Placeholder while loading article actions You are reading an excerpt from Today’s WorldView newsletter. Subscribe to get the restincluding news from around the world, interesting insights and must-know opinions delivered to your inbox every weekday. Few experts are ready to predict how or when the war in Ukraine will end. But many foresee a protracted … Read more
Roughly thirty years after the Cold War ended, tensions between the U.S. and Russia are escalating after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than a month ago. In light of that, here are five movies about the Cold War that were made while it was ongoing and capture some of the spirit of that era — … Read more
Journal Reference: Alvaro A. Ordonez, C. Korin Bullen, Andres F. Villabona-Rueda, Elizabeth A. Thompson, Mitchell L. Turner, Vanessa F. Merino, Yu Yan, John Kim, Stephanie L. Davis, Oliver Komm, Jonathan D. Powell, Franco R. D’Alessio, Robert H. Yolken, Sanjay K. Jain, Lorraine Jones-Brando. Sulforaphane exhibits antiviral activity against pandemic SARS-CoV-2 and seasonal HCoV-OC43 coronaviruses in … Read more
A cold case investigative book that claimed to have solved the question of who betrayed Jewish teenage columnist Anne Frank has been withdrawn by its Dutch publisher after being discredited by a group of historians. The findings of The Betrayal Of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation have been described as “a flimsy house of … Read more
The entertainment industry is turning its back on Russia. Hollywood studios, Netflix Inc., big-ticket rock bands and sporting events are pausing or pulling their business out of Russia in response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The moves are largely symbolic—Russia isn’t among the largest markets for either live entertainment or movies—but they … Read more
To say it leniently, the Cold War was among the most turbulent periods in American history. This volatile post-World War II period, however, proved to be a great source of cinematic treasure. The following is a list of the best Cold War Spy movies: 1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold Cover Poster … Read more
Journal Reference: Eva M Wolf, Emmanuel Gaquerel, Mathias Scharmann, Levi Yant, Marcus A Koch. Evolutionary footprints of a cold relic in a rapidly warming world. eLife, 2021; 10 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.71572 “With the challenges of increasing global warming, developing a basic understanding of how plants adapted to severe environmental change is increasingly urgent,” stresses Prof. Koch, … Read more
The nutritionist and triathlete talks about the alienation of the mountaineer in the most extreme feats: isotonic sport gel, freeze-dried food and recovery drink Luca Castaldini December 31st – Milano When in 2017 Hervè Barmasse climbed his first 8000m peak (the Shisha Pangma) in the record time of 13 hours, on his return he explained … Read more