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Nuclear Disarmament

US Nuclear Disarmament Mastermind Richard Lugar Dies at 87

The six-term Indiana Senator engineered the weapons of mass destruction disarmament program with former Soviet Union states that was effective until 2013 and was succeeded by a renewed agreement.Richard G. Lugar, a six-term Republican senator from Indiana, di…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Astroturfing

‘My top 3 changes every day’: San Francisco voters turn out to hear Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 pitch

SAN FRANCISCO Though the line of people snaking outside the Irish Cultural Center late Sunday morning kept growing, few Beto 2020 shirts could be spotted in the crowd. Democratic presidential candidate Beto ORourke was making his first appearance in famously…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Astroturfing

‘My top 3 changes every day’: San Francisco voters turn out to hear Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 pitch

Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rouke made a campaign speech Tuesday before a crowd of Penn State University students, promising a grassroots campaign and taking tough questions from the audience. (March 19) AP SAN FRANCISCO Though the line of peopl…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Holocaust

LA remembers, honors victims of Holocaust

Hundreds of people gathered at a Los Angeles park to honor the memory of the millions who died in the Holocaust.

bubmagApril 29, 2019

AR-15

An ‘AR-type assault weapon’ was used in Poway synagogue shooting, police say. Was it legal in California?

The weapon used in Saturday's fatal shooting at a California synagogue may have been legal depending on how it was configured and whether it was registered. San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said the shooter at Chabad of Poway used an AR-type assault we…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Autonomous vehicles make congestion pricing even more critical

Autonomous vehicles will soon be ubiquitous on city streets. Before this happens, we should ask ourselves: Will they whisk us quickly through cities or make traffic worse? A car is a car, whether self-driving or people driventaking up a great deal more space…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Black Hole

Daily briefing: How to see quantum weirdness with our own eyes

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Scientific simulation of a black hole consuming a neutron star.Credit: A. Tonita, L. Rezzolla, F. Pannarale Gravitational waves might have just delivered t…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Black Hole

Daily briefing: How to see quantum weirdness with our own eyes

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Scientific simulation of a black hole consuming a neutron star.Credit: A. Tonita, L. Rezzolla, F. Pannarale Gravitational waves might have just delivered t…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Black Hole

A rapidly changing jet orientation in the stellar-mass black-hole system V404 Cygni

1.Ingram, A. et al. A quasi-periodic modulation of the iron line centroid energy in the black hole binary H1743322. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 461, 19671980 (2016). 2.Lense, J. & Thirring, H. Über den Einfluß der Eigenrotation der Zentralkörper auf die Be…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

Black Hole

A rapidly changing jet orientation in the stellar-mass black-hole system V404 Cygni

1.Ingram, A. et al. A quasi-periodic modulation of the iron line centroid energy in the black hole binary H1743322. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 461, 19671980 (2016). 2.Lense, J. & Thirring, H. Über den Einfluß der Eigenrotation der Zentralkörper auf die Be…

bubmagApril 29, 2019

US Nuclear Disarmament Mastermind Richard Lugar Dies at 87

‘My top 3 changes every day’: San Francisco voters turn out to hear Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 pitch

‘My top 3 changes every day’: San Francisco voters turn out to hear Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 pitch

LA remembers, honors victims of Holocaust

An ‘AR-type assault weapon’ was used in Poway synagogue shooting, police say. Was it legal in California?

Autonomous vehicles make congestion pricing even more critical

Daily briefing: How to see quantum weirdness with our own eyes

Daily briefing: How to see quantum weirdness with our own eyes

A rapidly changing jet orientation in the stellar-mass black-hole system V404 Cygni

A rapidly changing jet orientation in the stellar-mass black-hole system V404 Cygni

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