(...). Gate 36, on the border between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, has become a kind of lucky charm for hundreds of migrants seeking a new life in the USA. “We are like Rocky Balboa, the boxer in the movie, carrying a pain all day long,” one Venezuelan told EL PAÍS, after a two-month journey across nearly 10 countries. “I don’t know what will happen, but I’m sure I’ll be better off there than in my country.”
(...) Communication satellites, according to Morgan Stanley, are generating about $70 billion dollars a year, while observation satellites are pulling in nearly $10 billion. (...). Control of the Earth’s low orbit has sparked a race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, with the SpaceX owner aiming to extend his Starlink network to 42,000 satellites and the Amazon chief planning to provide Wi-Fi coverage through 3,236 satellites.
Elsewhere, the world of science has been rocked by another scandal after a Spanish university researcher and a group of colleagues were linked to a large-scale scheme to generate fraudulent scientific studies. A whistleblower claimed that an Indian scientist named Gunasekaran Manogaran was the mastermind of the scam, allegedly involving selling authorship of fake studies to researchers. (...) “We had absolutely no idea what this man was doing,” said González.
(...) According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, “2023 is already shaping up to be the hottest year ever for the planet” (...). This “is not a rare or isolated case,” said the director of the agency, but “part of a generalized warming pattern of the climate” due to human activity.
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