If there were an award for Most Unfulfilled Personal Wish of the Year, Donald Trump would be the runaway winner. His desire to receive the Nobel Peace Prize has been so overt – and his actions so clearly aligned with that goal – that the disappointment is…
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Want to speed brain research? It’s all in how you look at it. — Harvard Gazette
To get a better look at brains, Harvard researchers are making microscopes work more like human eyes.
Until recently, the quest to build high-resolution maps of brains — otherwise known as “connectomes” — was stymied by the slow pace and cost of powerful electron microscopes capable…
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The Long 20th Century Is Over. A New World Is Being Built Through Self-Determination — Russia in Global Affairs
Two quotes, separated by four years, show how profoundly global politics has shifted.
The first reads: “The United States of America shall undertake to prevent further eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and deny accession to the Alliance…
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Trump Finished Off the Globalist Illusion in 2025 — Russia in Global Affairs
If there was a single theme tying American foreign policy together in 2025, it would be a decisive shift away from the rhetoric of ‘global leadership’ toward an unapologetic assertion of privilege within its own geopolitical neighborhood. Donald Trump is ending…
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Might or Right? The Prospect of an ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Security Council Veto – EJIL: Talk!
The United Nations Security Council (“SC”) veto has once again become a focal point of debate. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and paralysis over the situation in Gaza have revived a familiar concern: the SC’s primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security appears…
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The Allegations of Genocide Case and Russia’s Judge Ad Hoc – EJIL: Talk!
The Allegations of Genocide case has entered a new phase. On 5 December 2025, the International Court of Justice (Court) issued an order on Russia’s counter-claims. By eleven votes to four, it found them admissible as such and forming part of the current proceedings. Naturally, the decision on…
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A tiny limpet reveals big secrets — Harvard Gazette
In the depths of the central Pacific Ocean, nearly 2,400 meters below the surface, scientists found a new species of deep-sea limpet clinging to a sunken log.
The discovery represents a significant find in the study of the deep ocean, the largest ecosystem on the planet but one that is…
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‘It just feels good when you solve the hard problems’ — Harvard Gazette
At crunch time at the end of fall semester, Easton Singer ’26 had many things piled on his plate: an orchestra performance, final exams and projects, a senior thesis, and applications for graduate school. Yet he put all that aside to spend a precious Saturday in the middle of reading period…
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Stopping the next pandemic — Harvard Gazette
It began with some intriguing scientific discoveries.
A team of researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard began to suspect nearly two decades ago that so-called “emerging diseases” such as Ebola and Lassa virus were not quite what they seemed. Rather than being newly evolved…
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Prosecuting Members of Russian Mercenary Groups for War Crimes, a Remedy for Victims? – EJIL: Talk!
‘Remedy is rare’ for the victims of atrocity crimes and human rights violations committed by contemporary mercenaries. Indeed, there have been only a few prosecutions of mercenaries fighting in Ukraine since 2014 and those have been specifically for the crimes of mercenarism or for engaging…
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