The International Atomic Energy Agency uses a sophisticated toolkit to monitor nuclear facilities, including surveillance cameras, tamper-revealing seals, and real-time radiation monitors. #Iran's decision to remove these devices leaves the international community in the dark.
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How the world’s nuclear watchdog monitors facilities around the world – and what it means that Iran kicked it out
A nuclear engineer explains how the International Atomic Energy Agency monitors peaceful nuclear programs, and why it’s worrisome that Iran stopp...
Tequila's roots might stretch from Mexico across the Pacific, according to an anthropologist. Filipino sailors and migrants may have shared coconut distilling techniques:
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Filipino sailors dock in Mexico … and help invent tequila?
Crew aboard Spanish trading ships departing from Manila may have introduced techniques for distilling coconut sap – helping to shape what would b...
Heart cancer is extremely rare, occurring in just 3 out of 10,000 people (in comparison, 1 in 20 women are expected to develop breast cancer), a biologist explains:
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Why is heart cancer so rare? A biologist explains
Studying why heart cells are less likely to become cancerous can provide clues to improving heart regeneration and treatments for heart disease.
With more countries sending spacecraft and people into orbit, experts in space strategy, policy ethics and law have celebrated the democratization of space: the hope that space is now more accessible for diverse participants.
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‘Democratizing space’ is more than just adding new players – it comes with questions around sustainability and sovereignty
As more countries look to space, experts argue that it’s worth asking why we want to go at all, and who should lead the charge.
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Microbes called thermophiles thrive in boiling temperatures near seafloor volcanoes without sunlight or oxygen. Studying these organisms gives insight into early Earth habitats and informs the search for life on icy moons in our solar system.
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Microbes in deep-sea volcanoes can help scientists learn about early life on Earth, or even life beyond our planet
Microbes hidden deep in ocean volcanoes could resemble life on other planets or moons.
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“Comparing ICE to the Gestapo is less a historical judgment than a reflection of modern anxiety – a fear that the U.S. is veering toward authoritarianism reminiscent of 1930s Germany.” - Holocaust Historian Daniel H. Magilow, University of Tennessee
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Comparing ICE to the Gestapo reveals people’s fears for the US – a Holocaust scholar explains why Nazi analogies remain common, yet risky
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is among the politicians who have recently compared the immigration agency ICE to the Gestapo. Such analogies risk oversimp...
Untreated mood and anxiety disorders in new mothers cost an estimated $32,000 per mother. Peer support offers an effective, culturally-sensitive solution to address this issue, according to clinical psychologists.
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How mothers supporting mothers can help fill the health care worker shortage gap and other barriers to care
Peer support is one way to help new mothers access the care they need.
Amid fragile ceasefire, the violence in southern Syria brings Druze communities’ complex cross-border ties to the fore. A historian of the middle east explains:
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Amid fragile ceasefire, violence in southern Syria brings Druze communities’ complex cross-border ties to the fore
Today, most of the Druze community is split between three countries: Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
Dogs may have a more profound impact on reducing human stress levels than previously thought. They regulate both major stress pathways in the brain, keeping us in a healthy "sweet spot" for handling stress, according to researchers.
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Dogs are helping people regulate stress even more than expected, research shows
A new study finds that dogs’ mitigation of human stress is more biologically complex than scientists previously understood.
How the QAnon movement entered mainstream politics – and why the silence on Epstein files matters
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How the QAnon movement entered mainstream politics – and why the silence on Epstein files matters
The foundational belief of many of the QAnon followers is that Donald Trump is the heroic figure fighting the elite pedophile ring.