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AI, robotics, Boston Dynamics, innovative New Year celebration

Robot Rhythm: Androids’ New Year Dance Celebration Goes Viral

climate change, 2020, biggest stories

The Biggest Climate Change Stories of 2020

healthcare, cybersecurity, threats, targets

Health Will Be on Cybersecurity’s Front Line in 2021

stimulus bill, climate change, global warming, significant legislation

‘The Most Significant Climate Legislation Ever’: How Stimulus Bill Tackles Warming Planet

2020, pandemic, history, humanity's progress

2020 Was Bad — But Not Nearly the Worst

Amazon, Jeff Bezos, aggressive competition, antitrust probe

How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners

spending bill, inmates, education grants and initiatives

Spending Bill to Restore Federal College Grants for Inmates

plants, circadian rhythm, DNA, climate change, new research

Plants Can Be Larks or Night Owls — Just Like Us: Study

greenhouse gases, US emissions, study, net-zero paths, 2050

Study Finds Viable Pathways to Net-Zero US Emissions by 2050

user data, FTC demand, privacy, social media and tech companies, jeff bezos

Amazon, TikTok, Facebook, and Others Ordered to Explain What They Do With User Data

monarch butterfly, threatened species designation, climate change, drop offThe authors write, “Trump administration officials are expected to say this week whether the monarch butterfly, a colorful and familiar backyard visitor now caught in a global extinction crisis, should receive federal designation as a threatened species. Stepped-up use of farm herbicides, climate change and destruction of milkweed plants on which they depend have caused a massive decline of the orange-and-black butterflies.” Photo credit: Tony Hisgett / Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0)

Endangered-Species Decision Expected on Beloved Monarch Butterfly

Treasury and Commerce departments, cyberespionage attack, Russia

Treasury, Commerce Departments Hacked in Months-long Global Cyberespionage Campaign

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