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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Extreme water events have been shown to affect human security in many ways. In a research article published today in the new journal Nature Water researchers from Politecnico di Milano and University of California at Berkeley delve deeper into the complex nexus between droughts and conflicts in Central America. …

A lone polar bear navigating sea ice, which this species uses to traverse vast distances in the Arctic to find food. A rapid loss of sea ice in northern latitudes has driven many polar bears onto land and into human settlements to scavenge. Credit: Kathy Crane/NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental LaboratoryTraditionally, research on the effects of climate change has treated its impacts on people and ecosystems as separate entities. However, a recent study has demonstrated the interwoven nature of humans and their environment…

Mass Effect Andromeda is celebrating its 5-year anniversary today, March 21, 2023. Below, we take a look at how the sequel grappled with the complicated legacy of the trilogy that preceded it.Following up Mass Effect 3's widely derided ending is a bit like trying to write a Star Wars movie that canonically takes place after The Rise of Skywalker. What the hell are you actually supposed to do? Both these franchises seemed to simply avoid the question for a while--BioWare followed ME3 with post-launch DLC…

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Food regulatory institutions in the U.K. should have robust mechanisms for addressing commercial conflicts of interest, argues a new article published in the journal Nature Food. The research, published jointly by Emeritus Professor Tim Lang of the Center for Food Policy, City, University of…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Stress and conflict are unavoidable aspects of life and can be highly destructive forces when left unchecked. A survey conducted by the UK government found that work-related stress led to a loss of 17.9 million working days in 2019, which directly affected the country's economic productivity. Previous studies…

Amid all the attention recently to “Trumpty Dumpty’s” do-over presidential candidacy, the midterm elections and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s semi-farewell, one bit of Washington news was overshadowed but shouldn’t be. As with Donald Trump, we must not become inured to this other newsmaker’s travesties.I’m talking about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.Thomas has done it again. Last weekthe longest-serving justice on the nation’s highest court defied widespread calls from legal experts that he recuse himself from cases that…

Musk must face a Delaware judge at a Nov. 14 trial over the claim by investor Richard Tornetta. The decision by Tesla Inc. directors to authorize a $55 billion pay package for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk in 2018 was marred with conflicts of interest and improper disclosures about the performance benchmarks he'd be held to, a disgruntled investor argued in a court filing.Musk, the world's richest person and Tesla's largest shareholder, must face a Delaware judge at a Nov. 14 trial over the claim by investor…

The two leaders discussed energy markets, food security, the situation in Libya, Syria and the Iran nuclear talks. Putin and Al Thani met on the sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Astana. (Reuters)…

EVGA, often considered Nvidia's top add-in-board partner, is making a drastic shift. It's done doing business with Nvidia and will stop making GPUs altogether. That's according to YouTube channels JayZTwoCents and GamersNexus, which both sat down with EVGA CEO Andrew Han to discuss his frustrations with Nvidia as a partner and reasoning for making the decision. Jon Peddie Research also published a brief article on the matter."We are not going to be on Jensen 's lap on stage, so I don't want people to speculate what's…