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Why Gaza's future remains unclear despite the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement

France24.com (en) 

Despite the announcement that Israel and Hamas had reached a ceasefire and hostage-for-prisoner exchange agreement on Wednesday, the question of who is going to govern Gaza after the war's end remains unresolved. Both Israel and the US, alongside the Palestinian Authority, reject any future governance involving Hamas, which, despite being weakened, has not been eradicated by Israeli military operations.

Portable eDNA test can detect rare softshell turtle in a massive body of water

Phys.org 

Scientists have developed and validated a first-of-its-kind, portable environmental DNA (eDNA) test to help detect the world's rarest turtle, the Swinhoe's softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), which is teetering on the brink of extinction. Two of these turtles are currently known to exist, one wild animal in Vietnam (sex unknown) and one captive male in China (more than 100 years old). Additional Swinhoe's softshell turtles need to be found in order to breed these turtles successfully in captivity and rescue this species.