Monthly Archives: June 2020

Lots of drama but little certainty in the Kentucky and New York primaries

One after another, left-wing challengers faced New York headlines, including Representative Gregory Meeks, chairman of the Queens Democratic Party; Representative Yvette Clarke, who faced a number of upstart candidates in Brooklyn; and Representative Carolyn Maloney, who represents parts of three boroughs of New York City. Jerrold Nadler, the chair of …

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You could generate power by hanging garbage in a black hole

Revisiting the classics In 1969, physicist Roger Penrose theorized that space civilizations could generate power by hanging objects in a black hole. For decades, the idea was impossible to test because we have no way of traveling to a black hole, or even surviving the trip. But now a team …

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