No one knows exactly how many Hamas fighters are waiting for the IDF inside Gaza City. Numbers are thrown around, anywhere from 3,000 to 12,000. For Hamas, the city is a historic symbol of resistance. “This is Hamas’s Masada, with all the…
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Does Smoking Cause Genetic Mutations In Your Children?
A man sits outside and holds a slim menthol cigarette between his fingers. Close-up with focus on the cigarette.
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The short answer to the question is yes. The longer, more interesting answer is that until recently, the factors that shape the…
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A special tribute, lessons from sitting shiva
A special tribute, lessons from sitting shiva | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Health & Wellness/Mental HealthJudaism’s mourning rituals parallel the psychological pathway to healing and help enable us to transition through the process of…
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Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.
The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and…
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Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space
For one thing, the systems he imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly bombarded by radiation, and “obsolescence would be a problem” because making repairs or upgrades would be…
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Egypt denies threats of military escalation in Sinai
Egypt denies threats of military escalation in Sinai | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle EastAfter reports from Al-Akhbar about “instructions for a plan to deal with any emergency,” the Egyptian State Information Service said that it is…
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Say Hello to the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
Does alcohol enhance one’s foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping? And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies? These and other unusual research questions were honored tonight in a…
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Donald Trump seeks to reclaim Bagram Base from Taliban
Donald Trump seeks to reclaim Bagram Base from Taliban | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle EastTrump has cited Bagram’s proximity to China as one of the main motivations behind this proposed move, stating that the location is “about an…
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Israelis reach quantum breakthrough using diamond tech
Israelis reach quantum breakthrough using diamond tech | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/ScienceIsraeli and German scientists announced the development of a method to capture nearly all the light emitted by microscopic defects in diamonds – an…
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