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Why the Earth needs a course correction now June 14, 2021MIT The massive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on lives and economies underscores that our collective survival and well-being hinges on our willingness to confront environmental threats that have global consequences. Key to protecting lives and making communities more resilient to such threats will be an emphasis on proactive, science-based decision-making at all levels of society. And among the most serious risks that science can help i...

El Salvador's Chaparrastique (San Miguel) volcano with Bitcoin "laser eyes" added. Image via Twitter user @Alexa_A...

Yiran Fan, from China, was among five random victims fatally shot before the gunman was killed by police.

Share Adoctoral student’s dissertation usually marks a new beginning—the last step in a long academic journey and the start of a promising career. But as Chicago Booth professor Zhiguo He read through the work left behind by his former student, the late Yiran Fan, SM’15,he felt a profound sense of loss. Yiran Fan Photo courtesy of the Fama-Miller Center Fan was shot and killed on Jan. 9, devastating the University of Chicago community. Originally from China, the 30-year-old student was in...

Changes in Europe provide a sustainability blueprint for the world

Toggle open close On August 27, 2019, the U.S. announced that it had ratified the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated Commercial Fishing on the High Seas of the Central Arctic Ocean.REF The object of the agreement is to apply precautionary conservation and management measures to ensure the sustainable use of fish stocks in waters outside the jurisdictions of the signatory nations. Although the agreement has a laudable purpose, it should have taken the form of a treaty, not an executive agreement. ...

EGLIN AFB — The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), a combined group of civilian and Air Force and Navy uniformed personnel overseeing the ongoing development of the F-35 stealth fighter jet, has come under criticism from the Department of Defense (DoD) for apparent deficiencies at an F-35 software laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base. In a January report, the DoDs office of the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E), which oversees major defense acquisition programs, indicated that the...

The company is under pressure to deliver improvements to the aircraft’s reliability and operating costs as the jet’s leading customer, the US Air Force, considers cheaper alternatives such as the Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter or a clean-sheet 4.5-generation combat aircraft.

Credits: Photo: Kelley Travers/MITEI Caption: Karen Tapia-Ahumada, a research scientist and digital learning fellow at MITEI, presents at MITEI’s 2019 Annual Research Conference. Credits: Photo: Kelley Travers/MITEI Caption: Pablo Duenas-Martinez, a research scientist at MITEI, is focused on the long-term outlook for energy systems and how to provide reliable and a...

UN Women Partners with Somaliland Legal Group for Empowerment of Women Format © UNSOM Hargeisa – UN Women is partnering with the Somaliland Women Lawyers Association (SWLA) to improve women’s access to the local justice system and enhance their legal empowerment. “UN Women is pleased that the partnership with SWLA will support legal empowerment interventions for the most marginalized through the training of community volunteers, the provision of legal aid, and by establishing women coali...