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Third, sound is a vibration that travels through a medium, like a gas, a liquid or a solid object. A sound's source is an object that moves or changes shape very rapidly. For example, if you strike a bell, the bell vibrates in the air. As one side of the bell moves out, it pushes the air molecules next to it, increasing the pressure in that region of the air. This area of higher pressure is a compression. As the side of the bell moves back in, it pulls the molecules apart, creating a lower-pressure region called a rarefaction. The bell then repeats the process, creating a repeating series of compressions and rarefactions. Each repetition is one wavelength of the sound wave. The sound wave travels as the moving molecules push. Pull the molecules around them. Each molecule moves the one next to it in turn. Without this movement of molecules, the sound could not travel, which is why there is no sound in a vacuum.|Lasers might cure addiction in lab rats, but there's nothing similar available for human addiction right now. When it comes to creative fixes, the 21st century is pretty well-stocked. Want to lose weight? Get bariatric surgery. Want to quit smoking? Hire a hypnotherapist. Want to stop binge drinking? Shoot lasers into your head to cure your addiction. So maybe that last one doesn't seem as familiar - or as accessible - as the first two. That's because, for one, it's not entirely true. While there is some evidence that lasers can affect addiction behaviors, it hasn't been tested on humans, and it's only been shown with one addictive drug. First, of course, researchers needed rats with an addiction. They didn't go for the easy play and get them hooked on cheddar; they gave the rats a strong urge for cocaine. 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The United States and NATO have rejected the demands and told Russia to withdraw from Ukraine’s borders, warning that an attack will trigger damaging economic sanctions, as well as a beefed-up NATO presence in eastern Europe. A series of talks in various European cities this month have failed to ease tensions, though U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed at a meeting in Geneva on Friday to keep talking. The United States has promised to provide written answers to Moscow’s demands this week, but has rejected calls for a ban on possible NATO expansion as a non-starter. The crisis has laid bare divisions in the West, with some European Union members appearing less willing to take severe action against Russia, which supplies about 40 percent of the bloc’s natural gas supplies. The new government in EU economic powerhouse Germany in particular has faced criticism from Kiev over its refusal to send defensive weapons to Ukraine, as well as hesitating over one of the harshest economic sanctions under discussion - cutting Moscow from the global SWIFT payments system. There were hopes for some easing of tensions after the French government announced that Russian and Ukrainian officials would meet, along with French and German counterparts, in Paris on Wednesday to try to find a way out of the impasse. 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