Guardian Unlimited: Pro-Israel activists used such hardball tactics during a British faculty union’s debate last month over a proposed boycott of Israeli academics that the effort to defeat the proposal failed, according to an analysis in today’s Guardian. Members of the British union were bombarded with e-mail messages with subject lines like “Subject: Jew Hater!” and bearing obscenity-laden accusations of anti-Semitism for even discussing the proposal, the analysis says.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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