Ebola outruns the response in DR Congo, with half the deaths in twenty days

World

The UN says the outbreak is growing exponentially across an area bigger than France, more than 2,500 people are dead, and the money to fight it runs out within weeks.

Finance

Washington's move to hold down long-term borrowing costs stopped working almost immediately.

Tech

ByteDance and Tencent each took about 10,000 Nvidia H200 AI chips - roughly 2.5% of the order book their companies were cleared to buy in January.

Mind & body

Anaesthesia is not a switch that flips off and on.

Climate

The US moved to strike its hottest emissions scenario from federal planning, in the same week a study found each unit of carbon may warm the planet about a quarter more than assumed.

Space

Chang'e-7 lifts off late Sunday to drill for water ice in craters that have not seen sunlight in billions of years.

Biotech

A Japanese team found killer immune cells growing, not shrinking, in people past 110 - a week when longevity science, ageing clocks and the rarest-disease drugs all came down to how few people you can actually study.

Money

A bond's payments are fixed the day it is issued.

Sports

The local cable channels that carried teams are winding down, so the NBA is building a streaming home of its own that is reported to cost over a billion dollars.

Gaming

Circana lost its two biggest digital reporters in the same month US physical game sales fell to $85 million, the lowest since tracking began in 1995.

Food

Field scouts walking the US Corn Belt found yields well below the government's estimate, and December corn crossed $5 a bushel for the first time since February 2025.

Cyber

A road agency in a country of 1.8 million lost 18 years of payment receipts.