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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is already one of the biggest hits of the year, offering a whole world for its pilots to explore in a year when travel is otherwise limited. With such an enormous world to build, MFS2020 relies on algorithms to generate most of it, which has resulted …

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation on state television late Tuesday, hours after he and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse were arrested by mutual soldiers. The coup – the latest uprising in a decade-long cycle of unrest – follows months of massive anti-government protests and an escalating uprising of Islamist …

President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Memo: Democrats pitch Biden as the back-to-normal candidate Obama congratulates Biden with formal nomination Jill Biden gives personal portrait of man Joe MORE On Wednesday, Americans were discouraged from buying the Goodyear tires after it was reported that employees of companies in Kansas were not wearing …

The Trump administration has taken another small step toward its larger leap to commercialize space laboratory activities, even as NASA struggles to put current commercialization plans in place. A new White House memo released (August 14) said research with low-Earth orbit “on new platforms” – commercial facilities that could succeed …

Copyright Getty Images The construction of large-scale dams has played a surprising role in limiting rising seas, scientists say. In the past century, melting glaciers and the thermal expansion of seawater levels have risen. But this new study finds that dams almost stopped the rising sea in the 1970s because …