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Cancer cluster fears at Massachusetts high school
A Massachusetts high school will undergo environmental testing after several female teachers were diagnosed with breast cancer, prompting officials to probe a possible cancer cluster.
2026-06-04
Google’s mosquito bet on bacteria
Google’s Verily unit seeks a permit to release Wolbachia-infected, non-biting mosquitoes in California and Florida to cut West Nile virus transmission.
2026-06-04
The Exercise Pairing That Extends Life
A long-running cohort study reports that modest weekly strength training, when paired with consistent aerobic exercise, is linked to the lowest mortality risk.
2026-06-04
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Entertainment
Funny Women Rewrite The Rules Of May
Eighteen comedians and creators used one morbid boyfriend joke to dominate feeds, bending horror into shareable humor and resetting the tone of online relationships talk.
2026-05-31
Eye-Level Party Levels Every Guest
An Oakland event used custom foam platforms to equalize guests’ height, turning a casual party into a live experiment in status, posture and eye contact.
2026-05-04
Why Nintendo Keeps Super Mario Galaxy Movie Racing
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto argues the rapid pace of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie mirrors game design, trading character pauses for dense visual action to hold broad, impatient audiences.
2026-05-03
Animal
Technology
Google’s Dreambeans Turns Data Into Cartoons
Google’s Dreambeans mines activity in your account to auto-generate AI-illustrated narrative clips, raising fresh questions on consent, curation, and data visibility.
2026-06-04
Quiet Metaverse Exit At A Big Tech Giant
A quiet leadership shift has reshaped a major tech company’s Metaverse effort, as veteran executive Gabriel Aul retires and former Epic Games leader Saxs Persson takes control.
2026-06-04
Gemini Go quietly displaces Google Assistant
Gemini Go is replacing Google Assistant on Android Go phones, extending Assistant’s deprecation to entry-level devices and steering users toward Google’s broader Gemini ecosystem.
2026-06-04
Health
WHO says Ebola may have spread for months
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the Ebola outbreak in DRC may have started months earlier, giving the virus a head start even as response teams move to contain transmission.
2026-06-04
Ebola Pushes Into Islamic State Redoubt
Ebola has moved into a forest zone controlled by Islamic State-aligned fighters in Congo, blocking health access and deepening distrust in an already fragile response.
2026-06-04
WHO narrows Ebola case count in Congo
WHO has reduced the number of suspected Ebola cases in Congo, but health workers report weak surveillance, community mistrust, and fragile care capacity that keep the outbreak unstable.
2026-06-03
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Delicacy
ACGN
Maryland confirms imported measles case
Maryland health officials confirmed an imported measles case in a Baltimore-area resident who traveled abroad and are tracing contacts and urging MMR vaccination.
2026-04-20
Five surreal sci-fi anime for a Pragmata mood
Pragmata’s eerie, low-orbit isolation has clear cousins in five surreal sci-fi anime that mix cosmic dread, fragile humanity and brutal visual imagination.
2026-04-19
Capturing Affection Through Lenses
2024-04-03