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US-Russia Relations Thaw
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.07 · Ukraine's pro-Russian President halted an EU deal in 2013, leading to a mass protest movement
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Internet Insecurities
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.62 · Linux and other open-source software can still be safe and secure because they enable many individuals to actively monitor and review publicly available source code.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.73 · In 2018, it took about 2.3 years to develop a way to exploit a software bug for malicious purposes, but as of 2026, AI tools have reduced this time to about 20 hours.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Minor technology failures can spiral into massive internet outages
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.33 · Explore a list of bug bounty programs, which pay ethical hackers for finding vulnerabilities in computing systems.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Your device can become infected with malware by simply browsing the internet
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · As many as 500 million smart devices worldwide come preinstalled with malware that lets strangers use a person's internet connection.
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.75 · Security technician hacks a voting machine to reveal its vulnerabilities
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.30 · Smart cities without strong cybersecurity can leave utilities extremely vulnerable
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Transgender Inmate Rights Upheld
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.07 · The government has said Title IX does not protect transgender athletes or apply to athlete pay
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.05 · Courts have blocked the Trump administration's 2025 executive order limiting birthright citizenship
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.17 · The Supreme Court has greatly expanded executive power in recent years
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.08 · The Supreme Court limited federal judges' power to issue nationwide injunctions in 2025
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · Experts believe a Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship is likely in 2026
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.15 · Roe v. Wade recognized a constitutional right to abortion until Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned it
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Chesapeake Bay fishermen recover more than 24,000 abandoned traps, saving tens of thousands of marine animals.
- 0.49 · experiences · keep 0.30 · What revisiting a 1979 experiment reveals about ecosystem recovery after deep-sea mining
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.41 · Thanks to digitized archives, shipwreck hunters can now do in a day the research that once took them at least a week or two.
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.81 · To fight invasive species, some people have harvested them to produce useful materials that can be sold for a profit.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.45 · Founder of The Ocean Cleanup explains the case for cleaning oceans
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.77 · Decommissioned oil rigs have been repurposed into artificial reefs that serve as nursery habitats for fish, corals, sponges, and other invertebrates in the decades since their installation.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.06 · Ten thousand mink got loose in Ohio
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.74 · Fish populations in the Great Barrier Reef have increased after installing waterproof speakers on the ocean floor that played recordings of sounds from healthy coral reefs.
- 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.45 · Watch the destructive force of bottom trawling on marine ecosystems
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.87 · Whale falls—dead whales that have fallen to the ocean's floor—can provide enough food to spawn a local ecosystem of deep-sea organisms that lasts for decades.
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US women's gymnastics team earns silver at World Championships, ending a winning streak dating back to 2011 as
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.29 · Why the US women's soccer team has been so dominant for three decades
- 0.47 · longform · keep 0.27 · The undefeated 1996 Olympic squad is one of the greatest teams ever
- 0.47 · longform · keep 0.30 · The story of the 1996 Women's Olympic Dream Team
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.55 · Brandi Chastain, the star of the 1999 US win over China in the 1999 Women's World Cup, was a last-second choice to take the penalty kick that sealed the victory.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.29 · Title IX helped push women’s soccer to the world stage
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.23 · The history of the Women's World Cup
- 0.41 · longform · keep 0.78 · Athletes are captured in moments of victory and defeat in 6 powerful sports images
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"Glee" will return with a reboot on Hulu and Disney+, reviving the Emmy-winning musical dramedy that ran for s
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Maryland fires football coach Mike Locksley after a 2-5 start to the season; his tenure included a 39-54 recor
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Roughly one in four people diagnosed with depression are believed to have a newly identified "circadian" subty
- 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Circadian rhythm disruption can influence various mental health disorders, including schizophrenia, anxiety, and bipolar disorder.
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.44 · Social jetlag—differing weekend and weekday schedules—is physiologically similar to jet lag
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.35 · The design of a psychiatric ward in Norway aims to integrate more circadian rhythm-friendly lights as part of its treatment protocols for conditions including psychosis, severe depression, and more.
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.30 · Studies suggest when you sleep is as important as how much you get, and syncing with your circadian rhythms may lead to less fatigue and improved long-term health outcomes
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.78 · See how antidepressants—used by roughly 1 in 10 Americans—were discovered.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.35 · Women are four times as likely to be diagnosed with seasonal depression
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.35 · Parasites have circadian rhythms, too
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.28 · Mixed reality technologies may help treat depression
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.16 · Read Norman Rosenthal's original 1984 paper describing SAD
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.68 · Depression changes the brain, causing distinct structural alterations visible on brain scans, but effective treatment can eventually make a depressed brain resemble a healthy one.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.36 · JJ Schildkraut theorized depression is linked to brain chemical imbalances—in 1965
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.38 · Roughly 10% of the world has SSAD—SAD's milder, nonclinical cousin
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Two-drug combination shows promise for preventing premature births by slowing down the immune clock of pregnan
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.19 · Artificial wombs and preterm births: an overview
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.67 · Using artificial wombs to improve preterm infant health outcomes
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.53 · Gut microbiome rewrites may help reduce allergies
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.21 · Combining two cancer drugs increased the life space of mice by 30%
- 0.41 · 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.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.20 · 3-parent baby approach may help women with infertility
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.46 · Mifepristone, approved in 2000, is used to end early pregnancies
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Macaque monkeys who live through a deadly disease outbreak appear to avoid potentially contaminated food, offe
- 0.59 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · Scientists seeking to understand how food aversions work traced the literal gut reactions linking gut distress signals to neural replays of what ill mice ate.
