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Sudanese Market Attack, Alberta Recommits, and Regrowing a Knee

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Sudanese Strikes Spill Over
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Alberta Rejects Separation
  1. 0.51 · news-in-context · keep nan · Alberta once cut its oil supply to the rest of Canada to fight a federal energy program, a 1980s feud that still feeds separatism.
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AI Virus vs. Bacterial Infection
  1. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.61 · A physician with a rare and deadly disease saved his own life by identifying an existing medication that he repurposed for his condition, and now he's using AI to try to do the same for other patients.
  2. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.43 · A scientist successfully treated her own breast cancer by injecting the tumor with lab-grown viruses.
  3. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.71 · Wolbachia is a naturally occurring bacterium being employed to fight dengue
  4. 0.47 · 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.
  5. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.77 · Bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria before multiplying within them—exist on Earth in numbers greater than all other living organisms combined.
  6. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.23 · The potential promises and pitfalls of AI in medicine
  7. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.25 · Modern antivirus software searches for malicious behavior alongside malicious code
  8. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.14 · Experimental hantavirus vaccines and therapies, still under development, have long been funded by the US military.
  9. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.75 · How medical robots could cure cancer
  10. 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.55 · Dispose of invading viruses while learning about the CRISPR immune system
  11. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.60 · Malware has transitioned from notoriety-driven to profit- and data-driven
  12. 0.44 · 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.
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LeBron James opens his 24th NBA season with 14 points for the Philadelphia 76ers in a 106-100 win over defendi
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Richard Riehle, actor known for "Office Space" and "Grounded for Life," dies at age 78
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Kyle Kennedy, granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, dies at age 42, six years after severe spinal cord injury
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Rapper Jay-Z, whose entertainment company organizes the Super Bowl halftime show, has reportedly selected hims
  1. 0.58 · news-in-context · keep 0.72 · See a ranking of every Super Bowl halftime show since 1993
  2. 0.56 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Listen to the history of the Super Bowl halftime show
  3. 0.55 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · Michael Jackson's halftime show created the modern Super Bowl spectacle
  4. 0.54 · curiosity · keep 0.49 · Prince's Super Bowl halftime show is widely considered one of the best
  5. 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.35 · Super Bowl halftime shows reliably drive massive music sales spikes, often propelling an act's back catalog to the top of the charts.
  6. 0.53 · curiosity · keep 0.81 · The first Super Bowl halftime show featured marching bands and two men on jetpacks
  7. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.39 · Some Super Bowl performers make less than $1K for the event
  8. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.19 · Kendrick Lamar brought his Drake feud to the Super Bowl stage
  9. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.26 · The NFL selects the Super Bowl host city years in advance and follows a list of criteria
  10. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.30 · Beyoncé's 2018 headlining set is among the festival's most famous
  11. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.65 · Katy Perry's 2015 halftime show generated many memes in the age of social media
  12. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · Janet Jackson's 2004 halftime show sparked a broadcast backlash
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Doctors develop AI tool that predicts cancer patients' survival odds from a single selfie; those who looked fi
  1. 0.61 · explainers · keep 0.25 · An AI model can read lung CT scans with no visible tumor and flag which patients are likely to develop cancer within six years.
  2. 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.21 · Using deep learning to analyze tumors
  3. 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.13 · Trials ongoing for a 99% accurate, AI-powered blood test
  4. 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.61 · A physician with a rare and deadly disease saved his own life by identifying an existing medication that he repurposed for his condition, and now he's using AI to try to do the same for other patients.
  5. 0.52 · experiences · keep 0.61 · Explore this interactive tool from the National Cancer Institute to calculate your risk of dying from various causes, including cancer.
  6. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.63 · Six pigeons were trained to detect cancer from looking at CT scans—now that work is the basis for training new AI medical tools.
  7. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.59 · Emergency room evaluations may be improved with AI algorithms
  8. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.75 · How medical robots could cure cancer
  9. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.25 · Artificial intelligence may improve organ donation systems—and even organ health
  10. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.35 · How artificial intelligence, which detects patterns, can identify burnout
  11. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.50 · Meet the investor running his life with AI
  12. 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.72 · Read about a fictionalized life randomly chosen from human history.
