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Federal Cabinet approves climate, agriculture emergency response – RADIO PAKISTAN
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10 Fastest Dog Breeds in the World: Salukis, Collies, and More
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Surprisingly fast for their reputation as couch potatoes, Standard Poodles can reach speeds of around 30 mph (48 km/h). Originally bred as water retrievers, their athletic build and high stamina also make them excellent for agility training and exercises.
These fastest dog breeds show how centuries of breeding shaped animals built for speed, agility, and endurance. While many are now great family pets, they still thrive with active owners, regular exercise, and balanced diets to keep their athletic edge.
We created this article in conjunction with AI technology, then made sure it was fact-checked and edited by a HowStuffWorks editor.
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Precision nutrition offers new pathways to slow biological aging
Diet doesn’t just fuel the body, it sends molecular signals that can slow down or speed up biological aging, according to a new perspective in npj Aging (Nature Portfolio). The authors explain that biological age, a measure of functional health, can diverge sharply from chronological age and that targeted nutritional and lifestyle choices can bend the trajectory toward healthier aging.
Nutrition is one of the strongest levers we have to influence the rate of biological aging and resilience against chronic disease. Our goal is to move from ‘one-size-fits-all’ advice to targeted dietary strategies that measurably shift biological age.”
Professor Carsten Carlberg, University of Eastern Finland
Bending the aging curve
Summing up recent research, the authors propose that lifestyle choices like diet, physical activity, sleep and social engagement can bend the aging curve – enabling optimal aging. People aging optimally maintain a biological age younger than their chronological age, while unhealthy habits accelerate aging and heighten disease risk.
Food contains thousands of bioactive compounds that act as molecular signals and, according to the authors, could be specifically harnessed to modulate biological age. However, there is still a vast amount of “Nutrition Dark Matter” – more than 139,000 compounds that remain largely uncharacterized but may regulate key aging pathways.
Biological age can be tracked using aging clocks – computational biomarker models based on epigenetic, proteomic or microbiome data. The article compares the applicability of different aging clocks in healthy aging research. For example, risk-predictive clocks like GrimAge can help identify and monitor interventions to slow aging.
Whole diets still win – the gut microbiome is the target
Research has shown that long-term adherence to plant-rich healthy eating patterns such as the Mediterranean diet and the AHEI and DASH diets can up to double the odds of aging healthily, preserving cognitive, physical and mental function into older age.
The article highlights the gut microbiome as a central target of dietary interventions to slow down aging. Diet strongly shapes the gut microbiome, which in turn modulates inflammation, circadian rhythms and immune resilience, offering multiple levers for precision nutrition interventions.
“Think of this as precision geroprevention,” adds Carlberg. “With validated biomarkers and pragmatic policies, we can guide everyday food choices that keep biological age below chronological age for longer.”
Call to action for healthy aging
The authors point out that with aging populations worldwide, preventive approaches are urgent. To translate the recent advances in research and technology into meaningful change, they call for action in several areas. These include:
- Validation and standardization of aging biomarkers,
- Mapping the food-derived bioactive compounds and their targets to uncover new dietary modulators, and
- Building cross-sector partnerships to bring precision nutrition from the lab into clinics, communities and public health policies.
The article also highlights the work of the Biomarkers of Aging Consortium and the EIT Food Healthy aging Think & Do Tank in advancing healthy aging research and its translation towards clinical practice.
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University of Eastern Finland (UEF Viestintä)
Journal reference:
Carlberg, C., et al. (2025). Modulating biological aging with food-derived signals: a systems and precision nutrition perspective. npj Aging. doi.org/10.1038/s41514-025-00266-5
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Expectations? For the Pistons, start with the gains of their young stars – NBA
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CSWP 37B, Automation of the NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Program: April 2025 Status Report
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The Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) validates third-party assertions that cryptographic module implementations satisfy the requirements of Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 140-3, Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules. The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has undertaken the Automated Cryptographic Module Validation Project (ACMVP) to support improvement in the efficiency and timeliness of CMVP operations and processes. The goal is to demonstrate a suite of automated tools that would permit organizations to perform testing of their cryptographic products according to the requirements of FIPS 140-3, then directly report the results to NIST using appropriate protocols.
