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A pharmaceutical empire worth half a trillion dollars cannot be bought, sold, or truly owned—and that structural oddity may be the only thing protecting it from becoming something far more dangerous. Read more ›
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On 30 June 2025 the WHO Commission on Social Connection reported that about one in six people worldwide are affected by loneliness, and that it is linked to more than 871,000 deaths every year. That works out to roughly 100 an hour. A quick note before going further: we are not clinicians or psychologists, and ... Read more Read more ›
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The architects of AI's most powerful systems face a humbling limitation: they cannot fully explain their own creations' reasoning, even when they understand every line of code. Read more ›
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How a Scottish vet's improvised rubber tube — built in a Belfast garden shed to stop his son's cycling headaches in 1887 — became the passive suspension system every wheeled vehicle on Earth still uses. Read more ›
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Olympus Mons on Mars is 22 kilometres tall and 600 kilometres wide, with slopes so shallow that a person standing on it would see only flat ground to the horizon. The geometry of the largest volcano in the solar system defeats human perception. Read more ›
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The settlement freezes a pivotal moment in AI law: Anthropic avoids a jury trial while a controversial fair-use precedent survives unchallenged. Read more ›
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The brain's underlying capacity to concentrate has not measurably declined, but the willingness to stay with anything slow has. What people call distraction is closer to a quiet erosion of tolerance, and the film is the honest test. Read more ›
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Faces can be reassembled in the mind. Voices cannot. The research on sensory memory explains why the bereaved cling to old voicemails long after a parent is gone — and why that instinct is not pathological but protective. Read more ›
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The U.S. and Iran are locked in an undeclared war that neither side wants to openly acknowledge, even as American troops die and Iranian missiles fly. Read more ›
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The gaming industry's AI reckoning isn't about replacing workers—it's about eliminating the rungs on the ladder that once led there. Read more ›
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Some forms of unhappiness do not stop a man getting to work on time. They do not empty his calendar, end his marriage or make him visibly fall apart. From the outside, he may look organised, dependable and successful. The difficulty is precisely that the visible machinery of his life keeps working. We are writers, ... Read more Read more ›
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The deepest regrets aren't about wrong choices—they're about the versions of ourselves we never allowed to exist. Read more ›
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The pile of unread books next to the bed isn't a failed reading list — it's a small architecture of objects doing the emotional work of ending the day. Here's what psychologists understand about why we keep the same books nearby for years without ever finishing them. Read more ›
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There is a mental image most of us reach for without thinking. Loneliness looks like an elderly person in a quiet house, the phone that rarely rings, the empty chair across the table. It is the picture behind a lot of well-meaning charity campaigns and a lot of family worry. And research suggests, it’s not ... Read more Read more ›
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In 1900, Greek sponge divers took shelter from a storm off Antikythera and surfaced with a corroded lump that turned out to be a hand-cranked bronze computer built around 100 BC — capable of predicting eclipses and tracking the Olympic calendar, with nothing comparable appearing again for 1,400 years. Read more ›
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In the driest desert on Earth, weather stations have recorded no rainfall for centuries — yet a Pacific fog called camanchaca sustains lichen colonies that drink from mist alone. Read more ›
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The vagus nerve is a two-way road with badly unbalanced traffic. Read more ›
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We sort our adult friendships into secret categories: the crisis companion, the pleasure friend, the one you've outgrown—and rarely do they overlap. Read more ›
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The Clarion-Clipperton Zone contains more cobalt, nickel, manganese, and copper than every land-based reserve combined. After 150 years untouched, commercial extraction is now measured in months, not decades — and the science needed to regulate it is still being gathered. Read more ›
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