Heat waves have been laying siege to regional temperature records around the world since the last week of June, as large areas of heat pressure, or heat domes, strewn across the hemisphere, have increased temperatures in relatively mild climates such as Canada, Ireland, Scotland and Siberia, and is being blamed for at least 33 deaths in Canada’s city of Montreal.
When speculating on what the future might look like in his 1927 book "Possible Worlds and Other Papers", geneticist and evolutionary biologist J. B. S.read more
President Donald J. Trump has announced that he has ordered the formation of a sixth branch of the U.S. military, adding the "Space Force" to the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines, and Navy. Trump made the announcement at a meeting of the National Space Council on June 18, saying that "It is not enough to merely have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space." According to Trump, the Department of Defense and Pentagon would "immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces… We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the space force, separate but equal…"
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One of the key challenges in facing a rapidly-changing climate is accurately predicting how global warming will affect individual regions around the planet: one area may suddenly be stricken with prolonged drought, while another may be inundated with catastrophic flooding. Keeping ahead of potentially disastrous conditions that can lead to situations such as these will be required for policy makers and emergency planners if they are to save lives and livelihoods, but our current climate models still appear to be inadequate in providing the fine details needed. The solution: according to a professor at Columbia University, the secret to our survival lies in the branch of artificial intelligence called machine learning.
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