Paul Auster, Prolific American Writer and Filmmaker, Dies at 77

Paul Auster, the prolific American novelist behind the acclaimed “New York Trilogy,” has died. He was 77 years old. Auster died at his home in Brooklyn on Tuesday from complications from lung cancer, ... Read More

Paul Auster, Prolific and Experimental Man of Letters and Filmmaker, Dies at 77

(NEW YORK) — Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as “The New York Trilogy” and “4 3 2 1,” has died at age 77. Read More

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Kate Baggaley has been contributing regularly to Popular Science since 2017. She frequently covers nature, climate, and the COVID-19 pandemic, but has also reported on many other aspects of ... Read More

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Plant life first emerged on land about 550 million years ago, and an international research team co-led by University of Nebraska–Lincoln computational biologist Yanbin Yin has cracked the ... Read More

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Blade Runner 2099: What We Know So Far About Amazon Prime's Sci-Fi Sequel Series

With his acclaimed 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, prolific science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick introduced a bleak, thought-provoking, and alarmingly plausible vision of the ... Read More

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May 2 (UPI) -- SpaceX successfully launched the Maxar 1 mission carrying two next-gen WorldView Legion satellites Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. April 29 (UPI) -- Dozens ... Read More

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Every weekday, Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, selects a set of significant and interesting science-related news articles from the mainstream media so you can stay on top of some of the ... Read More

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Feb. 1, 2023 — People who share a political ideology have more similar 'neural fingerprints' of political words and process new information in similar ways, ... U.S. Political Partisanship ... Read More

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The past 10 years have seen a series of "warm blobs" in the northeast Pacific Ocean. These marine heat waves do widespread damage to ecosystems and marine life in the area, but the mechanisms by ... Read More