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Daniel Bubb, an assistant professor in 51ԹϺ’s Honors College and former airline pilot, understands why you would be hesitant to board your next flight. You aren’t alone, he says. Aircraft collisions and malfunctions in recent weeks — including the deadly crash late last month in Washington, D.C. — have left many air travelers understandably nervous.
Way back in 2000, I wrote a piece called "Dressed for Excess: How Hollywood Affects the Professional Behavior of Lawyers," published in the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy.
After the general election in early 2024, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan formed a situation of "the government is small and the opposition is large". The Blue and White opposition parties and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party have clashed many times over legislative amendments and budget reviews. Recently, civic groups supporting different camps have launched recall campaigns. In response, BBC Chinese visited the streets of Taipei to understand people's views. In May 2024, physical conflict broke out in the Legislative Yuan over the "Congressional Reform Bill"; at the end of the year, disputes broke out again over the Kuomintang and the People's Party's promotion of amendments to the election and recall law and the constitution. Recently, the opposition party's move to cut the government's annual budget has further intensified political confrontation.
NASA's Perseverance rover has successfully collected its first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples, marking a historic step in Martian exploration. A new study highlights these early sample returns and their implications for understanding Mars' past.
Modern physics assumes a universe with more than four dimensions. This also seems to be indicated by studies in medicine, perinatal psychology and physics involving people at the time of death and after near-death experiences.
In the search for extraterrestrial life, few things are more valuable than a scoop of dirt, provided it’s from the right place. NASA’s Perseverance rover has now collected such samples from Mars’ Jezero Crater, a location specifically chosen for its potential to reveal whether the Red Planet once harbored life, according to a new international study.
President Donald Trump vowed to work with Congress to modernize the Federal Aviation Agency’s safety infrastructure used by air traffic controllers after a plane crashed into a river near Washington and a widespread outage last weekend for the system that gives pilots real-time safety alerts.
The Laken Riley Act expands detention for undocumented immigrants, including those accused – but not convicted – of low-level crimes like shoplifting.
