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In October 2016, while hiking through a treacherous mountain pass, John Tuthill saw something move. He was almost 8,000 feet above sea level in Washington’s Alpine Lakes Wilderness, braving high winds

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For many Portland bike lovers, the year is split into two parts: Pedalpalooza, and time spent waiting for Pedalpalooza. This week, the three treasured months of Pedalpalooza—also known as Bike Summer—

Enrico Fermi unveils a new synchrocyclotron at the University of Chicago in 1951. Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images The Fermi paradox takes its name from a 1950s visit by physicist Enrico Fermi to the Los

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The Portland City Council approved a class-action settlement over disability access Wednesday, May 31. While city leaders championed the lawsuit and settlement, some say the agreement will actually do

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Montana’s Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte became the latest to sign several new anti-transgender laws, including one that will prevent gender-affirming medical care for minors. One thing these new laws

Companies can now sue unions for damages incurred by striking, according to a Supreme Court ruling released on Thursday morning. The case sets a new precedent for how companies can respond to striking

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W hen the Cassini spacecraft reached the end of its lifetime orbiting Saturn in 2017, it had been operating well beyond its original four-year mission. Extended for two years, and then for seven , it

R epublicans and Democrats have reached a debt-ceiling deal. Republicans will agree not to blow up the global economy if Democrats trim federal spending over the next two years, claw back money from t

The musician Sia recently revealed what many had long suspected: She is autistic . The reactions from autistics have been quick and sharp . Sia’s 2021 film Music, about a non-speaking autistic girl’s

Two years after she issued an apology for her depiction of autism in the 2020 film Music , Sia has revealed that she herself was recently diagnosed with autism. In an interview with Survivor finalist

The debt ceiling agreement, which includes almost all of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) changes from the House-passed debt-ceiling-and-cuts bill, would put almost 750,000 older a

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A former railway line running through the heart of Singapore turned into one of its biggest conservation success stories, marking a departure from the more manicured approach to nature that the city-s

An overwhelming majority of Multnomah County voters say homelessness in the Portland area is “an out-of-control disaster” and people in crisis living on the streets should be required to undergo addic

quantum physics Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing February 22, 2023 The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two independent

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quantum gravity The Physicist Who Glues Together Universes May 25, 2023 Renate Loll has helped pioneer a radically new approach to quantum gravity. She assumes that the fabric of space-time is a blend

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I’ve been trying to think about how to talk about Mrs. Davis . Do I go super personal, here in the privacy of the internet? Do I talk about the religion puns? Do I put Father Ziegler’s arc in conversa

Portland’s newest safe rest village welcomed 67 temporary residents Friday in North Portland. The Peninsula Crossing village is the fifth of at least seven scheduled to open so far under the city-run