Innholdsfortegnelse for 12/29/2017 i Newsweek International

SOMEWHERE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN Yemen, the missile lifted off in a dense cloud of fire and smoke and began its arc over Saudi Arabia. After roaring north for some 600 miles, the Iranian-made Qiam-1 reached its target, the international airport just outside of Riyadh. The Saudis claim they blew the missile out of the sky with a U.S.-supplied Patriot interceptor, but experts now say the incoming missile exploded upon impact, narrowly missing the domestic airport terminal. This November 4 attack, Middle East intelligence sources tell Newsweek on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters, was one of 87 such long-range missile strikes Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have launched against the Saudis in their nearly three-year war. The strikes—some 50 of which the Saudis have tried to keep…

SOME OF THE FOLLOWING ACTORS HAVE been or will be nominated for awards, some will not. The Newsweek culture desk doesn’t get hung up on stuff like that. These are the performances that stuck with us. It was a big year for 13-year-olds, but also for exceptional scenery-chewing, big returns (Jeff Goldblum!), final bows (Daniel Day-Lewis) and debuts (including one former boy band member on the beach at Dunkirk). Ranking is for losers, so here’s our list, alphabetically. Seo-hyun Ahn OKJA It’s a very good bet that South Korean child star Ahn has a rich and full acting career ahead of her, yet it’s unlikely she’ll encounter the precise challenges of this fantasy-thriller again: co-starring with a gigantic CGI super-pig, clinging to the back of a speeding truck and going…

CLIMBING TO THE “DEATH ZONE” is perilous. Scaling mountains to heights where planes fly and there’s little oxygen can trigger extreme responses. There is no shortage of personal accounts of mountain climbers, alone at high altitudes, losing their grip on reality. One man who climbed Mount Everest recounts how, thousands of feet up, a climber named “Jimmy” appeared out of the darkness, said “hello” and climbed behind him before disappearing. Now, doctors are taking a closer look at such stories. A team led by Dr. Katharina Hüfner, composed of researchers from Eurac Research and the Medical University of Innsbruck, studied the accounts of climbers at altitudes above 2 miles to understand what was happening to them. According to the researchers, they may be experiencing psychosis. The results were published in…

“I love that young guys will see that there’s nothing wrong with being vulnerable, being themselves.” IF YOU LEARN ONE NAME BEFORE AWARDS SEASON, MAKE IT TIMOTHÉE Chalamet. (Pronounce it the American way—his friends call him “Timmy.”) The 21-year-old had a breakout year, appearing in two of the most critically acclaimed films of 2017. He grabbed attention in Greta Gerwig’s debut film, Lady Bird, but it’s his role as the vulnerable Elio Perlman in Call Me by Your Name that could earn him serious hardware in the next two months. (He has been nominated for a Golden Globe and has already won the New York Film Critics Circle award for best actor.) The film, a love story adapted from André Aciman’s 2007 novel of the same name, follows 17-year-old Elio…

THOSE NICE FOL S WHO MA E your Greek yogurt create waste that could one day be used in jet fuel. Mixing whey—the watery remains after protein is strained from milk—with thousands of species of bacteria and then heating this brew transforms it into a new material called bio-oil, which could be used in biofuels or as additives in livestock feed. A study published in Joule in mid-December details how bacteria feed on whey and then turn it into caproic acid and caprylic acid—biooil. The research is an attempt to revolutionize food production by creating a “circular economy,” in which all waste products are recovered for something useful and perhaps even profitable. “The agricultural market…has a very large carbon footprint, and turning acid whey into feedstock that animals can eat…