David Silbey is an associate professor of history at Cornell University where he specializes in military history, defense policy and battlefield analysis. He says talk of a Ukrainian counter-offensive in Bakhmut may be part of broader strategy.

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Richard T. Clark is a political scientist who studies policymaking at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Given the IMF’s prior hesitance to give to countries at war, he says the question at hand, is why the agreement came now rather than earlier in the crisis.

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On Tuesday, as the Academy released its picks for Oscars contenders, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” clearly lead the pack with 11 awards nominations.

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Richard T. Clark, a political scientist who studies policymaking at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and how these organizations bargain with member states, comments on global lending reform as the U.S. climate envoy presses the World Bank.

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Adrienne Bitar, an expert in the history and culture of American food, comments on a new set of proposed rules from the Food and Drug Administration for labeling food packages as "healthy."

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will release its first full-color images and spectroscopic data in one week. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope — the largest and most powerful space science observatory ever built — is fueled for its Dec. 22 launch. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

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Cornell University scientists are playing key roles in the launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

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The newly released Astro2020 decadal survey has ranked the projects the astronomer community wants to prioritize for the next 10 years. The 614-page NASA-sponsored report highlights the search for extraterrestrial life, as well as stressing the need for greater diversity among astronomy’s ranks.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

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Sanctions historian Nicholas Mulder comments on Russia's demands for sanction relief for green energy projects.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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