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Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck on sticking the landing for final ‘The Expanse’ novel, ‘Leviathan Falls’ (exclusive)

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The end of a beloved novel series is always a melancholy occasion, and so it is with the ninth and final entry for authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck’s (under the pen name James S.A. Corey) multi-layered military space opera, “The Expanse.”  After ten years of intense research, plot construction, worldbuilding, and character development, the … Read more

India defuses its population bomb: Fertility falls to two children per woman | Science

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Back in the 1960s, India faced an exploding population, with a fertility rate of nearly six children per woman. When famine struck, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson initially refused to deliver food aid, citing the country’s high birth rate. In response, India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi dramatically expanded the first national family planning program in … Read more