This is a status report of progress made since October 2024 with the ACMVP and the planned next steps for the project.
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Nina Dobrev paid less than male ‘Vampire Diaries’ costars, book says
Nina Dobrev is getting real about her battle for equal pay on “The Vampire Diaries.”
In the new book “I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries,” the actress, 36, revealed she was paid less than her male costars on the hit CW show.
Dobrev, who played both the show’s lead character Elena Gilbert and Elena’s doppelganger Katherine, alleged in the book that she and her fellow actresses Candice King and Kat Graham “were the three lowest-paid series regulars” during the first two seasons, which aired from 2009 to 2011.
“It was a bit of a tricky situation because my contract only said to play Elena, but I was playing multiple characters, which doubled my workload,” she said. “I had to be on set for double the amount of time, I had to memorize double the amount of lines. I wanted to play Katherine, but I wanted to be compensated fairly for that, and I wanted to be an equal to the boys.”
According to the book, Dobrev, who starred on the teen drama series alongside Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder, “was successful in getting more money” but “never achieved parity” with her male costars.
“They just said out of principle they wouldn’t bump me up to being equal to the boys, and so that was probably the most hurtful because it felt like I was really working hard and we shot eighteen-hour days sometimes, and nights, and I was putting my absolute heart and soul, blood, sweat, and tears into it,” she said.
Dobrev continued, “I remember feeling like the studio didn’t appreciate what I was bringing to the show, and it felt like they were saying that all the hard work I was putting into it didn’t matter to them and that I wasn’t an equal to my male counterparts, and so that was upsetting to me.”
The book also revealed that the writers on “The Vampire Diaries” were told they couldn’t use Katherine anymore because the studio had to pay Dobrev whenever she played her.
“It got really heated, and so it basically got phoned down back to us writers that we were not allowed to write Katherine in at all ever, which of course was not something that I felt was right or fair,” cocreator Julie Plec said, going on to add, “I literally think we had to say, ‘We’ll kill Katherine,’ in order to get permission to use her.”
Dobrev ultimately left “The Vampire Diaries” at the end of the sixth season. The show continued on without her, starring Wesley and Somerhalder, though she came back in the final season.
According to the book, Dobrev “stood her ground” and pushed to be paid the same as Wesley and Somerhalder while negotiating her return for Season 8.
“It was just really important to me that at the end of the show, as a woman, I wanted to make sure that I was compensated and that I was an equal to my male counterparts on the show, and so it came down to that,” she said. “Their opening offer for me to come back in the series finale was five times less than what I made when I left in Season 6. That’s the only reason why at one point I almost didn’t come back. I needed to be paid parity to the boys.”
Though Dobrev did return for the series finale, the writers had hoped to have her in more episodes throughout the final season.
“The reason we couldn’t have her for more than the one episode is because they just wouldn’t pay,” Plec said. “It took a lot of work before they finally relented, but it came back that it was one episode only that they’d say yes for.”
Dobrev said it was “heartbreaking” that “the artistry had to suffer” because she couldn’t be in more episodes of Season 8. But she added, “I’m very happy that we were able to make it work and that I came back, because I wanted to be part of the final goodbye.”
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Immense stellar jet in Milky Way outskirts
Way out toward the edge of our Milky Way galaxy, a young star that is still forming is sending out a birth announcement to the Universe in the form of a celebratory looking firework.
These seething twin jets of hot gasses are blazing across eight light-years – twice the distance between our Sun and the nearest star system. Superheated gases falling onto the massive star are blasted back into space along the star’s rotational axis and powerful magnetic fields confine the jets to narrow beams.
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope witnessed the spectacle in infrared light. The jets are plowing into interstellar dust and gas, creating fascinating details captured only by Webb.
The discovery has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
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[Image description: Gaseous yellow-orange filaments look like a rose seen from the side and tilted slightly from upper left to lower right, slightly higher than the centre of the frame. Extending from the rose to the upper left and lower right are gaseous outflows that appear as red lobes that have an overall shape of tall, narrow triangles with rounded tips. Each red triangle is made up of wavy, irregular lines. Dozens of stars are scattered across the field. One particularly bright white star with eight diffraction spikes is located at the top of the yellow rose. Another bright blue star with even more prominent diffraction spikes is to its lower left. The background of space is black.]
