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BBC
Iranians mark their New Year with anger, fear, and defiance: Cleaning her home for the festival, one Iranian told us: "Perhaps this dark night will finally give way to dawn."
Meta and YouTube found liable in landmark social media addiction trial: A woman has been awarded $6m in a verdict that could have implications for hundreds of other cases in the US.
British forces preparing to board Russian shadow fleet ships in UK waters: The move will "starve Putin's war machine", Starmer says as he arrives in Finland for a military summit.
Calls for urgent inquiry into high street child abuse claims: Political leaders call for an urgent investigation into alleged child sexual exploitation after a BBC report.

CBC
Top court hearings on Quebec secularism law expose national divide over notwithstanding clause:

19-year-old Quebecer shot and killed in Dominican Republic while on vacation with brother:

The Dominican Republic national police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old Canadian who was shot and killed early in the morning March 23, in the province of Puerto Plata while on vacation.

NHL players, loved ones pay tribute to former Ontario junior who died of cancer at 25 :

Jacob Winterton, a former player with the Ontario Hockey League and the University of Guelph's Gryphons, has died of cancer at 25. His family, friends and the hockey community have paid tribute to him, with younger brother Ryan Winterton of the NHL's Seattle Kraken saying, "I'll miss your voice, your advice, and the way you made everything feel a little less heavy."

New York Times Science
Humans Had Dogs Before They Had Farming, Ancient DNA Confirms: New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another.

Ancient Grapes Reveal Long History of Modern Wines: Genetic material preserved in ancient grape seeds reveals when, and how, humans meddled with wine grapes.

NASA Sets Out New Plans and Timelines for Moon Base and Nuclear Mars Mission: The agency’s leader said new plans and timelines for the coming decade aim to create a permanent foothold by humans on another world and inspire Americans.

We’ve Been Underestimating Flying Foxes: Australia used to incinerate the large fruit bats, but research suggests they bring hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits to the country’s economy.

Wicked Stepmother No Longer, a Female Pharoah Gets a Reputational Makeover: A reassessment of damaged 3,500-year-old statuary adds to evidence that Queen Hatshepsut wasn’t the villain that scholars long took her to be.


Visualizing Science

The oldest known human art is also the oldest known human attempt to record Nature.  This painting is 34,000 years old and was found in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, which is the subject of Werner Herzog’s film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog used a 3D camera to capture how the shapes of the walls were incorporated into the paintings.

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