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Scientists revive pig kidneys after up to one year in ultracold storage and successfully transplant them into
  1. 0.69 · explainers · keep 0.17 · Read why one man agreed to get a pig kidney in 2025 to replace his own failing organ
  2. 0.67 · curiosity · keep 0.10 · Chinese scientists transplanted a pig lung into a human being in 2025—but it had to be removed.
  3. 0.67 · explainers · keep 0.09 · Scientists may have discovered why gene-edited pig kidneys are rejected in humans
  4. 0.63 · explainers · keep 0.09 · A first-of-its-kind clinical trial announced in 2025 taps livers from gene-edited pigs to clean blood.
  5. 0.63 · curiosity · keep 0.10 · One man lived with a gene-edited pig kidney for 271 days, setting a record, before he received a human kidney.
  6. 0.62 · curiosity · keep 0.14 · Xenotransplants are an experimental last resort for the terminally ill when they cannot or will not receive a human organ.
  7. 0.60 · explainers · keep 0.11 · Pig brain cellular activity was restarted hours after death in study published in 2019
  8. 0.59 · explainers · keep 0.24 · Pig-to-human transplant work has raised concerns about donor pigs' living conditions.
  9. 0.58 · explainers · keep 0.57 · Explore different pig-to-human xenotransplantation possibilities, including using pig pancreatic cells for treating diabetes.
  10. 0.57 · explainers · keep 0.76 · See how pig heart valves have been placed in humans since 1965.
  11. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.17 · Donated hearts remain viable three times longer now with new tech
  12. 0.54 · curiosity · keep 0.12 · After the first gene-edited pig heart transplant patient died, a latent pig virus was discovered inside his xenotransplant.
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Marsquake—the Martian equivalent of an earthquake—originated beneath the largest canyon system in our solar sy
  1. 0.53 · experiences · keep 0.18 · From 2018 to 2022, NASA's InSight Lander used three primary instruments to measure Martian seismic activity, subterranean heat flow, and wobbles of its north pole.
  2. 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.59 · Some 19th century astronomers thought Mars was inhabited
  3. 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.69 · Although Mars does not feature liquid water on its surface, geological features provide evidence that the Martian surface experienced massive flooding in the distant past.
  4. 0.51 · experiences · keep 0.85 · Fly through the Valles Marineris—the Mars canyon that stretches farther than the width of the continental US.
  5. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · While geography pertains to Earth's surface features, areography pertains to Mars
  6. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.35 · What makes the Earth shake?
  7. 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · Mars features distinct geographic contrasts between its northern and southern regions
  8. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.42 · Dust particles on Mars can generate lightning
  9. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.25 · The frequency of earthquakes and the distribution of their magnitudes have not changed significantly over long-term records, but technological improvements have enabled scientists to detect more of them as they occur.
  10. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.81 · Martian skies and sunsets resembled Earth's hundreds of millions of years ago
  11. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.70 · Mars once had oceans and a thick atmosphere
  12. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.26 · Thunderquakes—seismic waves created when lightning strikes the ground—have enabled scientists to image underground environments near Earth's surface by detecting vibrations along subterranean fiber-optic cables.
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US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow +1.0%, Nasdaq -0.0%) on strong earnings reports for Hasbro, E
  1. 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
  2. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The S&P 500, managed by the same company, is another major stock index
  3. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Investors rely on the S&P 500 as a benchmark for the state of the economy
  4. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · The Dow now tracks 30 major US companies across various industries
  5. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.30 · In late 2025, the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 made up more than 40% of the index's total value
  6. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.15 · The Dow remains a shorthand for America's economic health
  7. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Why does the stock market matter?
  8. 0.44 · 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.
  9. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
  10. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.13 · Earnings season—the time period at the end of each quarter when many public companies release their earnings reports—offers a chance for investors and Wall Street analysts to evaluate how a wide range of companies are performing at once.
  11. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.50 · S&P Global, the company that makes the S&P 500, is listed on the S&P 500
  12. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · Retail investing by the numbers
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Pending-home sales drop to lowest level since 2001 due to 7.3% decline in September, per new monthly data; sal
  1. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.62 · See how 30-year fixed mortgage rates have changed over time—from a 1980s peak of roughly 18%, to hovering around 3% during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  2. 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.39 · US homeownership rates declined from the start of the Great Recession through 2016.
  3. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.24 · Before the Great Recession, lax requirements to get a mortgage resulted in mass defaults that left nearly 19 million homes vacant.
