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Gaza: The Israeli military pounded the outskirts of Gaza City over the weekend, destroying buildings and homes, residents said,聽as Israeli leaders vowed to press on with a planned offensive.聽The military said on Sunday that its forces had returned to combat in the northern Jabalia area to dismantle militant tunnels and prevent 鈥淗amas terrorists from returning to operate in these areas.鈥� A global hunger monitor reported Friday that Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially in聽famine. 鈥� Reuters

Ukraine: Russia accused Ukraine on Sunday of launching drone attacks that sparked a fire at a nuclear power plant in its western Kursk region. The strikes came as Ukraine marked Independence Day, commemorating its 1991 declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. 鈥淲hat our future will be is up to us alone,鈥� President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, calling for a 鈥渏ust peace.鈥� 鈥� The Associated Press

Baltimore: President Donald Trump threatened to send federal troops to Maryland鈥檚 largest city to 鈥渃lean up鈥� crime, after Gov. Wes Moore invited him to visit the city for a 鈥渟afety walk.鈥� The Washington Post reported Saturday that the Pentagon is preparing to deploy thousands of National Guard troops to Chicago as soon as September. The push for greater federal control, seen so far in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., is putting local politicians in an awkward spot.聽鈥� Staff

Intel:聽President Trump said Friday the United States would take a 10% stake in Intel under a deal that converts government grants into equity. In the latest unusual intervention by the White House in corporate America, the agreement guarantees the struggling chipmaker about $10 billion to build or expand factories in the U.S. 鈥� Reuters

Sanctuary: A judge has ruled the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and 30 other cities and counties over policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts. The administration has ratcheted up pressure on those communities as it seeks to remove millions of undocumented residents. 鈥� AP

School win:聽Test scores are rebounding in Washington, D.C. The percentage of students reading on grade level is higher than before the pandemic, while math proficiency has reached its highest point since classrooms reopened in 2021. 鈥淚n many instances, we now can declare we have recovered from the pandemic,鈥� the city鈥檚 deputy mayor for education told the Washington Post. 鈥� Staff

A recent survey of U.S. professors found that 75% were looking for work outside the country. The result is an exodus that has not been seen since European scientists sought refuge on U.S. shores during the World War II era. For the researchers who have chosen to leave, it is bittersweet 鈥� and professionally risky. But they say the future of science depends on it.

As images of the starvation in Gaza have multiplied, the Jewish diaspora has increasingly found itself torn between its love of Israel and its abhorrence of the suffering of Palestinians. Now, it鈥檚 tentatively starting to stand against Gazan hunger.

The ancient Japanese art of paper folding is unfolding new possibilities for modern-day innovation.

By combining inquiry and ingenuity with persistence and patience, a young engineering student at Brigham Young University has discovered an entirely new class of origami design. Not only does this repeating, replicable 鈥渂loom鈥� formation inspire aesthetic awe; it offers multiple applications for science and technology.

Sophomore Zhongyuan Wang, who learned origami as a child in Beijing, and his supervisor, Professor Larry Howell (featured in the Monitor previously), published the discovery in a scientific journal on Wednesday. The unique pattern, made from a single sheet, can be folded flat, then expand radially to 鈥渂loom鈥� like a flower. These features make it highly 鈥渄eployable鈥� in compacted satellite arrays that can then expand in space or in microtechnologies and tools on Earth.

Mr. Wang鈥檚 work and the principles behind it, Dr. Howell says, point to an 鈥渋nfinite number of possibilities.鈥�

鈥淭here are a lot of patterns out there waiting to be discovered,鈥� the article鈥檚 third co-author, mathematical theorist Robert Lang, concurs.

As he experimented with folding and refolding, Mr. Wang told Utah鈥檚 Daily Herald, he felt 鈥渋deas come to my mind 鈥� to reality. ...鈥� These scientists鈥� comments hint at what the founder of this newspaper, Mary Baker Eddy, has referred to as the 鈥渋nexhaustible source鈥� of creation.

Moreover, Dr. Lang told The New York Times that he is struck by the sheer beauty of Mr. Wang鈥檚 creations. 鈥淚 would not be surprised to see that in a museum,鈥� he said of one piece.

That interplay between art and science underscores that innate curiosity and inventiveness are not constrained within traditional academic or theoretical bounds. Some scholars have pointed to a relation between emerging modes of artistic expression and scientific innovation, especially in the first half of the 20th century. They have asked: Did cubism鈥檚 use of multiple vantage points and geometric representations spark new ways in which physicists looked at material objects?

Creativity 鈥渋s an important tool for finding our inner artist in every discipline. ... Every human being is capable of cultivating it,鈥� former BYU music professor Claudine Bigelow told students during a talk several years ago. 鈥淲hat kinds of creativity are you best at? Are you a maker, a thinker, an innovator, or a problem solver?鈥�

Mr. Wang seems to be a little bit of all of those. 鈥淚 love to do origami,鈥� he says in . 鈥淏ut if I can use origami to make practical applications that benefit the world, that will be a dream come true.鈥