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While headlines focused on prison politics, Cuba quietly released 51 people from its jails.

Cuba joins BRICS: Diaz-Canel attends the bloc's 17th summit in Rio de Janeiro, signaling the island nation's deepening ties with the emerging-market alliance.

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German firm’s new EV with 400 kW power reaches 0-62 miles in 3.8 seconds, offers fast charging

While everyone debated EV practicality, Porsche just solved the range-and-speed problem.

Porsche's new Cayenne S Electric delivers dual-motor performance between the base and turbo models, balancing efficiency with dynamic driving in one sleek package.

280 political parties line up for Haiti's first election in ten years.

A record 280 political parties rushed to register for Haiti's first general election in a decade, each betting they could help rescue their nation from crisis.

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Could an “Exercise Pill” Fight Depression? Scientists Want To Find Out

Scientists are chasing the molecules that make exercise heal the mind.

Scientists discovered how to trigger exercise's brain-boosting effects without moving a muscle—a breakthrough that could transform dementia treatment.

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Zambia's Presidents Rest in a Garden Built on Peaceful Power

A verdant cemetery in Lusaka's political heart holds the remains of Zambia's presidents—a testament to the nation's rare stability since independence, with seven peaceful power transitions and no successful coups.

While headlines fixate on Alzheimer's cures, this blood test quietly spots it years earlier.

Blood proteins could reveal Alzheimer's years before symptoms appear. Researchers found three proteins show telltale shape changes that track disease progression.

Teens are ditching vaping, and TikTok's biggest creators are showing how.

TikTok's biggest stars are hijacking the "Get Ready With Me" trend to fight vaping among teens—partnering with Truth Initiative to make quitting cool.

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Centaur-style robot adds two legs to help humans carry loads with 35% less effort

Watch humans carry heavy loads like they weigh nothing.

Chinese researchers have created a wearable robot that straps two mechanical legs to your back, turning you into a four-legged centaur that carries heavy loads while cutting walking energy in half.

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Depression may start with an energy problem in brain cells

Brain cells reveal why depression drains energy—and how to spot it earlier.

Depressed brains work harder at rest but falter under stress—a cellular energy paradox that could reshape how we treat depression.

While everyone watched the delays, NASA quietly fixed the leak—Moon mission back on track for April.

NASA cleared technical hurdles blocking its Artemis II Moon mission—now targeting early April for launch.

From hip-hop stages to parliament: Nepal's youngest leader rewrites the political playbook.

A rapper-turned-politician's four-year-old party just claimed a near two-thirds parliamentary majority in Nepal—a stunning political upset.

Artemis II astronauts return to the moon.

Humans are finally going back to the moon. NASA opens a six-day launch window April 1 from Kennedy Space Center—the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 ended in 1972.

Bob Rennie's 24-work gift expands what Canada's public can see of contemporary art.

Canada's top art collector Bob Rennie just handed the National Gallery 24 contemporary masterpieces—part of a staggering 284-work donation since 2012.

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Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?

Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?

Fluid pooling in the lungs and limbs, arrhythmias, sudden cardiac arrest—heart failure kills. Once treated with leeches, this incurable condition now demands modern medicine's best weapons.

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Family Welcomes Miracle Quadruplets Months After Learning They Likely Wouldn’t Survive

Watch four babies arrive after doctors said the odds were against them.

After years of heartbreak and multiple miscarriages, Megan Black finally got her positive pregnancy test—then an ultrasound revealed an astonishing surprise: quadruplets.

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Study finds livestock pushing lions away from shared rangeland in Kenya

Environment

Lions learn to share: How Kenya's herds are rewriting the rangeland rules

Africa's apex predator is now the hunted: Kenya's lions are learning to fear livestock, forcing an uneasy coexistence between pastoralists and the continent's most iconic predator.

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Chicago might buy its downtown intercity bus station

Business

Chicago reclaims its downtown bus hub before it vanishes

Chicago could rescue its crumbling intercity bus station from financial collapse—if the city agrees to buy it from its struggling owner.

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Scientists Solve a Long-Standing Chemistry Challenge With Light-Driven Catalysis

Science

Light unlocks rare molecular structures for medicine.

Light just cracked one of chemistry's toughest puzzles: making housane, a rare, ultra-strained molecule that could unlock new drugs. Scientists finally have a practical way to build it.

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Man’s unexplained beef with the solar system is keeping people laughing and learning

Science

Man’s unexplained beef with the solar system is keeping people laughing and learning

A New York man has made it his mission to roast the planets—and no celestial body is safe from his brutal critiques on Instagram.

