New York Times: In 2006 the governor of California Arnold Schwarzengger signed into law the Global Warming Solutions Act, a series of emissions-limiting measures intended to bring California into compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. An initiative to suspend the law will appear on statewide ballots when Californians go to the polls in November. As the New York Times‘s Adam Nagourney reports, the initiative is getting considerable support from outside California, most notably and generously from Charles and David Koch. The billionaire brothers from Kansas have donated $1 million toward persuading voters to vote in favor of the ballot initiative.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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