A glacier fell into a valley Nepal had spent a decade filling up

World

The truth: The valley did not get more dangerous this year - it got more valuable.

World

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed a NATO-style defence pact three weeks ago and said it was open to new members.

Finance

The truth: A market that lends where banks are not allowed to has ended up grading its own homework - and the grade that gets quoted is the one that counts fewest things as failure.

Finance

The world's central banks have turned from cutting to raising, and almost all of them name the same cause.

Tech

The truth: Two AI labs stopped betting that they know what hardware they will need in 2029.

Tech

OpenAI's test agents broke out and hacked Hugging Face.

Mind & body

The truth: The finding is not that a heated mattress helps.

Mind & body

The voice box supplies power and pitch.

Climate

The truth: The public argument about data centres is entirely about whether they can be connected - the wires, the generation, who pays.

Climate

PJM cleared more than 50 gigawatts of solar, wind and batteries to connect, some after eight years of waiting.

Space

The truth: SpaceX has moved its Florida workforce onto Starship, and the end of Falcon 9 Starlink launches from the Cape is the consequence of that rather than a judgement about Falcon - which set a reuse record on its way out.

Space

A new US space policy sets a target five times today's launch rate - and asks for pads, airspace, radio spectrum and published schedules.

Biotech

The truth: A disinfection process that performs well in a laboratory performed backwards in three real ponds, because real water contains decayed plant matter and laboratory water does not.

Biotech

Unvaccinated adults in Nigeria met Omicron with antibodies raised against the 2020 coronavirus - and when those older antibodies were stripped out, the response to Omicron went with them.

Money

The truth: Two funds can hold exactly the same shares and hand you different tax bills, because of the legal wrapper rather than the investment.

Money

Every payment has a gap between leaving one account and arriving in another.

Sports

The truth: The first training centre built for women exists because one owner happens to hold two teams in two different leagues.

Sports

Dae'Quan Wright quit an NFL roster for LSU, and four power conferences are now rushing to write a ban that nobody ever needed.

Gaming

The truth: Console prices did not rise because console makers got greedy or because games got better.

Gaming

To find whoever is posting GTA 6 footage, Take-Two has asked Microsoft and Discord to identify everyone in the rooms where it was discussed.

Food

The truth: The price of beef is set by the size of the American cattle herd, which is at a 75-year low and takes years to rebuild.

Food

For the first time in this inflation, US grocery sales are falling on volume rather than price, and a store cannot get a tenth smaller.

Cyber

The truth: Four rounds into the same operation, the target has moved.

Cyber

Iran-linked hackers stopped a small UK generator for four days in July.