The surprisingly strong case for feeling great about your coffee habit
There are few news subjects more reliably depressing than nutritional science.A glance at the headlines will tell you that sugar ...
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Some deaf children are hearing again because of a new gene therapy
In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There’s no reaction. His face does ...
Renewable energy just broke a 100-year-old streak
For more than a century, the world has run on coal.When Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street electrical station in Lower Manhattan ...
The simple question that could change your career
Devon Fritz had his midlife crisis a little early.He spent his 20s writing tax software, staying on track to hit ...
The man who bet against humanity — and lost
On February 9, 1970, Johnny Carson did something that would be unthinkable for a late night host today, or really ...
150 years ago, nine words changed the world
On March 10, 1876, a 29-year-old Scottish immigrant named Alexander Graham Bell sat in a modest laboratory at 5 Exeter ...
These reforms could transform criminal justice for people — and they cost almost nothing
The United States is in the middle of one of the most dramatic crime declines in its history — and ...
Americans spend less of their income on food than almost ever. Why doesn’t it feel that way?
Everything about the American economy right now feels weird. The hiring picture is weird; the stock market is weird; and ...
The quiet revolution that made your home, car, and wallet a lot safer
A few weeks back, in the run-up to Christmas, my family was doing what it always does during the holiday ...
The world just passed a surprisingly positive milestone on nuclear weapons
The post-war international order may be tearing apart at the seams and international law is increasingly looking like a polite ...
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