  4. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.54 · See the annual income required to purchase a typical three-bedroom home in each state as of 2025, based on a 10% down payment, a 6.65% interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage, and a 30% income-to-housing cost threshold.
  5. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.21 · How interest rates affect homebuying
  6. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.55 · Subprime lending practices, which fueled the housing bubble, surged after 2000.
  7. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · Enter your ZIP code to see its median income, median home value, and how affordable a typical home is there.
  8. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.55 · The rare, so-called 'assumable' mortgage is landing homebuyers a 3% rate.
  9. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.59 · Construction of small, affordable starter homes has decreased 75% since the 1970s.
  10. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.21 · Historically, borrowing money from other people to purchase property was common until private financing companies—primarily building and loan associations—stepped in to offer mortgages to buyers.
  11. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.23 · 57% of future homebuyers plan to put down less than the recommended 20% on a house
  12. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.08 · In 2023, the US money supply fell at its fastest rate since the 1930s
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Braze shares soar 51.7% following Salesforce's announcement that it agreed to acquire the marketing software c
  1. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.11 · Blackstone acquired a majority stake in Bumble's former parent company in 2019 ahead of the dating app's IPO
  2. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · Bumble's valuation peaked at roughly $13B around the time of its 2021 IPO
  3. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.08 · Whitney Wolfe Herd's return as CEO boosted Bumble's declining stock price
  4. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.29 · Listen to a 2026 interview where Bumble's CEO said its stock is down 96% since its IPO 'for no reason'
  5. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.48 · The world's 50 most valuable private companies
  6. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.32 · The 'big bang' of the dot-com era: Netscape's stock price doubled on the day of its initial public offering
  7. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.31 · Worth more than $14T, Silicon Valley may be getting too expensive for future founders.
  8. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.21 · WellHub is a startup serving roughly 4 million people in 11 countries, providing broad wellness benefits to employees
  9. 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · In 2023 and the first half of 2024, Berkshire Hathaway bought back more than $12B of its own stock
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Italy deploys 500 troops to Milan amid unrest and looting over rising fuel prices, cost of living
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The UK will deploy fighter jets to Saudi Arabia to help protect cities and critical infrastructure from attack
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Elon Musk personally ordered last week's Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, new report finds
  1. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.41 · Tech giants like SpaceX and Meta are increasingly behaving like sovereign powers
  2. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · Nonstop posting by Elon Musk provides calculated political and brand messaging
  3. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Elon Musk reshaped Twitter into X with bold moves and polarizing decisions
  4. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.11 · Treating X like a product instead of a public space obscures deeper issues
  5. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · Listen to a podcast that explains why Elon Musk is creating a company town called 'Snailbrook' for SpaceX and some of his other companies in Bastrop, Texas, a small community roughly 45 minutes outside of Austin.
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President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff flies to Russia after meeting with Ukrainian President Vo
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Homecoming king gives his crown and sash to runner-up, a student with Down syndrome
  1. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.33 · Six-year-old boy in wheelchair surprises his family by walking at his graduation
  2. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.11 · Teen who walked 6 miles to graduation receives college scholarship on the spot
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The key to curing arthritis may be regrowing a knee.
  1. 0.70 · explainers · keep 0.33 · Limb regeneration research may lead to treatments for arthritis
  2. 0.54 · curiosity · keep 0.64 · Kangaroos evolved thick knee cartilage to absorb shock, a feature that scientists are investigating for potential human arthritis treatment and prevention strategies.
  3. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.25 · Five advancements in arthritis research
  4. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.68 · Watch real knee surgery footage to see what arthritis looks like up close.
  5. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.62 · Visualizing a joint under attack from rheumatoid arthritis
  6. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Researchers are investigating how altering the gut microbiome may influence the development of rheumatoid arthritis, which is an autoimmune disease.
  7. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Explore the basics of arthritis in this 1440 Original video with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Nick Golinvaux.
  8. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.62 · Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir suffered from arthritis in the 1800s when there were no treatments, and eventually had such limited hand function that he painted with brushes placed in his mouth.
  9. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.11 · Diagnosis and treatment of hip and knee osteoarthritis
  10. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.17 · Arthritis is an umbrella term for various conditions that cause joint pain, including osteoarthritis, inflammatory arthritis, posttraumatic arthritis, and septic (infectious) arthritis.
  11. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.16 · Late-stage clinical trials indicate that a common arthritis drug may be a promising treatment for a leading cause of hair loss.
