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Iran-Pakistan
Pakistan Strikes Iranian Territory
Following a similar attack from Iran into its territory on Tuesday, Pakistan launched a remote strike into Iran this morning. Iranian authorities reported the Pakistani attack killed nine people. Mirroring earlier messaging from Iranian authorities regarding the prior strike that it “fully respects” the “sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Iran, Pakistani authorities claim to be responding to credible intelligence of terrorist activity in the Iranian city of Saravan. Pakistan says the attack utilizing drones, rockets, and long-range missiles targeted the Balochistan Liberation Army and the Balochistan Liberation Front, two groups fighting for greater autonomy for Pakistan’s remote province of Balochistan, which borders Iran. With Pakistan’s ambassador to Iran already recalled after the Tuesday attack, Iran summoned the Pakistani chargé d’affaires to account for the attack.
This map depicts the locations of the recent cross-border strikes between Iran and Pakistan. Click on the map to learn more.
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Yemen
US Strikes Against Houthis
The US military has fired another wave of missile strikes against Houthi-controlled sites, marking the fourth time in a week it has directly targeted the group in Yemen. The Houthis are an Iran-backed militant group bombarding commercial vessels and US military ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. This has led to costly rerouting for shipping companies. The Houthis state this is in retaliation for the Israeli military campaign in Gaza. In this latest strike, the US military said it was targeting 14 Houthi missile launchers used to attack shipping lanes, after a drone launched from areas controlled by the Houthis hit a US-owned vessel in the Gulf of Aden. The US has designated the Houthi rebel group as a terrorist organization, a new designation which will take effect in 30 days to allow time to carve out robust humanitarian exceptions, so the measures do not affect the people of Yemen. More than 75% of Yemenis depend on aid to live, amid a severe economic crisis caused by years of war between the Houthis and the Yemeni government and other factions, the collapse of the currency, and imposed sanctions.
This map depicts the dozens of sites the US targeted with airstrikes in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: iNews
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United States
Mapping Mammoth Travels
Scientists have written a biography of a female woolly mammoth that lived 14,000 years ago by analyzing the chemical composition of her tusk. The study in the journal Science Advances details how the animal, nicknamed Elma, was born in what is now the Yukon and stayed close to her birthplace a decade before moving hundreds of miles west into central Alaska. She remained there until she reached about 20, when she was most likely taken down by hunters. Scientists are beginning to unravel such travel stories by looking at the layers of minerals that accumulated each day on the outside of the tusks of mammoths and mastodons. As researchers study more tusks, they hope to answer some of the biggest questions about how the mammals thrived for hundreds of thousands of years. They are also gathering information pointing to how mammoths and mastodons became extinct at the end of the Ice Age.
This map depicts the travel path of a female woolly mammoth as revealed by the minerals accumulated in her tusks, in addition to areas frequented by other mammoths in the study. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: The development of the modern seismograph was largely due to studies conducted in what earthquake-prone country?
A: Japan
Seismic waves are the vibrations from earthquakes that travel through the earth. They are recorded on instruments called seismographs, which follow a zigzag trace that shows the varying amplitude of ground oscillations. John Milne was the English seismologist and geologist who invented the first modern seismograph and promoted the building of seismological stations. In 1880, Sir James Alfred Ewing, Thomas Gray, and John Milne—all British scientists working in Japan—began to study earthquakes. These men were teaching at the Imperial College of Tokyo (now called the University of Tokyo) and were foreign advisors to the government during the Meiji period, an era of industrialization and modernization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They founded the Seismological Society of Japan, the first institution of its kind globally. The founding of the institution followed a heavy earthquake in Yokohama, and it funded the invention of seismographs in order to detect and measure the strength of earthquakes.
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