Some Microbiome Products Help Selected Ageing Outcomes, but Broad Anti-ageing Benefits Remain Unproven
Prebiotics and probiotics can help some specific outcomes in older adults, but there is no good evidence yet that prebiotics,…
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Amazon’s AI Chips Are a Cost Wedge Inside AWS, Not a Near-term Nvidia Replacement
Amazon’s AI-chip push matters first as an AWS pricing and deployment lever, not as a sudden replacement for Nvidia. The…
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SpaceX Is Overpaying Wildly for Cursor
SpaceX’s reported deal for the right to acquire Cursor at a $60 billion price looks drastically overvalued because it prices…
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Times Beach Became the Abandoned-town Case That Defined Superfund
Times Beach, Missouri is still the classic example of a town that had to be abandoned because dioxin contamination, amplified…
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The Milky Way Has a Thin Disk, a Thick Disk, and a Huge Halo
The Milky Way’s thin disk is about 700 light-years high, its thick disk is about 3,000 light-years high, and its…
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US Directive Suspends Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were suspended for all users on June 12, 2026 after the company said it…
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Historical Mysteries Are Past Events With Incomplete Evidence
A historical mystery is a past event, person, or claim that cannot yet be fully explained from the surviving evidence.Historiography…
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The Flynn Effect Has Slowed and in Some Places Reversed
The Flynn Effect is the long-run rise in average scores on standardized cognitive tests over the 20th century, and the…
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Ethyl Formate Gave the Milky Way Its Raspberries-and-rum Reputation
The Milky Way gets the “raspberries and rum” line because astronomers detected ethyl formate in a dust cloud near the…
