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Some of the stranger features on Pluto remain tough to explain

Enlarge / Wright Mons, at center. Note the lumpy nature of its flanks extends to other nearby areas. (credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute) When we look at the features on other bodies in our Solar System, there are often obvious analogs much closer to home. For example, sets of parallel ridges on […]

‘Challenger’ banks Have Been Available to Get a record year as Company model remains Unclear

Big investors are financing online banks greater than {} , betting these upstarts’ low overhead and nimble technologies piles will allow them keep catching clients from conventional financial institutions. {This season, all these so-called “challenger banks” have {} a total of $4.6 billion over 101 prices –and are on pace to break up the record […]

Biden’s inauguration was good news for our world

Good morning. David Meyer here in Berlin, filling in for Alan. I’m a South-African-British dual citizen living in Germany. So, while I’ve been saddened by the rancor that’s infected American politics over recent years, and while I naturally have personal opinions on the issues that divide the country, I’m not an American voter, and my […]