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Dubai Flight Attack
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.14 · Flight 93 passengers fought back and prevented a fourth target
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.08 · Airplane travels 14 hours with a hole in its side
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · See intact objects found in the wreckage of Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after its 40 passengers and crew stormed the cockpit, stopping the hijackers from reaching their likely target, the US Capitol Building.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · In 2012, scientists purposely crashed a Boeing 727 to identify where the safest place to sit is on a plane in order to survive a belly-flop-style impact.
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.13 · How a panel blew off a Boeing plane in mid-air
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FTC Scopes AI
- 0.57 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · OpenAI helped kick-start an AI arms race in Silicon Valley
- 0.56 · explainers · keep 0.07 · A merger between OpenAI and Anthropic was reportedly proposed after Sam Altman's firing to keep OpenAI safety-oriented amid the internal turmoil.
- 0.54 · curiosity · keep 0.49 · The history of Anthropic began with a break from OpenAI over safety concerns.
- 0.53 · news-in-context · keep 0.07 · Google Search incorporated AI Overviews in 2024 to fight back competitors
- 0.53 · experiences · keep 0.17 · Anthropic's Frontier Red Team assesses the dangers of its AI tools through 'evals'—safety tests that probe models to disclose sensitive information.
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.11 · Sam Altman has said that OpenAI released version 3.5 of ChatGPT early as a public service to allow the public to adjust to the new tool before rolling out ChatGPT-4.
- 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.43 · See a web of circular investments among major AI industry players like Nvidia and OpenAI, as many top AI companies provide significant investments to one another.
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.13 · AI is transforming the marketing and advertising industries
- 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.59 · View a timeline of AI deployments from 2017 to 2025
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.29 · How Anthropic's experimental corporate structure incentivizes safe AI development
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · The Anthropic Economic Index shows AI adoption is highest in computer science roles.
- 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.29 · Fair use may shield AI companies from potential copyright violations
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Gene-Edited Bananas
- 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.78 · Why bananas are in trouble
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Before precise gene-editing tools like CRISPR, humans had been controlling the evolution of crops for millennia by selectively breeding them for specific traits.
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.27 · Genetic engineering has accelerated millennia of altering various crops' genes
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.17 · In addition to the cross-breeding techniques humans have used for thousands of years, organisms with novel genetic makeups can be produced by inserting DNA from other species.
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.79 · Here's why you've never eaten a banana seed
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.09 · Scientists may have discovered why gene-edited pig kidneys are rejected in humans
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.76 · Genetic engineering will change everything forever
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.46 · Synthetic biology can prevent extinction by creating create disease-resilient plants and animals
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.15 · Gene therapy, a hope of the Human Genome Project, has successfully treated a baby born with a rare urea cycle disorder that causes toxic ammonia level buildup.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Advances in agriculture are being powered by CRISPR to boost carbon capture
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · The average banana produces one positron—the antimatter counterpart to an electron—every 75 minutes as its trace amounts of radioactive potassium decay.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.14 · How MIT researchers have used genetic mutations to improve photosynthesis efficiency
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Conservationists mount an operation to save Bumpy, an orphaned hippo who now enjoys pool days and has befriend
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.80 · Watch how wild animals are projected into a mall
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · River dolphins manhandle an unlucky anaconda
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · From glands beneath their skin, hippos produce their own sunscreen in the form of a fluid containing hipposudoric and norhipposudoric acids, which absorb sunlight in the ultraviolet and visible range.
- 0.40 · experiences · keep 0.64 · A collection of the world's best live animal cams
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Chicago White Sox defeats Houston Astros in the team's first MLB Playoffs win since 2005
- 0.43 · longform · keep 0.74 · The 1919 Chicago White Sox, later known as the 'Black Sox,' were banned from baseball for fixing that year's World Series despite being acquitted in court.
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Federal judge approves settlement allowing Paramount to close $111B deal for Warner Bros. Discovery, ending a
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.28 · A 1948 Supreme Court ruling realigned the film industry
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The 1948 Supreme Court ruling was overturned in 2020
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.09 · In 2024, the league signed a 11-year deal with Disney, Amazon, and NBC Universal
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Collection of paintings, including works by Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet, is going up for auction on Nov.
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.09 · Bellagio hotel sells Picasso artwork
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.49 · Picasso is the bestselling painter of all time
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.71 · The Mona Lisa's celebrity status and repeated restorations have obscured what made the painting so revolutionary for its time
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.77 · Banksy once sold his highly valued artwork on the street for $60
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.50 · See a breakdown of the bestselling visual art media—from paintings, which account for about 59% of all fine art dealer sales, to sculptures, which account for roughly 15%.
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.33 · When a museum closes, it may need to sell or auction assets to pay off its debts, which can result in the breakup of valuable collections and the relocation of pieces to successor institutions and private collectors.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.60 · Art theft is the third-largest source of criminal revenues worldwide.
