Perhaps they expected a big bang. Scenes of cities laid waste, dazed survivors confronted by an irradiated post-apocalyptic ...

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2015's Secret Wars wasn't quite a full-blown reboot for the Marvel Universe, but it did lead to a few significant changes (with perhaps the biggest being the fact that Miles Morales now calls ...

There is also no US equivalent to those Russian systems that could be tested to demonstrate equivalence, because the US decided decades ago that developing those systems was unproductive, said a ...

Free Expression: Speaking on Feb. 26, 2025, two unlikely prophets of a new spirituality—co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone, and co-founder of Pinterest, Evan Sharp—entranced an audience of ambitious ...

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Just days after Vladimir Putin stood beside Xi Jinping at Beijing’s grand military parade following the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, Russia’s two largest state-owned enterprises, Rosatom ...

In the past few weeks, Russian drones and jet fighters have repeatedly penetrated the airspace of Poland, Estonia, and other NATO members. Western officials have reacted harshly to those episodes, ...

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SEOUL—Kim Jong Un, seizing on his closer ties with Russia, has recently begun signaling a major policy shift: beefing up North Korea’s outdated conventional arms alongside its nuclear arsenal. The ...

We might go full “Armageddon” on asteroid 2024 YR4. After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space rock from hitting the ...

Miami jumped LSU and Penn State into the No. 2 spot behind Ohio State in The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday while Oklahoma climbed into top 10 for the first time in two years and ...