Grad Students Strike at Harvard, University With $68 Billion Endowment
“None of us here, despite attending the wealthiest university in the entire world, make a living wage.”
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Hunger may play a role in alcohol addiction, new study finds
Three-Body Orbits [Gallery]
There are no generalized solutions to the three-body problem. Say you have three planets orbiting each other: it’s impossible to calculate how they will move using Newton’s laws of motion and gravity.
Unlike the two-body problem, the three-body problem has no general closed-form analytic solution. The differential equations that govern the motions of three gravitating bodies are not integrable and cannot be solved to give explicit formulas for the positions of the bodies as a function of time. For most initial conditions, the dynamical system for three orbiting bodies is chaotic, and the only way to predict their motions is to estimate them using numerical methods.
But thousands of stable three-body orbits have been found — their paths repeat after a given interval. The Three Body Orbits website is an atlas of some of those orbits: you can watch each three-body system play itself out in a wide variety of different shapes and complexities. There’s this simple figure 8, this slightly less simple one, and this one that looks like a spirograph.
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Massive sinkholes open up across Turkey as it struggles with drought and climate change
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During his decades-long career, the retiring senator blocked climate action at every opportunity.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/11/mitch-mcconnells-climate-legacy/
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Climate.us provides public access to climate data, tools, and analysis.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/11/climate-resources-taken-offline-under-trump-now-back-online/
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Weather provided ideal conditions for enhanced ozone depletion
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/2026-ozone-hole/
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A push by China to revive its mangrove forests is paying off. Not only have mangroves colonized large areas of coastline, but the new forests have drawn scores of new bird species. Read more on E360 →
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-mangrove-restoration-bird-species
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Voters in Athens, Ohio, chose to add about $1.80 a month to their utility bills to help fund local solar projects.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/11/an-ohio-city-is-raising-about-100000-a-year-for-solar-through-a-carbon-fee/
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Grudges are bad for both physical and mental health
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The story of 2026:
Democrats showed up, turned out, and turned way up
Republicans stayed home
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Researchers have found that snowstorms are delivering vast numbers of tiny plastic particles to remote reaches of California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Snowmelt is a major source of fresh water for the state. Read more on E360 →
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/sierra-nevada-snowfall-microplastics
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Is research funding now a lottery? Elite funder ERC swamped by applications
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A leading marine scientist and conservation strategist explores the surprising relationship between whales, ocean health, and climate change – and what their recovery can teach us about protecting the planet.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/why-whales-are-climate-heroes-who-also-need-our-protection/
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Huge waves and tides contain massive amounts of energy, but technology to capture that energy has been slow to develop.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/can-we-harness-the-oceans-energy/
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Plug-in cars, including both plug-in hybrids and fully electric vehicles, accounted for two in three new passenger vehicles sold in China in September, according to industry data. Read more on E360 →
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-september-2026-plug-in-car-sales
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Current climate policies put the world on a course for 2.8 degrees C of warming this century, a gross breach of international climate targets, according to a new U.N. report. Read more on E360 →
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/emissions-gap-2026
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Plug-in systems are small but can save renters and homeowners hundreds of dollars a year.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/11/in-some-states-you-can-now-plug-solar-panels-into-your-wall/
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Sixteen years after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig unleashed more than 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, life in the deep sea has yet to recover. Read more on E360 →
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/deepwater-horizon-deep-sea-recovery
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