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Leon Cooper Dies at 94; Nobelist Unlocked Secrets of Superconductivity

Leon N. Cooper, a Nobel-winning physicist who helped unlock the secret of how some materials can convey electricity without resistance, a phenomenon called superconductivity, and who did pioneering work in understanding how memory and the brain work, died on Wednesday at his home in Providence, R.I. He was 94. His …

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The ‘Greenest Governor’ Fights to Save a Landmark Climate Law

Long before the League of Conservation Voters embraced him as the “greenest governor” in America, Jay Inslee of Washington had written a book about climate change that called for a clean-energy revolution that would be the equivalent of the Apollo space program in commitment and innovation. But Mr. Inslee’s visions …

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