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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Italian national research funding organization

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Jan 16, 2026
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Hexachloroethane (HC) smoke grenades used in operation metro surge

The available reporting shows documented use of hexachloroethane (HC)–type smoke grenades by federal forces during U.S. protest operations in 2020—most thoroughly documented in Portland—while official...

Nov 11, 2025
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What is the history of US poverty thresholds?

The United States’ official poverty thresholds trace to mid‑20th century technical work that became policy: developed the modern measure in 1963–64 using the USDA’s economy food plan and a “multiply b...

Dec 12, 2025
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How have ballistic and acoustic analyses for the JFK assassination been validated or challenged by experts?

The acoustic evidence from a Dallas police Dictabelt was central to the 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) finding that “scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability...

Dec 15, 2025

Are there any limitations to matching a bullet to a gun without the gun's serial number?

Bullet-to-gun matching (firearms identification) can often link a recovered bullet or cartridge case to a class of weapons or to a specific firearm when examiners compare striations and impressions, b...

Nov 7, 2025

Are genetically modified foods safe?

The scientific literature and major public health institutions largely conclude that foods derived from genetically modified crops are , based on multiple authoritative reviews and regulatory framewor...

Jan 31, 2026

What medical protocols exist for decontaminating infants and breastfeeding mothers after tear‑gas exposure?

After , public health agencies recommend prompt physical decontamination—remove contaminated clothing and wash skin and hair—before breastfeeding, expressing, or pumping because it reduces surface con...

Dec 14, 2025

How have child poverty and family structure shifts influenced welfare participation by race over the past decade?

Child poverty and family-structure shifts are strongly linked to patterns of welfare participation and to racial disparities in who receives benefits: in 2023 non‑Hispanic white people made up 44.2% o...

Feb 7, 2026

Was Oswald the lone shooter

The official investigations concluded that fired the shots that and that no evidence proved a wider conspiracy; the Warren Commission and multiple federal investigations found Oswald the shooter . Nev...

Feb 3, 2026

How do state-level cloud seeding programs in the US measure effectiveness and report results to NOAA?

State-level programs in the measure effectiveness primarily through observational comparisons—target versus control areas using precipitation gauges, streamflow records, radar and satellite data, and ...

Jan 21, 2026

What independent toxicology tests have been done on canisters recovered from the Minneapolis protests?

Independent, third‑party toxicology analyses of physical canisters recovered from protests are not documented in the provided reporting; reporting instead documents investigative work tracing likely i...

Jan 14, 2026

What documented atmospheric or human experiments in the 1950s–1960s involved spraying or dispersal, and how do they differ from today's claims?

Cold War–era U.S. tests in the 1950s–1960s deliberately dispersed tracer particles and presumed‑harmless microbes over cities and regions to study how a biological or chemical agent might travel, nota...

Dec 21, 2025

What methods does DHS use to estimate illegal border crossings versus legal entries?

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) distinguishes between measured “encounters” at ports and between ports of entry and uses a mix of administrative counts, observational systems, survey-based i...

Nov 25, 2025

What peer-reviewed publications since 1998 have challenged or supported single-shooter vs. multiple-shooter interpretations using modern audio/visual forensics?

Peer‑reviewed, forensic audio/visual studies since 1998 have produced a small but contested literature that both supports and challenges multiple‑shooter readings—most prominently acoustic reconstruct...