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.37 · Chimpanzees are dying from human colds
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · At one point in the 20th century, more than a million Americans had pet monkeys
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · Researchers have found that various monkeys have pet-like relationships with other species.
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.28 · Wild chimpanzees have been spotted with leprosy lesions
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.56 · Using mosquitoes to vaccinate bats could curb the spread of deadly diseases.
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.64 · Charles Darwin studied goose bumps by scaring zoo animals in London with a stuffed snake
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.54 · Scientists can suck animal DNA from the air
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.40 · Even in recent history, adaptations to the environment drove human evolution
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · Bats have evolved to carry viruses without getting sick
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.09 · Scientists may have discovered why gene-edited pig kidneys are rejected in humans
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.46 · Watch how viruses like Ebola can spill over from animals to humans—and vice-versa.
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US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.6%, Dow +0.7%, Nasdaq +1.1%), boosted by 7.8% jump in SpaceX shares;
- 0.64 · 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.
- 0.62 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Millions of Americans will be invested in SpaceX because of the fast-tracked process to list SpaceX on the NASDAQ 100, and, subsequently, the index funds that track it.
- 0.56 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · See how SpaceX compares to history's other largest IPOs.
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.09 · SpaceX's S-1 or 'prospectus' revealed many previously unknown details about the company, including its unprofitability despite doing $18.7B in revenue in 2025, exactly how many voting shares Elon Musk will have in the company (roughly 85%), and more.
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.21 · See Bloomberg's continuously updated Billionaire Index
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.20 · Overcoming industry skeptics, SpaceX provides low-cost, high-publicity spaceflights
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.48 · The world's 50 most valuable private companies
- 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.49 · Many of the top companies in the US by market cap began as tech startups
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.29 · The Nasdaq's 'Magnificent 7' companies are responsible for roughly 40% of the Nasdaq 100 index's gains, while the remaining 93 companies account for the other 60%.
- 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.21 · A quick guide to everything SpaceX
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · More than 650 companies went public in the US in 1996
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New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay the state $25B for deceiving users about its data privacy practices on Fac
- 0.58 · explainers · keep 0.08 · Meta's acquisition strategy for Instagram and WhatsApp led to a 5-year-long antitrust lawsuit
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.09 · Temu was ordered to pay a $2M fine for alleged FTC violations
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.23 · The majority of Meta's revenue comes from advertising
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.14 · Meta's internal documents show that though the company publicly plays down Instagram's harms, its own research found that Instagram has promoted mental health issues for teens.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.17 · Meta Platforms Inc., which owns both Facebook and Instagram, is the largest social media company in the world.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.20 · By 2022, Meta was betting strongly on a metaverse strategy for its products
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.42 · Mark Zuckerberg views Meta as a technology company—not a social media company
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.06 · Facebook was sued for $150 billion over the violence against Rohingya refugees
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Energy Department plans to loan up to 315,000 barrels of oil from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, mark
- 0.55 · news-in-context · keep 0.74 · The US stores hundreds of millions of oil barrels in caves along the Texas-Louisiana coast
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.27 · The 1973 oil embargo by OPEC inspired advances in alternative energy technology
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · The US shipped nearly 4 billion barrels of oil abroad in 2024
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · A visit to the Federal Helium Reserve, which once supplied up to 30% of US helium
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.38 · Oil shocks, war, and the 1970s crisis that remade American energy and economics
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · The story of the first commercial US oil well and why crude oil is measured in barrels
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.33 · 1970s U.S. energy crisis sparked waves of green innovation
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.23 · OPEC's 1973 embargo sparked the first global energy shock.
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.65 · Hear Steve Ballmer explain how US gas prices are affected by the global price of oil.
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.76 · Understanding why the US can't use its own crude oil and depends on global markets
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.29 · The recorded history of crude oil use dates back about 5,000 years, with the Babylonians using it to waterproof their boats and as mortar in the construction of structures.
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · The US exported more crude oil and petroleum products than it imported in 2025
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US orders departure of some diplomatic staff, families from Saudi Arabia amid threat of Houthi attacks
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Israeli military reportedly detains dozens of Americans, including Democratic politician Brad Lander, in the W
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.18 · View a timeline of Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank.
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Chemical tank explodes in Toledo, Ohio, leading to evacuations and shelter-in-place orders; the tank contained
- 0.56 · news-in-context · keep 0.12 · The East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment explained
- 0.46 · longform · keep 0.63 · The Love Canal disaster exposed the dangers of buried toxic waste
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Pope Leo XIV will not need further lung cancer treatment, his doctors say, maintaining the cancer was localize
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.15 · Lung cancer advances are making a big difference
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Los Angeles once again crowned America's rattiest city.
