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The Wind in the Willows Review: A Cozy Classic for All Ages
Girl with a Pearl Earring: What Science Found Under the Paint
Ideas & Opinions
Ideas & Opinions
Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? A Cup of Water Says Yes
Physicist Kostya Trachenko showed that how runny a liquid can be is set by fundamental constants – adding a second, separate fine-tuning requirement for life beyond the classic stellar one.
Nobel Prizes Week: This Week in Science (Oct 5-11, 2026)
All three Nobel science prizes, the most distant radio burst ever, Webb’s weather on a failed star, a blood proteome atlas, and the peanut study: the week in science.
Exoplanet Weather: Webb Watches Clouds Shift on a Distant World
Webb watched water clouds thicken and thin on WISE 0855, the coldest known brown dwarf: the first weather report from beyond our solar system.
Fast Radio Bursts, Explained: The Farthest Signal Ever Caught
A millisecond flash of radio waves from 10 billion years ago is the most distant fast radio burst ever seen, and it lit up the invisible matter between galaxies.
Mirror Molecules, Explained: The 2026 Chemistry Nobel
Your hands are mirror images. So are many molecules of life. The 2026 chemistry Nobel went to the two chemists who taught reactions to pick one.
Business
Business
Service Reviews vs Official Records: What Stars Miss
Star ratings for nursing homes, childcare and adventure flights often ignore the official enforcement file. Shawn Redd shows why records matter more than reviews.
AI Dashboards: Don’t Let Them Drive Corporate Strategy
Real-time AI executive dashboards can trap leaders in micromanagement. Curated latency keeps strategy on the long horizon.
Interviews
Interviews
The Train Doodle That Became Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday Mascot
Jonathan Ferreira’s commute doodle became Baby Globe, the official mascot of Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary. Here is how a stylus sketch travelled from a BART train to millions of screens.
Chabacano Poetry: A New Anthology in Asia’s Spanish Creole
Editor Jerome Herrera on Sombra y Luz, a new anthology of Chabacano poetry from Zamboanga, and the debate over how Spanish Asia’s only Spanish-based creole should sound.
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Ten Minutes of Daily Exercise May Unlock Deeper Sleep
You don’t need long workouts to sleep better. A new study suggests that moving a little every day — even ten minutes — is linked to deeper, more restorative sleep.
Cats and Happiness: What a 93-Nation Study Found
A 93-nation study links national cat density to subjective well-being, but the cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii points the other way – and the authors warn against individual-level conclusions.
Environment
Environment
Giant Fungus “D-Rex”: New Species from Chinese Forests
A giant fungus nicknamed D-rex has been found in Yunnan, China: at 50 centimetres tall it is the largest fruiting body ever recorded in its phylum – and it belongs to a brand-new family of fungi.
Giant Fungus “D-Rex”: New Species from Chinese Forests
A giant fungus nicknamed D-rex has been found in Yunnan, China: at 50 centimetres tall it is the largest fruiting body ever recorded in its phylum – and it belongs to a brand-new family of fungi.
The Forested Floodplains of Congaree National Park
From space, the meandering Congaree River and its old channels paint the forest in contrasting shades of green. NASA explains how floods sustain giant trees.
Saving the Seas: What Works (and Why it Matters)
From plastic pollution to damaged coral reefs, the ocean is in trouble, but there is hope. A team looked at 217 happy-ending stories from around the world.
Beef Production in Brazil Has Been the Largest Driver of Global Deforestation in Recent Decades
Cattle pastures drove 41% of global deforestation in recent decades, and one-quarter of the total happened to make way for Brazilian beef — mostly eaten in Brazil.
Art & Culture
Art & Culture
The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Plant That Grew Sheep
For centuries Europeans debated a plant that grew woolly lambs. Thom Sliwowski traces the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary from Mandeville to fern roots and cotton.
The Shanidar Neanderthal: A 75,000-Year-Old Spear Wound
A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave carries a spear wound through the shoulder blade — possibly the oldest wooden-spear kill ever found.
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