  12. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.70 · There is no cure for arthritis, which includes more than 100 separate joint pain and stiffness conditions.
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Salaries needed to buy a home in 50 US cities.
  1. 0.70 · news-in-context · keep 0.58 · The salary needed to buy a home in the US
  2. 0.58 · news-in-context · keep 0.54 · See the annual income required to purchase a typical three-bedroom home in each state as of 2025, based on a 10% down payment, a 6.65% interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage, and a 30% income-to-housing cost threshold.
  3. 0.54 · news-in-context · keep 0.32 · The average monthly mortgage payment in the US costs 38% more than monthly rent
  4. 0.52 · news-in-context · keep 0.53 · In some expensive US cities, a $100K salary hardly offers a comfortable living
  5. 0.52 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · Enter your ZIP code to see its median income, median home value, and how affordable a typical home is there.
  6. 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · Some say a $100,000 salary can’t buy the American dream
  7. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.27 · Housing prices have skyrocketed over the last 50 years
  8. 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · See how many days of work it takes to afford a monthly mortgage in each US state, with the US average being 14 days.
  9. 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.63 · States with the most million-dollar homes
  10. 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.58 · What a $100K salary is worth in different US cities
  11. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.67 · The income needed to be middle class in every US state
  12. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.58 · See a chart that shows how the average American spends their annual earnings, with almost half of all American consumer spending going toward transportation and housing.
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... and the 10 best cities for renters in 2026.
  1. 0.49 · experiences · keep 0.55 · The world's 10 best places to live
  2. 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.64 · The 20 best small US towns for retirement
  3. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.38 · New York was the most expensive city to rent a three-bedroom apartment in as of 2025
  4. 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.66 · The best places to visit in 2024
  5. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · Roughly 10% of US apartments were owned by private equity firms as of 2025.
  6. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.62 · America's happiest cities in 2023
  7. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · Underused post-pandemic offices often can't be turned into apartment buildings due to zoning laws.
  8. 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.56 · Evaluating the world’s 'smartest' cities
  9. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.39 · Visualize the world's top 20 most expensive real estate markets.
  10. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.34 · DC has the highest share of low-income renters on housing assistance in the country
  11. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.59 · Seven of America's cheapest and safest towns are in Ohio
  12. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.69 · The 10 best US states to retire in, ranked
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Why you should turn your walk into a color hunt.
  1. 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.81 · Your brain can't reliably recall colors—test your skills here
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How to save money on holiday travel.
  1. 0.55 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · Read about 'skiplagging,' a money-saving travel hack.
  2. 0.48 · experiences · keep 0.32 · While planning a vacation, it can be advantageous to avoid the peak tourism season at your destination.
  3. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · A 2024 report found that the average American vacation costs nearly $2K per person.
  4. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.68 · Experts argue some frugal habits—like driving farther for cheaper gas—aren't worth it
  5. 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.63 · Many 'cheap' retirement destinations contain hidden costs
  6. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.50 · Are hotels cheaper than Airbnbs?
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The top baby names of 2026.
  1. 0.59 · news-in-context · keep 0.57 · Most popular baby names in the US by year
  2. 0.56 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · The most popular American baby names by decade
  3. 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.65 · Explore the rise (and fall) of baby names over time
  4. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · In the US, 3.6 million babies were born in 2023
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... plus the trends that will influence names in 2027.
  1. 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · Striking demographic trends from 2022
  2. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.49 · Eight demographic trends to watch
  3. 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.65 · Explore the rise (and fall) of baby names over time
  4. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · The most popular American baby names by decade
  5. 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.57 · Most popular baby names in the US by year
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Looking for a new hobby? Take this quiz.
  1. 0.71 · experiences · keep nan · Take an in-depth quiz that suggests what hobby you should pick up based on your desires, budget, availability, and more.
  2. 0.51 · experiences · keep 0.63 · Are you burned out? Take this quiz
  3. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.73 · Take a brain health quiz developed by Harvard researchers and others to better understand your age-related brain disorder risks.
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Meet the students pushing to "re-peel" Wall Street's obscure onion ban.
  1. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.77 · 'The Great Onion Corner:' Hear how short-selling onions ended with a ban on onion futures
  2. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.64 · How a Seattle scenester pranked The New York Times with ridiculous grunge 'slang'
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