On February 28, a US Tomahawk missile struck a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing 168 people, most of them children. Amnesty International's investigation points to outdated intelligence, a failure to verify the target, and a potential war crime.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisThe Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that IEEPA does not authorize tariffs, striking down the cornerstone of Trump's trade policy and triggering the largest refund crisis in U.S. customs history. What follows is a legal and economic chain reaction still unfolding.
News & Analysis US Domestic PoliticsThe gut microbiome is real science with real clinical breakthroughs. It is also a multi-billion dollar industry where most products have never proven they do what their labels imply. Here is what the evidence actually supports.
Explainers Science & MedicineSatellites don't float in space. They fall toward Earth every second of every day. The trick is they move sideways so fast that the ground keeps curving away beneath them, turning a plunge into an endless loop.
Explainers Physics & EngineeringA major study of nearly 250,000 heart disease patients found the shingles vaccine cut serious cardiac events by 46% and deaths by 66% within a year. Combined with evidence on dementia, biological aging, and inflammation, the findings suggest the vaccine does far more than prevent a rash.
Explainers Science & MedicineProject Hail Mary starts as science fiction's most familiar fantasy: one brilliant person, alone in space, saving the world. Then it quietly argues that the fantasy was always the problem.
Culture LiteratureCookie consent banners were designed to protect your privacy. Instead, they became a system where the only way to stop being harassed about cookies is to surrender your data. The numbers behind the web's most absurd regulatory failure.
Digital Privacy News & AnalysisQuantum computers just proved they can outperform classical supercomputers on specific tasks. But what does "quantum advantage" actually mean, and how far are we from machines that change the world?
Explainers Physics & EngineeringA massive Swedish study found semaglutide users had 42% fewer psychiatric hospitalizations. The reason may reshape how we understand depression: not as a chemical imbalance, but as an inflammatory disease.
Explainers Science & MedicineThe central plot of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man draws from one of the most extraordinary true stories of World War II. Operation Bernhard was the largest counterfeiting operation in history, run from inside a concentration camp with stakes that threatened the entire British economy.
Culture Film & TVBacteria do not just survive antibiotics. They evolve past them, accumulate genetic workarounds, and reach a state where reversing resistance would require undoing multiple independent mutations at once. Here is how the ratchet works, and why it is so hard to turn back.
Explainers Science & MedicineNearly 99% of international internet traffic flows through submarine cables thinner than a garden hose, stretched across 1.7 million kilometers of ocean floor. Recent sabotage incidents reveal just how fragile the physical internet really is.
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