Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been before, and almost certainly will be again, as bouts of extreme drought, followed by deluge, become ...

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An eight-day trip into space turned into more than eight months for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.

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What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...