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.26 · Georgia O'Keeffe was the most expensive female artist of all time from 2014 to 2025
- 0.40 · longform · keep 0.24 · Two men dressed as cops stole artwork from a Boston museum valued at over $500M at the time
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Trove of posthumous paintings reveals Basquiat's technical skill and process
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.15 · Peruse a running sale of collectible checks
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Butterfly flight and wing patterns create optical illusions that confuse predators' sense of speed and directi
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · Evolution doesn't want you to see these animals
- 0.51 · experiences · keep 0.64 · Tracking butterfly migration via the pollen they collect
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.65 · With one species reaching speeds of 58 kilometers (36 miles) per hour, dragonflies are the world's fastest flying insect.
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · Spiders may manipulate captured male fireflies into mimicking female mating signals
- 0.49 · experiences · keep 0.81 · The science of optical illusions
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.74 · View a gallery of microscopic images of butterfly wings, revealing colorful layers of scales, hairs, and metallic-looking structures.
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.71 · Mosquitoes stop flying at wind speeds equivalent to the swishing of a horse's tail.
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.71 · Fireflies light up to provide mating signals and warnings to predators
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.83 · Catfish have taste buds spread across their entire skin, making their whole body function like a tongue that can taste food several feet away.
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.86 · Why scientists are making robot insects
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.82 · Behind the fascinating disguising mechanism of camouflage
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.88 · Some female fireflies mimic the signals of other species to lure in and eat them
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Eating sugar-rich foods while taking antibiotics may increase levels of bacteria linked to hard-to-treat infec
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.35 · Artificial sweeteners may disrupt gut health, throwing off the balance of beneficial bacteria in the gut and shifting the composition of the microbiome.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.48 · Superbugs are pathogens that have proved resistant to medications designed to combat them, rendering standard treatments ineffective.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.19 · In 2026, University of Cambridge researchers reported that a group of gut bacteria called CAG-170 may be a key marker of good health, occurring far more often in healthy individuals and less commonly in people with chronic diseases.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Overuse of antibiotics gives bacteria more opportunity to evolve their defenses
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.67 · The dark side of modern sugar production
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.24 · COVID accelerated antibiotic resistance
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.40 · Scientists from the frontline discuss the future of antibiotics and superbugs
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Specific gut microbiome 'fingerprints' are associated with cancer recurrence, with up to 94% accuracy.
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.37 · Xylitol, a sugar alcohol, is sometimes added to foods at 1,000 times the level seen naturally in foods.
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.63 · Gummy vitamins have candy-level sugar—and that sweetness is linked to overdoses
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Most common lung cancer can develop resistance to drugs targeting KRAS, a gene involved in about 25% of cases,
- 0.62 · explainers · keep 0.19 · Advanced drugs are closing in on cancer's deadliest mutations
- 0.57 · explainers · keep 0.10 · At a 2026 cancer conference, news that a novel pancreatic cancer drug doubled survival times in clinical trials led to a standing ovation.
- 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The FDA has approved 9 cancer drugs that target specific mutations, regardless of which organs harbor the tumors—a growing trend that will require insurers to revise their treatment approval processes.
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.15 · Lung cancer advances are making a big difference
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.24 · Tumor genetic profiling can lead to targeted treatments
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.32 · Explore more statistics about cancer
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.36 · Breast, prostate, and lung cancer are the most common forms of cancer.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.66 · Many cancers arise from genetic mutations inherited from your parents
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.21 · Combining two cancer drugs increased the life space of mice by 30%
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.15 · A snapshot of progress in cancer treatments
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.47 · mRNA vaccines alter immune response, not DNA, to combat diseases like cancer.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.41 · About 40% of cancer cases are linked to preventable risk factors
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US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.3%, Dow -0.9%, Nasdaq +0.2%) after new economic data indicates inflat
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The S&P 500, managed by the same company, is another major stock index
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Interest rates have historically been an indicator of the US economy's overall health.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.23 · The S&P 500 yields a roughly 10.5% average annual return
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · Retail investing by the numbers
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · President Trump's 2025 Tariffs added less inflationary pressure to the economy than expected in their first year
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Investors rely on the S&P 500 as a benchmark for the state of the economy
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.45 · Prices can still feel high even if inflation is slowing
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.10 · China had an inflation rate of -0.4% in August 2025
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.22 · The Dow Jones Industrial Average vs. the S&P 500: Which one is a better representation of the economy?
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · US IPO issuance—the total dollar amount of new stock sold to the public via IPOs—hit a record high in 2026.
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Carnegie Mellon University will receive a $3B donation from Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of hedge fund Citadel
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.56 · Some of the robber barons, including Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, were among America's greatest philanthropists.
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.37 · Citadel founder Ken Griffin has a $1.5B property portfolio
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · Andrew Carnegie donated $56M to build 2,509 public libraries worldwide
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.46 · Why donors love to give to the wealthy schools
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.50 · Some Ivy Leagues are worth billions of dollars, managing massive endowments to support their operations and investing donations for long-term growth rather than spending them.
