The global energy system has entered a period of profound structural transformation. As the escalating war in the Middle East continues to disrupt traditional energy supply routes, and the global geoeconomic fragmentation is reshaping trade patterns, a new Eurasian…
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Amid vaccine policy whiplash, here’s how a pediatrician talks to families
Molly O’Shea has been practicing pediatrics for 33 years. “I’ve seen it all,” she says. Her career spans the introduction of numerous vaccines, a decline in infectious diseases — and a troubling rise in vaccine hesitancy.
When, in January, the Trump administration slashed…
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Central Bank Sanctions Return to the CJEU – EJIL: Talk!
A Primer on the Russian Central Bank’s Legal Challenge to the Permanent Freezing of its Assets
On March 3, 2026, the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) announced that it has recently filed an action for annulment under Article 263 TFEU challenging Council Regulation (EU) 2025/2600 before the General…
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The Iran War Is Exposing This Major Shift of the 21st Century — Russia in Global Affairs
The US-Israeli war against Iran is forcing a new look at the nature and limits of alliances in the 21st century.
In the second half of the 20th century, international politics rested on a relatively simple logic. The world was divided into blocs. Strong powers…
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Ultra-cool step toward transformative technologies — Harvard Gazette
For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build superconductors that operate at room temperature and transmit electricity with no loss.
Now, in a paper recently published in Nature, a team of Harvard physicists has…
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Energy Depletion Dysregulates Antitumor Immunity
Cancer dysregulates the immune response to evade cell death and progress throughout the body. As tumors become established, they uptake nutrients and generate a low-oxygen environment, which limits nutrients in the tissue for other cells. Consequently, the…
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Known Cancer Target Helps Fight Influenza
Drugs and different treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a specific disease can be repurposed for other pathologies. The application of applying FDA-approved drugs to other diseases has become common for various reasons…
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International Hierarchy Expert Survey (Wave V) is Underway — Russia in Global Affairs
Will It Get Worse? Expert Perception of Global Transformation
Ivan A. Safranchuk, Alexander D. Nesmashnyi, Evgenia S. Komarova
IR experts’ perception of the current global transformation has a contradiction:…
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Reducing Flu Risk by Taking Aim at Two Proteins
When vaccines are designed, scientists have aimed to prevent the virus from spreading to others, or stop it from producing more flu particles in an infected person. But now researchers think a vaccine could do both. In a new strategy, scientists looked at…
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What the Iran Crisis Reveals about BRICS — Russia in Global Affairs
At the BRICS summit in South Africa in the summer of 2023, the group’s five member states made a bold decision: they invited five new countries to join. The move was greeted with considerable skepticism. Some observers questioned the selection process, noting that…
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