The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is composed of five permanent members: the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, and France. These members have the power to veto any substantive (significant actions or decisions not considered...

Although the United States has announced intentions to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, 194 countries are still part of the agreement, including China, the world's #1 carbon dioxide emitter.

Under the agreement, each country sets its own...

All US states were created with state constitutions that parallel the federal constitution in important structural ways, notably by having two separate chambers of the legislature. Some early colonies were initially established with unicameral...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 and the subsequent war has had significant impacts on the Ukrainian economy. According to a recent estimate by the Ukrainian Economy Ministry, GDP dropped by 30.4% in 2022, with an inflation rate...

Executive Order 6102, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, prohibited the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the United States. The order was aimed at increasing the money supply during the Great...

There are plenty of programming languages (PLs) being used across various fields of business, science, and more. Some are considered suitable for specific tasks, while others have broader applications. For those studying or seeking...

In the Wolfram Physics Project, Stephen Wolfram and co-authors have proposed a class of models to represent fundamental physics.

As Russia's war in Ukraine continues, concerns remain that Russia may foment unrest in Moldova by recognizing Transnistria, a breakaway region in eastern Moldova on Ukraine's western border, which already hosts Russian peacekeepers...

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A tweet by @blader has sparked a debate about whether the upcoming GPT-5 will be considered an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or not:

i have been told that gpt5 is scheduled to complete training this december and that openai expects it to...

So-called "third parties" are political parties in the United State that aren't the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. Members of third parties) rarely win elections in America. However, the last third party member who won a senate election...

Illegal wildlife trade is a major global problem, threatening biodiversity and fueling organized crime. Space-based technologies, such as satellite imaging, could potentially be used to track and mitigate this illegal trade by providing near...

Package delivery by drone has been a goal of companies such as Amazon, who in 2020 won approval from the FAA to deliver packages by drone.

Neuroscientist and fiction author Erik Hoel wrote the following about drone delivery in the year 2050 in a...

The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, scheduled for Tuesday, November 5, 2024. It will be the first presidential election after electoral votes are redistributed according to the post–2020...

In late February and March 2014, following the Euromaidan uprising and removal of pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, thinly disguised Russian military and paramilitary forces seized control of the Crimean peninsula in the far South of...

The leaders of today’s frontier AI companies have talked about AGI solving humanity’s hardest problems and “aiding in the discovery of new scientific knowledge that changes the limits of possibility.” At the same time, discussions around what...