In the pursuit of advanced extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for high-NA patterning, metal oxide resists (MORs) offer significant promise but face challenges like critical dimension (CD) variation due to atmospheric interactions. Presented at SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning 2025 by...
The US-Israel war on Iran has opened Pandora’s box, and its impacts are likely to be felt for a long time. As the conflict unfolds, however, there is a growing divergence between US and Israeli aims regarding what they define...
An army-aligned Sudanese governor accused Ethiopia on Wednesday of having backed an offensive on the south, a day after Sudan's paramilitary forces said they had seized control of the border town of Kurmuk. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces...
An international deal to protect and sustainably use the ocean was hailed as “a triumph for multilateralism” and “a win for humanity” when it came into force on 17 January. But the very rules-based international order on...
The Moqattam Misdemeanor Court acquitted a defendant on charges of sexual harassment on Tuesday, shutting the door on the legal track pursued by Mariam Shawky after she published footage of the incident to document the harassment, prompting a viral response...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) displaced Palestinian families from 11 homes in the east Jerusalem district of Silwan, south of the Aqsa Mosque, on Wednesday. According to local sources, Israeli police forces and settlers wearing orange jackets stormed the...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Settler attacks are escalating in Wad al-Watawat in the town of Surif, north of al-Khalil, where residents face a recurring pattern of arson and nightly intimidation, within a broader context of field attacks documented by human rights reports as...
A Wednesday report from NBC News is raising concerns that President Donald Trump may be getting a rose-colored view of the war he started with Iran. According to NBC News, US military officials show Trump a daily two-minute video montage of operations conducted in the...
GAZA, (PIC) Nikolay Mladenov, the High Representative for Gaza at the Peace Council, described conditions in the Gaza Strip as “extremely dire,” revealing that a comprehensive framework for disarmament and the reintegration of armed groups is currently under discussion with relevant...
Iran has rejected the Donald Trump administration's 15-point plan aimed at pausing the war in the country , which has spread across the Middle East, calling it "unreasonable" and maintaining that it would end the war on...
The UN Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) called on Libyan authorities on Wednesday to release political activist Al-Mahdi Abdulati, saying he was arrested and detained last week. Abdulati was detained on 18 March in the port city of Misrata, UNSMIL...
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . I have little to say about the late Robert Mueller as a person, not just because I didn’t know him but because I count myself among those who believed, then...
At 4:00 a. m. on September 20, 1977, the sky over Petrozavodsk, Karelia, was illuminated by a phenomenon that defied the physics textbooks of the era. Witnesses described a massive glowing "jellyfish” hovering above the city, casting thin rays of...
German carmaker Volkswagen is in talks with Israel's state-owned Rafael Advanced Defence Systems to shift production at one of its factories towards missile defence systems, according to a report by The Financial Times on...
The UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday condemned Iran's "egregious attacks" on its Gulf neighbours and demanded full "reparation" for all victims of its strikes. The 47-member council backed a resolution brought by the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...
The fall of the Assad regim e has seen Syria make some of the biggest gains in political rights, in Freedom House's ' Freedom of the World ' annual report, although some challenges remain. Syria increased freedoms by...
- - - - Photo by Phil Hearing on Unsplash Our country stands on the brink of…well, something. And something bad. I won’t pretend to know precisely just how bad, but I know it won’t be mild. What...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . On Monday , President Donald Trump ’s Department of the Interior announced that it will refund almost $1 billion to a...
Minnesota prosecutors escalated their fight with the Trump administration over Operation Metro Surge on Tuesday, filing a lawsuit seeking to force the federal government to turn over evidence in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens and...
Markwayne Mullin was sworn in as Homeland Security Secretary on Tuesday, replacing Kristi Noem, who left her post after allegations of misusing government funds and having an extramarital affair with her advisor Corey Lewandowski. The previous day, he was...
Iraqi armed factions that are aligned with Iran have expanded their daily attacks on military sites and what they say are US interests in Iraq and the region to include Syrian territory. This marks the first such expansion...
Senior researcher Alberto Fittarelli spoke with the New York Times about the double threat of AI-produced disinformation. “Verifying everything is incredibly exhausting, and not everyone can afford doing it,” Fittarelli says. In the fall, researchers at the...
The assassination of the Congo’s first prime minister has been shrouded in mystery – but the impending trial of a Belgian diplomat may provide answers - Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here - Patrice Lumumba...
