Political scientist: Risk of a return to major IS acts
Several countries have raised the terror threat level after the attack in Moscow. In France it is seen that there is an "imminent risk" of murder and in Norway the police have been allowed to carry weapons during the Easter weekend, writes SVT Nyheter.
Evin Ismail, lecturer in political science at the Norwegian Defense University who researches IS, sees a risk that the terrorist group is returning to the type of major terrorist attacks that were carried out in Europe a few years ago.
- The crackdown in Tyresö, where several automatic weapons were found, is such an indicator that larger massacres are being planned, and now also Moscow, she says in Studio Ett.
Säpo does not plan to raise the terrorist threat level in Sweden further. Jonas Trolle, head of the Center against Violent Extremism, assesses that there is good prevention work going on and that the authorities have a "good grasp of the situation".
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Eurovision Song Contest
Concern among Jews ahead of Eurovision: "Taking no risks"
Several of Malmö's musicians have chosen to boycott Malmö's stages as a protest against Israel's participation in Eurovision, Sydsvenskan reports.
- We do not want to participate in a cultural event that can normalize the genocide in Palestine, says Lukas Pettersson Lindberg in the bluegrass band New Valley String Band.
Several members of Jewish youth in Malmö state at the same time that they are considering not participating in any events connected to the music competition.
- I will not take any unnecessary risks, says chairman Mira Kelber to TT.
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Over 4,000 ancient brains are expected to provide new insights
4,405 brains unearthed by archaeologists provide new answers about the body's most complex organ, reports CNN.
Researchers and anthropologists at the University of Oxford have produced a unique database of information on brains discovered in northern European peat bogs, shipwrecks, Victorian poorhouses and on the mountaintops of the Andes. The oldest brain on record is 12,000 years old.
The fact that the brains were so well preserved despite many thousands of years underground has surprised the researchers. The database will also make it possible to study brain tissue in new ways.
- Examining tissue from brains that have not been exposed to the environment and stimuli of modern society can help us understand how some of the brain diseases we encounter today can be at least partially caused by the way we live, says pathologist Martin Wirenfeldt Nielsen at the Danish Southern Danish University Hospital.
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