What we know – and don’t know – about the US-Ukraine minerals dealpublished at 19:58 Greenwich Mean Time 25 February
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As we’ve just reported, Ukraine and the US are expected to reach an agreement on a…
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Ukrainian official says terms of minerals deal reached with US
What we know – and don’t know – about the US-Ukraine minerals dealpublished at 19:58 Greenwich Mean Time 25 February
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The Green Anesthesia Initiative: A New Path to Sustainable Health Care
How can greener anesthesia help both patients and the environment? This is what a recent study published in The Lancer Planetary Health hopes to address as a team of researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School investigated a multitude of…
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Hinting at answer to a chicken-or-egg question on evolution — Harvard Gazette
For biochemists, it’s the which-came-first question: oxygen production by photosynthesis or oxygen consumption by aerobic metabolism?
In photosynthesis, algae and plants take in sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into fuel for growth, releasing oxygen as a byproduct. Animals, on the…
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Hear patients with brain implants describe what it feels like
The third episode of The Deep End finds Jon in the operating room as he gets electrodes implanted in his brain. You’ll hear how Jon and other volunteers feel in the hours, days and weeks after their surgery, including an itch to go to the library, an urge to walk around the block and…
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Three years on, Ukraine’s extinction nightmare has returned
“Putin’s mistake was that he prepared for a parade not a war” a senior Ukrainian official recalled, speaking on condition of anonymity. “He didn’t think Ukraine would fight. He thought they would be welcomed with speeches and flowers.”
On 29 March…
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Trump: Ukraine minerals deal ‘very close’
President Donald Trump said Monday that he’s close to securing a minerals-for-aid deal with Ukraine and that the war-torn country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, may come to the White House this week or next for an official signing….
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Ukraine war: Amid shifting alliances, General Assembly passes resolution condemning Russia’s aggression
The resolution tabled by the United States, which omitted mention of Russian aggression, only passed after a majority of Member States voted to add EU-led amendments which led to the US abstaining on it own motion and voting against the Ukrainian…
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The Adventures of a Ukrainian Intelligence Officer
On September 26, 2022, seismic-monitoring stations in northern Europe picked up signals that resembled small earthquakes—rumblings below the surface of the Baltic Sea detected as far as a thousand miles away. Soon after, operators in charge of…
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Central Europe’s new hop-on hop-off train
Getty ImagesThe Baltic Express bursts out of the Czech capital on a crisp winter morning. As the sky lightens, medieval Prague is streamed through the train’s windows like a Netflix trailer. From armchair seats in private compartments, a city of…
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History of Ukrainian independence movements through the ages
Editor’s note: This story was originally published on February 24, 2022.
Ukraine has been invaded by Russia in a pre-dawn attack. Up to 190,000 Russian troops were positioned near Ukraine’s borders, swelling from 100,000 at the end of January
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