Tom Cruise, whose 1986 film Top Gun caused recruitment for Navy pilots to surge, was awarded the force’s highest civilian honor on Dec. 17 after becoming the 36th Honorary Naval Aviator in 2020.
Calcification rates of reef-building corals have decreased across the Indo-Pacific since 1900 due to recent marine heatwaves, according to analyses of coral core samples. Diatom skeletons largely ...