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During a US military operation in Venezuela, troops removed a sitting head of state, President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife Cilia Flores. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, Gavin Lee welc...
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Diarmuid Early won the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship. He has some Excel pointers for today's office workers. Diarmuid Ealry Diarmuid Early won first place in the 2025 Microsoft Excel World C...
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Netflix has had an interesting year. Its ad tier, introduced last year, has grown significantly, and its live TV initiative has expanded to include not only weird one-offs like hot-dog-eating grudge m...
Body composition analyses helped me track my progress in losing fat and gaining muscle. Julia Pugachevsky In 2025, I got 3 body composition analyses at the athletic club Life Time . The scans helped m...
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The Federal Reserve’s December dot plot revealed sharp divisions on 2026 rate cuts, with analysts predicting one to two cuts could shape crypto momentum....
Nature, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03756-4 The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months....
Last year, I had the great pleasure of attending the Games Industry Conference (GIC) in Poznań, Wielkopolska, where I sat in on a number of talks about game development and craft. In one of those talk...
Joshua Nelken-Zitser made sure to celebrate writing milestones with dinners and a vacation. Joshua Nelken-Zitser Joshua Nelken-Zitser researched and wrote an 80,000-word book in less than a year, whil...
Nature, Published online: 23 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10044-8 Author Correction: Rolling back human pluripotent stem cells to an eight-cell embryo-like stage...
Travelers are likely to experience delays at airports as airlines reduce their flight schedules by 10% during the shutdown. Grace Hie Yoon/Anadolu via Getty Images As a snowstorm heads toward the NYC ...
Entrepreneur Jocko Willink starts his day at 4:30 a.m., a habit he picked up in the Navy SEALs. Courtesy of Jocko Willink Jocko Willink, a retired Navy SEAL and Brazilian jiujitsu black belt, said he ...
Nature, Published online: 08 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00007-y A giant functional atlas of immune cells in a Chinese cohort reveals crucial differences with European and Japanese data sets....
Julie Levin Courtesy of Julie Levin Julie Levin used bartending to reset her career after a 2023 marketing layoff. She said bartending taught her resilience, humility, and the value of a positive atti...
Betty Boop made her debut as an anthropomorphic dog in Dizzy Dishes. | Image: Fleischer Studios Some years ago, I was writing a science fiction short story in which I wanted to incorporate verses from...
Frederick Baba, a trader at Jane Street and former Goldman Sachs partner. Courtesy of Goldman Sachs Former Goldman partner Fred Baba shared the goodbye note he sent colleagues. He left Goldman in 2023...
Nature, Published online: 31 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09864-5 Fermionic currents of opposing chirality can be spatially filtered without the need for a magnetic field using the quantum ge...