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Archaeology

1,800-Year-Old Spices Are Earliest Evidence of Curry Making in Southeast Asia

Archaeologists found evidence of spices such as turmeric and cloves from ancient Vietnam, suggesting South Asians shared their culinary traditions via an ancient maritime trade route

Timmy Broderick

History

What Was the Manhattan Project?

The top-secret Manhattan Project resulted in the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945

Tom Metcalfe

Climate Change

How We Can Adapt to Live with Extreme Heat

We can run from hurricanes, hide behind seawalls and buy wildfire insurance. Here’s how we can try to live with heat waves

Daniel Cusick and E&E News

Black Holes

Oppenheimer Almost Discovered Black Holes Before He Became ‘Destroyer of Worlds’

Before leading the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer co-authored a paper explaining that the most massive stars must eventually become what we would now call a black hole

Meghan Bartels

Health Care

C-section Rates Are Way Too High. We Need to Hold Doctors and Hospitals Accountable

Around half a million excess cesarean births occur every year in the U.S., putting mothers’ lives at risk

Ann Ledbetter | Opinion