Month: September 2025

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The National Institutes of Health has launched a five-year, $37 million stillbirth consortium in a pivotal effort to reduce what it has called the country’s “unacceptably high” stillbirth rate. The announcement last week
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Problem Cannot Also Be the Cure Let me give you the bad news first: we’re doing another
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Did you know you can customize Google to filter out garbage? Take these steps for better search results, including adding my work at Lifehacker as a preferred source. It seems like iOS 26 just dropped, and yet, Apple is back at it with another update. As of Monday, iOS 26.1 is officially in beta testing,
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The carbon-capture-and-storage cement planet in Padeswood, Wales Padeswood CCS Commercial-scale carbon-capture systems for cement plants are now being deployed, raising hopes that one of the trickiest industrial sectors to decarbonise could finally be on the path towards net-zero emissions. The world’s first carbon-capture plant on a cement works has been up and running in Norway
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By Sam Machkovech On the eve of this year’s Tokyo Game Show (TGS), SEGA filled a small meeting room at its Irvine, CA, headquarters with a curious selection of “new” video games. Most of SEGA’s playable TGS games will only seem new to a select audience, but for content-starved Nintendo Switch 2 owners, the event’s
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As we prepare for cooler temps in North America, the book world is collectively preparing its TBR. Everyone, from the New York Times to TIME and other publications, has released lists full of the books coming out within the next few months that they’re excited about. And now, so has NPR. NPR’s list includes fiction
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