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Astronomers capture stunning cosmic butterfly in space | National
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Astronomers have captured a cosmic butterfly.
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope show a jaw-dropping view of a planet-forming disc, nicknamed the “Butterfly Star,” appearing to have wings.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has hailed the pictures as a “fantastic new view” of IRAS 04302+2247, located about 525 light-years away in a dark cloud within the Taurus star-forming region.
They said: “With Webb, researchers can study the properties and growth of dust grains within protoplanetary discs like this one, shedding light on the earliest stages of planet formation.”
(ESA/Webb/NASA/CSA/Villenave via SWNS)
Observations of distant protoplanetary discs can help researchers understand what took place roughly 4.5 billion years ago in our own solar system, when the Sun, Earth, and the other planets formed.
ESA said: “IRAS 04302+2247, or IRAS 04302 for short, is a beautiful example of a protostar – a young star that is still gathering mass from its environment – surrounded by a protoplanetary disc in which baby planets might be forming.
“Given the appearance of the two reflection nebulas, IRAS 04302 has been nicknamed the ‘Butterfly Star.’”
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Toto Wolff reflects on Kimi Antonelli’s ‘underwhelming’ weekend at Monza as he assesses next steps for rookie
Toto Wolff has labelled Kimi Antonelli’s weekend at the Italian Grand Prix as “underwhelming”, with the Mercedes boss outlining how the team can ensure that the rookie gets “rid of the ballast” before entering into the 2026 season.
Antonelli enjoyed a decent start to his first F1 campaign – which culminated in a debut podium in Canada – but has faced a more challenging run of late, having recorded two DNFs and two non-points finishes during the last six rounds.
His best result across this stretch came from a P9 at Monza, a race in which the teenager fought his way back through the field after a difficult start.
However, that charge also saw him pick up a five-second time penalty for forcing Williams’ Alex Albon onto the grass at high speed whilst battling, meaning that he dropped from eighth to ninth at the chequered flag.
There was also a tough moment for the Italian on Friday at Monza when he lost control of his W16 through Lesmo 2 and became beached in the gravel, bringing his session to an early end.
When asked after the Grand Prix how this weekend compared to Antonelli’s previous home event at Imola in May, Wolff responded: “Underwhelming this weekend, underwhelming.
“You can’t put the car in the gravel bed and then expect to be there, and all of the race was underwhelming. It doesn’t change anything on my support and confidence in his future, because I believe he’s going to be very, very, very good, but today was underwhelming.”
In terms of what the missing ingredient is for Antonelli to put together a clean weekend, Wolff suggested that the youngster has continued to be affected by occasions where he has previously made an error.
“I think a clean weekend also means almost not to carry too much trauma of previous mistakes into the next session or into the next weekend, because that is luggage,” the Team Principal explained.
“You’re not going to attack the corner hard if you’ve been off there before and it finished your session, or maybe you’re not attacking a driver that should not be in your way, like [Pierre] Gasly, because he had this situation with [Charles] Leclerc. I mean, Kimi shouldn’t lose even a second with Gasly.”
While Mercedes are yet to officially confirm their line-up for 2026, Wolff recently indicated that he would like “to stay with Kimi and George [Russell] as it stands”.
As such, the Austrian was asked what the process will be to ensure that Antonelli is where he needs to be at the start of next year’s campaign.
“I think just freeing him up, freeing him up to drive,” Wolff answered. “He’s a great driver. He has this unbelievable ability and natural talent. He’s a racer. This is all there, but we need to get rid of the ballast.”
And when pushed on how that can be done, Wolff added: “By talking.”
Reflecting more widely on how the team fared at Monza – with Russell ending the Grand Prix in fifth place – the team boss conceded that the performance was not at the level the squad had been hoping for.
“We have opted not to put so much emphasis anymore on the remaining races this year,” Wolff said when asked if Mercedes could have opted for a bespoke low drag set-up for the event.
“But, nevertheless, the track characteristics should have been a little bit more good for us, and we didn’t perform on that level that we should have.”
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