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12.28.25
BUSINESS
The Dollar Is Facing an End to Its Dominance
BY KEYU JIN | 3-MINUTE READ
Questions around the reliability of the US greenback are dulling the luster of what was the world’s currency of trade. New, global alternatives are emerging.
POLITICS
Politics Is Fandom; Fascism Is Fanfic
BY MAKENA KELLY | 4-MINUTE READ
From Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to the US government’s “Halo” memes, fandom has become the defining language of US politics.
Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World
BY LAUREN GOODE | 4-MINUTE READ
The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive.
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SCIENCE
People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year
BY RITSUKO KAWAI | 2-MINUTE READ
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t.
THE BIG STORY
The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack
BY CLAIRE L. EVANS | 9-MINUTE READ
One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.
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