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.80 · Los Angeles once suffered some of the worst smog on Earth
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.75 · LA used to have one of the best mass transit systems in the country
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.64 · How LA brought water to its booming population
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Are you cut out for the sloth life? Take the test.
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See ordinary objects look extraordinary under a microscope.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.16 · The secret lives of cells
- 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.42 · View a gallery of diatoms—algae surrounded by glass-like shells—captured via microscope.
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.68 · Explore 3D models of some of the most dangerous viruses, allowing us to understand these and other pathogens in new ways.
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.41 · View the fluorescently stained internal structures of a tardigrade
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.86 · Some organisms are composed of a single cell visible to the naked eye
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.62 · Stunning up-close photos of animal eyes
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The mysterious dancing plague that swept through Europe in 1518.
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.42 · Europe's first recorded influenza pandemic swept the continent in 1580
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.54 · Volcanoes in the 1340s likely helped trigger the Black Death
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.67 · Volcanic activity may have triggered the Black Death by spewing gases that led to crop failures in Europe, thus forcing the import of grain ships with plague-infested fleas.
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.60 · The bubonic plague spread in three waves over 600 years
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.30 · Measles reached global transmission during the 15th- and 16th-century Columbian exchange
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.16 · The virus was officially described for the first time in 1789
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · Human records of influenza stretch back more than two millennia
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · Human records of influenza stretch back more than two millennia
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.58 · How royal panic led to Europe's deadliest witch hunts
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.76 · Play 17th-century death roulette
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · The word 'influenza' comes from a 15th-century Italian belief in the stars
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The creepiest urban legend from every US state.
- 0.58 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · The coolest ghost towns in every US state
- 0.53 · longform · keep 0.76 · See if your city hosts one of the most haunted places in the United States.
- 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · Check out the 50 weirdest roadside attractions in the US, from Alabama's Unclaimed Baggae Center to Wyoming's Elkhorn Arch.
- 0.48 · longform · keep 0.30 · Slenderman is the most infamous example of creepypasta
- 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.81 · Visit these offbeat attractions in each US state
- 0.47 · longform · keep 0.60 · Ghost stories across cultures often trace back to traumatic events
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.75 · The best beach in every US state
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.68 · Where to celebrate Halloween in the US
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · Mapping the world records held by each US state
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · America's most haunted restaurants
- 0.42 · longform · keep 0.71 · The story of serial killer Ed Gein who inspired pop culture
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.59 · The wildest cases of election fraud in US history
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Who is Gen Z's "six degrees of Kevin Bacon"?
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- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.49 · Some Gen Z men are obsessed with ‘American Psycho’
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What are the odds we're not alone in the universe?
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · Statistically speaking, aliens likely exist, but we still haven't found any evidence of them
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Universes with stronger dark energy may be more common than ours
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.59 · In a standard deck of 52 cards, shuffling produces one of approximately 8.07 × 10⁶⁷ potential card orders—a number about as large as the number of atoms in the Milky Way.
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · There may be as many as 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.41 · How many galaxies are there? (Hint: a lot)
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.63 · The entire observable universe in one map
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.70 · About 85% of the matter in the universe is dark matter—an invisible substance that only interacts with its surroundings through gravity.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Universal limit to technological development may prevent finding alien civilizations
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · Quantum mechanics-based technology may explain the Fermi paradox
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.79 · One theory for why we haven't discovered aliens is that they haven't been born yet
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.76 · Most of the observable universe's volume consists of voids and supervoids—enormous regions of space with little to no galaxies, stars, or light.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.82 · The universe expands by stretching space itself, not into anything beyond it
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Reese's reveals the best places in the US to go trick-or-treating.
- 0.60 · news-in-context · keep 0.68 · Where to celebrate Halloween in the US
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.54 · UNICEF collects donations for children at Halloween
- 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.78 · Maryland residents spend the most money on Halloween candy in the country, averaging $67.95 on average per resident.
- 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.29 · Halloween spending is expected to reach $13.5B in the United States in 2026.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · The coolest ghost towns in every US state
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.37 · Here's how much money Americans spend on Halloween
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.69 · The best US states for fall apple-picking
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · Check out the 50 weirdest roadside attractions in the US, from Alabama's Unclaimed Baggae Center to Wyoming's Elkhorn Arch.
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Lay's wants you to eat Thanksgiving dinner in chip form.
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · This is not a chip
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.28 · Fast-casual restaurant Chili's is experiencing a resurgence, with its parent company recently reporting a nearly 32% increase in sales, thanks to passionate Gen Z fans on TikTok.
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · Ranking the best fast food in America
- 0.40 · experiences · keep 0.75 · Reexamine the Thanksgiving story through this interactive game
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.73 · Latkes, or fried potato pancakes, are eaten on Hanukkah to honor the miracle of the lasting oil
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