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Iran Denies Dropping Its Preconditions During UN Talks With Trump Envoys We once again have differing versions of a key meeting in the aftermath of a significant and rare US and Iranian diplomatic encounter. The Tuesday 3-hour meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York was headed by Tehran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, and on the other side by Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. The US side had called the talks "very productive" - with the suggestion that the Iranians were in the mood to compromise for...

The Strange Reason Scientists Still Need Pre-1945 Steel The world's most sensitive radiation detectors sometimes rely on low background steel produced before the first atomic bomb test in July 1945, according to a new report from SpaceDaily. Steel manufactured before the nuclear age lacks the tiny traces of radioactive fallout that atmospheric weapons testing later introduced into the environment, making it valuable for experiments searching for extraordinarily rare particles and faint radiation signals. The report says that this gave rise to the popular story that scientists depend on steel salvaged from pre...