An Israeli drone strike has killed two Palestinians and wounded at least four others in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp , medics said, in the latest Israeli breach of a ceasefire for the occupied territory. The strike hit early...
An air strike on a military base in Iraq's Anbar province has killed seven fighters and wounded 13, in what Baghdad said was "a heinous crime" and a serious violation of international law, amid a spike in...
By Wyatt REED and Max BLUMENTHAL Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Trump White House plagiarized its justification for attacking Iran from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the main DC outfit promoting...
Most Americans believe the recent US war on Iran has gone too far, and many are worried about affording gasoline, according to a new AP-NORC poll. As the war launched by the US and Israel continues in its fourth...
Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civilians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened In the pistachio green Toyota Land...
Some post-silicon bugs are unavoidable, but we’re getting better at catching them before we ship. Here we look at a method based on a bare-metal exerciser to stress-test the MMU. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst,...
- - - - Over the years, Coleman Hughes and I have had several discussions and debates on a wide range of topics. Since October 7, Hughes has become one of the country’s most stalwart and vocal defenders of...
Israel continued to launch attacks on southern Lebanese towns as well as the capital, Beirut , on Wednesday, amid fears that the Israeli military would annex Lebanese territory up to the Litani River . Lebanon's state media reported that...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned the Israeli Knesset’s initial approval of a bill legislating the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners as a “serious act of state terrorism.” In a statement on Wednesday, Hamas underscored that this Knesset’s approval of the...
A Thai oil tanker has safely passed through the Strait of Hormuz following diplomatic coordination between Thailand and Iran, and was not required to pay to escape the blockade, a Thai official and the oil major that owns...
TEHRAN, (PIC) The US-Israeli war on Iran entered its 26th day on Wednesday marked by intensifying military exchanges and a widening regional spillover even as tentative signs of diplomacy emerge amid clear differences between Washington and Tehran over the terms of...
By Andrew P. NAPOLITANO Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The government is threatening to change the FCC’s equal-time rule and even put broadcast giants out of business because they may paint the war...
The details about an alleged Iranian attempt to attack the U.S.-UK military base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia last week are as mysterious as the secretive base itself. Although the Iranian government has denied attacking Diego Garcia,...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continue escalating their targeting of freed Palestinian prisoners released under recent exchange deals, through repeated arrest campaigns, field interrogations, and ongoing questioning, in what appears to be a sustained policy of post-release persecution. The Palestinian Prisoners...
Iran has said "non-hostile vessels" can transit the Strait of Hormuz if they meet safety and security regulations in coordination with the relevant authorities, according to a statement released to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). "Non-hostile vessels...may, provided that...
Iran on Wednesday continued to downplay rumours of talks with the US to wind down the war in the Gulf, claiming that President Donald Trump's administration is "negotiating with itself" following reports of a Washington-drafted ceasefire...
The resignation of a senior US counterterrorism official shows internal dissent within the US establishment over the Iran War and exposes Zionist influence over Trump. Widespread Dissent in the US Administration Dissent inside a country’s administration occurs during every war....
The Israeli military announced on Wednesday it had struck two naval cruise missile production facilities operating under Iran's Ministry of Defence in Tehran. "In recent days, the Israeli air force, acting on [Israeli military] intelligence, struck two key naval...
Ugandan opposition leader Kyagulanyi Ssentamu said he fled to the United States to save his life but eventually he would return home to face President Yoweri Museveni ’s government. Speaking to the Mail & Guardian from Washington DC,...
Finland is moving to lift its long-standing legal ban on hosting nuclear weapons within Finnish territory. On NATO’s sensitive frontier with Russia, this is a step in the wrong direction. The U.S. should be the first country to object to this...
Trump corners himself into a tiny space where he looks even more stupid and incompetent than ever. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Trump’s declaration on his own social media platform that he...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,265 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Wednesday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
A new strike in western Iraq killed seven security personnel, the defence ministry said Wednesday, a day after a deadly attack on the same base targeted the former paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi. Iraq has been unwillingly pulled into...
British officials had at least five meetings with a former Iranian army Colonel who sought to overthrow the regime in Tehran and promote a “military government”, declassified files show. The Colonel, Nasrullah Tavakoli, said in 1991 that he had been...
China’s network of ultra-high-voltage (UHV) transmission lines is often described as a pillar of the country’s clean-energy transition. With relatively low losses, it can move power thousands of kilometres, from renewable energy megabases in the country’s north and west, to...
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