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26 August 2015

From George Washington to Barack Obama, US presidents have been delivering the State of the Union address for the last 225 years. Mining nearly 2 million words, researchers at Columbia University trace a remarkable stability amid the discourse streams and identify a significant historical shift in the American notion of governance.

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Researchers in Africa are hunting for a different kind of treasure. This treasure comes in the form of archived weather records tucked away in remote meteorological offices, and they just may foretell the future of the African continent. African nations have joined the quest to digitize these old records and gather new data to improve local climate modeling.

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