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Apr 15 2026SCIENCE

Building Green Materials with Smart AI

The world is running out of important minerals. Smelting these metals also adds a lot of carbon to the air and pollutes water. People need new ways to make materials that are good, cheap, easy to recycle and safe for the planet. Designing such materials is hard because many goals must be met at o

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Apr 15 2026FINANCE

Morgan Stanley Looks to Tokenize Wealth Management

Morgan Stanley’s chief financial officer said that the firm is moving toward a future where assets can be moved quickly on digital networks. He spoke about this during the company’s first‑quarter earnings call, suggesting that a “tokenized world” would let clients transfer both assets and liabilitie

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Apr 15 2026TECHNOLOGY

Quick Glow Mask: 10‑Minute Light Therapy for Everyday Skin

This new face mask looks more like a stylish pair of glasses than bulky tech gear, weighing only 110 grams so you barely notice it on your face. It eliminates the usual straps and wires, letting you use it while scrolling through emails or stretching without interruption. The mask uses light in t

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Apr 15 2026TECHNOLOGY

Sony’s New 3‑D Capture System Is Coming This Summer

Sony has announced a fresh line of tools that will let anyone build detailed 3‑D models from real objects, starting next summer. The package includes a phone app that works with Sony’s Alpha cameras, a cloud‑based service for turning photos into high‑quality 3‑D graphics, and a rendering plug‑in tha

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Apr 15 2026HEALTH

Hospital Power Struggles During COVID

The story of Portugal’s public hospitals in the pandemic shows how fights over authority can hurt learning and response. When the crisis hit, managers, doctors, and politicians all wanted control. Their clashes created a patchwork of power that made it hard for hospitals to act together. Beca

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Apr 15 2026POLITICS

Supreme Court’s Quick‑Fire Decisions: A Growing Concern

The U. S. Supreme Court has been moving faster and farther into cases that should first be handled by lower courts, a trend that one of its liberal justices has warned could damage the whole judicial system. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said this during a talk at Yale Law School, a meeting that

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Apr 15 2026POLITICS

PETA’s New Instagram Push: A Weird Mix of Veganism and Identity Labels

PETA’s youth wing, known as PETA2, has posted a controversial Instagram story that mixes animal rights with very specific identity and kink tags. The images look like AI‑generated prompts, asking for a “bisexual vegan boy, ” a “dom vegan girl, ” and a “submissive non‑binary vegan. ” The aim, accordi

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Apr 15 2026POLITICS

Power, Piety and the People: A Long‑Running Debate

The story of how church and state have clashed goes back more than a thousand years. In the 400s, a pope named Gelasius claimed that while kings ruled on earth, priests had the ultimate say because they promised eternal life. That idea didn’t settle things but it set a pattern that many later leader

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Apr 15 2026POLITICS

Celebrating 40 Years: A Legacy of Lesbian History in Barcelona

The story begins with a group of lesbians who, in the 1980s, created their own safe space in Barcelona. Over four decades, that place has seen political shifts, city changes, and the fading of many queer venues. Yet it kept going because everyone inside shared its own rules and cared for each other.

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Apr 15 2026CELEBRITIES

Former Assistant Takes Sterns to Court Over Workplace Claims

A former employee of Howard and Beth Stern has filed a new lawsuit against the radio duo, demanding at least $2. 5 million in damages and an order to void a non‑disclosure agreement she says was never signed. The plaintiff, Leslie Kuhn, first joined the team as an office manager in September 2022

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