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Black Rain over Iran

“Black Rain” Over Iran: What Is It, What Is In It, and Is It Dangerous?

On the morning of March 8, residents of Tehran woke to something that looked like ordinary rain until it landed. It was black. Oily. It coated cars, windows, and clothes with a dark, sooty residue. It stung the eyes and irritated the throat. Within hours, Iran’s Red Crescent Society had issued an emergency warning: stay

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Iran School Strike

175 Children Killed in Iran School Strike: Pentagon Says US May Be at Fault

It was a Monday morning in Minab, a small town in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province. The Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school — a two-storey building painted with pink flowers and green leaves — was full of children aged six to twelve when the war began. Parents received panicked phone calls and rushed to collect their

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New Human Species

Meet Homo juluensis: The New Human Species Just Discovered!

For most of the twentieth century, human evolution was taught as a tidy story — a single ancestral line stretching from ape-like ancestors in Africa to modern Homo sapiens. That story has been unravelling for decades. Ancient DNA from a Siberian cave revealed the Denisovans in 2010. The “Dragon Man” skull from Harbin introduced Homo

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Iran's New Supreme Leader — Mojtaba Khamenei

Iran Has a New Supreme Leader — Who Is Mojtaba Khamenei and What Does He Want?

For thirty-seven years, one man held absolute power in the Islamic Republic of Iran. On February 28, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the opening airstrikes of Operation Epic Fury — the US-Israel campaign launched against Iran. His death left a power vacuum at the top of one of the most consequential governments in the

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