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.27 · The largest university endowments in the US
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.39 · University endowments are primarily funded through charitable donations from alumni, philanthropists, or foundations.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.60 · How universities manage their endowments
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.31 · Why endowments took off at the turn of the century
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.36 · Former Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is among the world's most generous philanthropists, having given away more than $68B.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.18 · A look at Harvard University's endowment
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.09 · Evaluating college endowment returns
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Toy maker Mattel's shares fall 4.2% on news CEO Ynon Kreiz is leaving company for a senior position at Paramou
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Pop culture sometimes changes the way people invest
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US military ends its 12-year mission in Iraq after declaring victory over ISIS; Iran claims responsibility for
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.48 · Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, drawing the new Islamic Republic into a devastating eight-year war
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The US and allies invaded Iraq based on flawed intelligence about potential weapons of mass destruction.
- 0.41 · longform · keep 0.49 · Hear how the US and Iran went from close allies to bitter adversaries after the 1979 revolution.
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Iran says it has received the US' counterproposal, is weighing it
- 0.41 · longform · keep 0.49 · Hear how the US and Iran went from close allies to bitter adversaries after the 1979 revolution.
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New rules go into effect today for SNAP assistance, impacting an estimated 37 million Americans; changes inclu
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Food stamps were revived as a JFK pilot as one of his first actions upon taking office in 1961, but the program had its largest expansion under President Richard Nixon in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Social Security beneficiaries have received cost-of-living adjustments almost every year since 1975
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.40 · How many Americans receive government assistance?
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.14 · Why there's a snack recession
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Supreme Court greenlights execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee's only female inmate on death row, superseding
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Meet Backpack, the chunky champion of Fat Bear Week.
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See which companies rank among the world’s best employers.
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.18 · American Express is one of the top-ranked places to work in the US
- 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.63 · The 50 best (and highest paying) jobs in America
- 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · See the world's largest fashion companies, from Nike to H&M, ranked by their CO2 emissions.
- 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.48 · The world's 50 most valuable private companies
- 0.48 · experiences · keep 0.55 · The world's 10 best places to live
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.68 · The best countries for work-life balance, ranked
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.45 · Ranking the world's highest paid athletes in 2022
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.29 · The world's most (and least) corrupt countries
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.49 · See a ranking of the world's most valuable brands
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Read a profile about a company that makes everyone's salaries public knowledge in an effort to curb the gender pay gap.
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.25 · Visualize the world's top 50 private equity firms in 2025 by capital raised.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.29 · The Forbes Midas List is an annual ranking of the world's top 100 venture capitalists
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The night sky is getting roughly 10% brighter every year.
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.70 · Enough sunlight hits Earth in just 90 minutes to power the planet for an entire year
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.59 · Stars appear to twinkle because turbulence in the motion of molecules in Earth's atmosphere causes light to bend and wiggle rapidly on its way to the surface—a phenomenon called scintillation.
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... and explore a map of the world's darkest skies.
- 0.50 · experiences · keep 0.80 · Create your own constellations in the stars
- 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.77 · Explore the Earth at night from space
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.72 · Explore Earth's atmosphere and what its layers contain in this interactive adventure
- 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.79 · Explore an interactive forecast of the future of the universe, from the return of Halley's Comet to the last light in the cosmos.
- 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.73 · Explore the night's sky from anywhere
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.59 · Create digital maps of Earth with custom sketches and labels
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.33 · Explore a gallery of astronomical images curated by the European Space Agency, which includes illustrations and images of aurorae, planets, stars, galaxies, stellar nurseries, exoplanets, and black holes.
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.73 · See to the edge of the universe with this two-decade astronomy project
- 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.22 · Mapping the universe's 1.3 million quasars
- 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.38 · A map of the Milky Way
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.72 · Explore interactive maps from fictional journeys, including 'The Odyssey,' 'Moby-Dick,' and more.
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.82 · Explore the deepest parts of the ocean
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Who were England’s so-called “witches,” really?
- 0.53 · curiosity · keep 0.58 · How royal panic led to Europe's deadliest witch hunts
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.48 · How Scotland's war on witchcraft started
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.59 · A map of those accused of witchcraft across Scotland
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · Englishmen in the 17th century mixed their blood into wine to show devotion
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This newly discovered geometric shape has eight sides and three holes.
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Scientists once dubbed Nov. 13, 2026, “doomsday.” Should you be worried?
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.30 · The 2012 Maya-predicted apocalypse didn't really stem from the ancient Mayans
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · The Year 2038 problem is the next potential computer time rollover bug
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.20 · Time magazine ran a cover story titled 'The End of the World as We Know it?' in January 1999
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.28 · Some online users believe gravity will 'switch off' for 7 seconds in August 2026
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.54 · How to prevent a worst-case scenario with synbio
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.38 · The 16th-century astrologer Nostradamus' predictions for 2024
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.38 · Experts argue that nuclear war is more likely than is commonly believed
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.28 · AI experts argue that artificial intelligence could annihilate humanity in two primary ways: Humans weaponizing extremely powerful AI, or humans losing control of it.
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England’s beloved Sycamore Gap tree is showing signs of life.
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.56 · An inventory of ancient trees in the United Kingdom
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The newest fall fragrance is decidedly corny.
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The newest fall fragrance is decidedly corny.
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.39 · Gen Z's love for perfume is boosting sales
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