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Federal Reserve Says Prediction Markets Are a Valuable Tool for Policymakers
A new report from the Federal Reserve indicates that prediction markets can be a valuable tool for researchers and policymakers…
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Scientists Found a Massive Lava Tube Hiding Beneath the Surface of Venus
Scientists may have found the first evidence of underground tunnels lurking beneath the surface of Venus, carved by the planet’s…
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Dive Into the Elusive World of Particles With the Global Physics Photowalk Finalists
Here’s something you rarely see so up close. The photograph above shows one of 18 optical modules inside KM3NeT, a…
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Tesla’s Conflict with a German Labor Union Is Getting Out of Hand
It’s an incident André Thierig, Tesla’s director of manufacturing for its German plant, called “truly beyond words!” A union representative…
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Tim Cook Reportedly Reassures Apple Employees That He Doesn’t Want His Friend Trump to Deport Them
On Thursday during an all-hands meeting at Apple, CEO Tim Cook spoke about lobbying to U.S. elected officials on behalf…
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Doom Overtakes 3 Very Different Planets, Earth Included, in This Eerie Sci-Fi Short Story
io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue.…
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SpaceX and xAI Are Merging Into a Very Silly-Sounding Conglomerate. Take It Seriously
SpaceX is acquiring xAI. Ever since this merger of two Musk companies became a rumor, crazy numbers like $1.5 trillion…
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The Success of ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Is Already Influencing HBO’s Other ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Plans
Ever since Game of Thrones came to its controversial end, HBO has had grandiose plans, in scope and scale, for what…
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NASA Has a New Estimate for Europa’s Ice Shell, and Whoa Is It Ever Thick
Europa, one of Jupiter’s 95 moons, is encased in a shell of water ice, and researchers have just re-estimated its…
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It Turns Out Crypto’s Stablecoin Adoption is Around 1% of Previous Estimates
Stablecoins were all the rage in 2025. The GENIUS Act provided much needed regulatory clarity for the dollar-pegged crypto tokens,…
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