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Paris’s bold Olympic promise to clean the River Seine.
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The driving sounds of EVs, explained by the designers who make them.
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We’re probably all listening to music too loudly, alas.
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But they’re right that something has changed in American cities.
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If high inflation hurts just about everyone, why can’t we have no inflation?
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We set out to solve why a forest in the middle of Uruguay looked like that — and wound up discovering something much bigger.
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AI is supposed to help militaries make precise strikes. Is that the case in Gaza?
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The debate over the Anthropocene epoch, explained.
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The (bad) options for Americans facing an emergency expense.
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Why we’re all paying so much more for streaming, and what we can do about it.
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“You never forget your first kiss … you always remember your first time in the shadow,” says one eclipse chaser.
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Yemen’s Houthis say they’re avenging Gaza. But there’s a lot more to it.
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There’s a reason so many of us don’t have enough retirement savings.
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Blame the Space Race (kind of).
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We don’t like the two-party system. So why do we have it?
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Space debris is a huge problem, but we can fix it.
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How artificial intelligence hides in plain sight.
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AI models are revolutionizing weather forecasts.
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The promise and pitfalls of using light to stop germs.
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Matte paintings have transformed movies for over 100 years. AI could be the next step in making them.
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How Republicans won Michigan, how they lost it, and what it all tells us.
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It’s not just you. Credit scores are confusing as hell.
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Inside Israel’s dual criminal justice system.
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Students and teachers grapple with the rise of the chatbots.
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Charting America’s homeownership problem.
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On satellite imagery, we spotted a village inside a strange crater in Madagascar. We set out to learn how it got there.
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A lot of today’s contests are edited and rigged. But it wasn’t always that way.
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How Xi Jinping became China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.
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Bats don’t just host deadly diseases — they can tolerate them shockingly well.
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Under extreme pressures, matter defies the rules of physics as we know it.
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And why brutalism dominates US college campuses.
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Why Palestinians in Gaza have suffered for decades.
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The Warren’s case files have helped create a shockingly successful horror universe.
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It’s time to redesign cities for climate change.
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Changing the diet of cows might help them release less methane.
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For decades, Israel has prioritized illegal settlement for Jewish Israelis in the West Bank.