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The key to cutting emissions from cars and light trucks that are heating the planet could lie with the nation’s super drivers, the small percentage of American motorists who drive, on average, about 110 miles per day. If more of those drivers switched to electric vehicles from gasoline-powered models, it would make a major dent […]

As I sat in a dark, cavernous movie theater in Berlin watching the film “Oppenheimer,” my mind was thousands of miles away. Like many other people who turned out to see the biopic, I was captivated by Christopher Nolan’s portrayal of the Trinity test and Cillian Murphy’s performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the singularly ambitious,

It also said that some existing flood defences have not been properly looked after. The MPs say a £34m shortfall in funding for the Environment Agency to maintain defences had meant that only 94% of its assets were properly maintained. As a result 203,000 English homes are actually at an increased risk of flooding, according

Brian Barczyk, a world-famous reptile expert whose upbeat videos attracted millions of fans on social media and who starred in the reality TV show “Venom Hunters” on Discovery died on Sunday at his home in Michigan. He was 54. The cause was pancreatic cancer, according to Stephanie Kent, a representative for The Reptarium, a reptile

More than 40 countries that are home to about half of the world’s population — including the United States, India and South Africa — will be electing their leaders this year. My colleagues at The Times report that it’s “one of the largest and most consequential democratic exercises in living memory,” which “will affect how

When Bobi died in October in Portugal, he was hailed at the oldest dog ever to have lived, at 31 years, 5 months. But doubts about his true age have led the Guinness Book of World Records to say on Tuesday that it will “temporarily pause” the record for an investigation. Bobi was a Rafeiro

The problem with reprogramming adult cells to become embryonic is that in most attempts, mistakes are made in the reprogramming, and very few end up becoming born and fewer still are born healthy – between 1 and 3% in most mammals. And it has proved harder still with rhesus monkeys, with no births until the

Every morning, Ishfaaq Ahmad Malik, a ski instructor in Indian-controlled Kashmir, opens his bedroom window and, like many others in the region, wonders: Where is the snow? “This has never happened before in January. Not in my lifetime,” said Mr. Malik, 65. “Definitely not in Gulmarg.” Each winter, Gulmarg, one of Asia’s largest and highest

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Wednesday that, on paper, are about a group of commercial fishermen who oppose a government fee that they consider unreasonable. But the lawyers who have helped to propel their case to the nation’s highest court have a far more powerful backer: the petrochemicals billionaire Charles Koch.