Two brothers' homemade robot just shattered its own record

Two British brothers just smashed the Rubik's Cube robot record—their homemade machine solved it in 45.3 seconds, crushing the competition by 33 seconds.

The quiet guardians holding coastlines together—and storing carbon while they're at it.

Seagrass meadows are quietly becoming coastal armor against climate change. These underwater plants stop erosion, store carbon, and protect shorelines—making them nature's most underrated defense.

A robot in Munich just found your lost keys 30% faster than humans searching by hand.

German researchers built a "broomstick on wheels" robot that finds lost household items by combining AI language models with 3D mapping—a breakthrough in robotic search technology.

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This North Carolina restaurant just proved how easy it is to offer an 'austism-friendly' experience

One steakhouse just showed restaurants how to welcome everyone at the table.

Sensory overload makes dining out torture for autistic guests—until one restaurant owner decided to change that.

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St Aiden’s Church and Crypt in Bamburgh, England

A 7th-century beam still stands where Saint Aiden breathed his last.

A 7th-century timber beam still stands in Bamburgh Church—legend says Saint Aiden died leaning against it while spreading Christianity across Northumbria.

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Facebook Marketplace’s New Meta AI Tools Make Selling Faster and Easier

Business

Sellers on Facebook Marketplace now list items in minutes, not hours.

3.5 million daily listings. Facebook Marketplace has become the go-to hub for buying and selling everything from furniture to fashion—and Meta just made it smarter with AI.

How Led Zeppelin found their sound—and their name

Led Zeppelin didn't just define rock music—they invented the blueprint for stadium-shaking excess and mystical experimentation that still echoes today.

Supercomputers crack the code of reactor chaos.

Supercomputers are cracking the code of chaos to make nuclear reactors safer. Argonne researchers are ditching approximations for raw computing power to model turbulent flow—the key to a carbon-free future.

Readers are mapping their own 50-state journeys alongside mine

Readers' emails revealed the real adventure was already unfolding in living rooms, minivans, and even a sinking ship—before the author packed a single bag.

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Researchers Find a Surprising Long COVID Clue in Major Vitamin D Trial

Momentum

While everyone watched COVID's acute phase, vitamin D showed promise against long COVID.

Vitamin D failed to prevent COVID infection, yet emerging research suggests it may unlock a key to treating long COVID's debilitating symptoms.

A Nazi bunker becomes a gallery where art reclaims what history tried to erase.

A Nazi-era bunker built by forced laborers still looms over Berlin's upscale Reinhardtstrasse, a jarring concrete reminder amid elegant restaurants and boutiques.

Keisha Scarville's diaspora photographs earn Brooklyn Museum's $25,000 Uovo Prize

Photographer Keisha Scarville wins the Brooklyn Museum's $25,000 Uovo Prize for her powerful work exploring diaspora and shifting identities. Her work will be displayed on a Bushwick art storage facade.

What one Qatari mosque reveals about women's place in faith spaces.

Doha just opened the world's first mosque designed exclusively for women. The Al-Mujadilah Center, named after a Quranic figure meaning "She Who Discourses," will host worship, dialogue, and international summits.

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Jack Osbourne Welcomes Fifth Baby Girl and Her Name Will Melt Your Heart

How Jack Osbourne Named His Fifth Daughter After His Late Father

Jack Osbourne and Aree welcomed baby girl Ozzy Matilda on March 9, 2026—honoring late grandfather Ozzy Osbourne less than a year after his death.

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World’s first underground nuclear borehole drilling starts for US firm’s Gravity reactor

Rising Impact

Why Deep Fission is burying nuclear power a mile underground.

Deep Fission is drilling underground—literally. The California nuclear startup has begun construction on its first data acquisition well for a 15-megawatt reactor designed to operate a mile beneath Earth's surface.

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Fab 5 Freddy Shares His Top Five Recent Obsessions

Arts

While everyone debates art's future, Fab 5 Freddy reveals what actually captivates him right now.

Fab 5 Freddy, the graffiti artist who shaped hip-hop culture, reveals his latest creative obsessions in a candid new interview.

The factory robot that adapts faster than workers can switch shifts.

Chinese robotics firm XGSynBot just unveiled Z1, a wheeled humanoid robot that can seamlessly switch between factory workstations—equipped with breakthrough modular technology never seen before.

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200-lb inflatable camper airs up in 5 minutes to sleep 4 people