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• CuriousMars has a blue sunrise and cliffs scientists have waited years to reach.NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed wind-carved cliffs called yardangs in unusually vivid morning light. The image is beautiful, but the geology is the more interesting story: these rocks may preserve a missing chapter in Mount Sharp’s history.
• CultureHollywood just put Batman, Harry Potter, Star Trek, HBO, CNN and CBS under one roof.Paramount completed its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, creating Skydance, a media giant spanning two film studios, HBO, CBS, CNN, streaming services, sports and some of entertainment's biggest franchises.
• TechGoogle just signed for 3.6 gigawatts of power. AI is turning tech companies into energy companies.Google’s new Constellation Energy agreement covers 3,590 MW of power, including 890 MW of added nuclear capacity. The deal shows how AI competition is moving from chips and models into electricity, grids and long-term energy contracts.
• MoneyBrazil voted on Sunday. Markets voted on Monday.Flávio Bolsonaro led Brazil’s first-round presidential vote 47% to 45% over Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The next trading session, Brazilian stocks surged. The useful question is not which candidate markets ‘like’. It is which policy probabilities investors suddenly changed.
• MoneyA bond yield just hit a 24-year high. Why should anyone outside Wall Street care?The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield briefly touched 5.34%, its highest level since 2002. That number lives in the bond market, but its effects reach mortgages, business loans, government budgets and the price investors put on almost everything else.
• ExplainedTrillions of particles pass through you. Almost none notice you are there.Neutrinos are tiny, electrically neutral particles that interact so weakly with matter that they can pass through planets. That strange property makes them difficult to detect and unusually valuable for understanding the Sun, stars and extreme cosmic events.
• ExplainedWhat does the 1.5°C climate limit actually mean?The 1.5°C target is not a temperature any single day or country must stay below. It refers to long-term global average warming above the pre-industrial climate. Crossing it temporarily and staying above it permanently are different problems.
• CuriousTwo molecules can look like mirror images and behave like different drugs.Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work that made it possible to favor one molecular mirror image over another. That matters because biology can treat two nearly identical molecules very differently.
• MoneyWeight-loss drugs are becoming a snack-company problem.PepsiCo is already fighting inflation, weak snack volumes and investor pressure. GLP-1 drugs add a more structural question: what happens to a food business built around frequent snacking when some customers feel less hungry?
• CuriousTwo thousand ordinary people are helping restore a 240-million-year-old predator.A nearly six-metre Mastodonsaurus skeleton is being restored in a glass-walled laboratory in Warsaw with help from more than 2,000 trained volunteers. The project turns fossil preparation into public science without pretending the work is easy.
• TechGoogle may have to put ChatGPT and Perplexity beside Search. The fight is really about the default.UK regulators have proposed putting AI assistants on Android and Chrome search-choice screens, while publisher disputes are putting pressure on how Google uses and pays for content. The bigger shift is distribution: the next search war may be decided before anyone types a query.