Everything: 20 Jul – 26 Jul
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The week’s editions · 84
The hunt for a new drug is a search through billions of molecules
West Africa signs off a $25bn gas pipeline that will outlive us all
The lock everyone trusts turned out to have a spare key this week
The bills that won't come down - inflation eases, but groceries and gas don't
Coffee jumps a quarter in a month - and the reason is a room full of traders, not a frost
As consoles head toward $1,000, Amazon and Xbox race to give games away
AI's price collapses as the race shifts from smartest to cheapest
How your lungs trade gas with blood - a swap that runs on a difference, not a pump
Loss aversion - why a loss hurts about twice as much as the same gain feels good
NASA bets $2 billion on a nuclear engine to beat the brutal math of reaching Mars
Why the world's richest clubs are suddenly paying up for "oven-ready" players
A protest wave topples a minister, and a Russian ally breaks ranks
Four drug programs died this week. One winner took every headline.
The power industry is ordering gas turbines for 2031 — chasing demand nobody can yet see
The patch was ready for months — the servers just never got it
The AI buildout meets the bond market — and $1.2 trillion it keeps off the books
Trump's new tariffs take aim at the walls countries build around their farms
Valve raised the Steam Deck's price, and up to 80% of buyers walked
The AI buildout is starting to outspend Big Tech's cash
How your body handles a threat — a two-wave alarm built for seconds, not months
Diversification — why spreading your money across bets that don't move together steadies the ride without costing you the reward
NASA spells out its most complex flight yet — a two-week Moon rehearsal before boots land
Rugby's concussion reckoning asks the question sport keeps dodging — whose job was it to protect the players?
Economic weapons start landing at home as the world trades blows
The same caffeine is heart-safe in coffee and risky in an energy shot
AI's data centres are outrunning the grid built to feed them
Millions of cars carry a hidden alarm — and it protects every one with the same key
The consumer-finance watchdog is set to be run by a man from a bank it polices
Brazil's 20-year soybean boom hits pause as US crop losses head for a sixth straight year
EA's new $150 FC 27 edition is mostly currency for its pack slot machine
An AI told to ace a hacking test broke out and stole the answer key
How your bones rebuild themselves — the skeleton you have now is not the one you had ten years ago
Compound interest — why money that earns a return which itself earns a return grows as a curve, not a line
It costs 96% less to reach orbit than in 1960 — and a new study says the fall is far from over
The World Cup's prize ladder shows why one goal was worth $17m
America opens two fronts at once — a new tariff wave on 80 countries, and a 13th night of strikes on Iran
Two obesity-drug giants are now fighting over whose ad tells the truth
Lake Powell is one foot from switching off its own power
Your period tracker isn't hacked — that's the business model
Google's blowout quarter, and the market flinched at the bill
Brands are ditching seed oils for beef tallow — and the whole fats shelf is repricing
GTA 6 pre-orders smash records — and the pricier edition is winning
The race to own the money layer for AI agents
How your body rations blood — a finite supply, ranked in advance to keep the brain and heart alive
Money illusion — why the number in your account can grow while its meaning shrinks
The FCC sells off a slice of the airwaves — and rewrites the rules for who gets to fly in space
MLB's trade deadline nears, and a wide-open race is scrambling who buys and who sells
A war neither side will stop, and an Ebola outbreak that is now the fastest killer on record
Why evolution never weeded out the genes that make us sick when we're old
US power emissions rose 4% last year — in the middle of a clean-energy boom
The break-in came through the box built to keep people out
Wall Street's biggest bank says don't buy long bonds — as rich-world debt hits a record $75.8 trillion
Washington bets AI can save the farm — farmers say their problem is the price of everything
A former Xbox star just explained why his old colleagues are losing their jobs — Game Pass
China's Moonshot closes the AI gap with an open model — despite the chip ban
How your ears sort sound — the cochlea turns a jumble of pitches into a place on a map
Liquidity — the gap between what you own and what you can spend today
A robot with two arms goes to work on aging satellites in orbit
Liverpool's owners want to sell a slice — at a price valuing the whole club above $6bn
Ukraine sacks its top general as street protests force a wartime reversal
Aging may be a cleanup problem — and a Stanford lab just switched the crew back on in mice
America's largest grid just came up short on its own safety cushion
An AI broke into the AI world's biggest library — and its own AI wouldn't help it fight back
Americans are borrowing more than they have in five years — and a third still can't find $2,000
Farmers say the fertilizer market is rigged — and asked Washington to open the books
Gaming hardware is getting more expensive, and games aren't the reason
The most important chip company you've never heard of is paying its people to stay
How your body remembers a germ — the record that turns one illness into lasting immunity
Risk and return — why the reward is the rent you're paid for bearing what might go wrong
The US military more than tripled its rocket-launch budget as space demand surges
Chelsea's record £117m signing caps a transfer summer where the World Cup set the prices
Britain changes prime minister again as war widens on three fronts
A phase 3 drug just sold for $500,000 — the same week its old owner spent billions elsewhere
Heat is quietly taking a cut of India's pay packets
Coca-Cola stopped bottling milk — and three companies this week shut their own systems down
Oil passes $90 even as the Gulf ships more of it — and the rate debate turns
Cattle futures fell $15 in two weeks — while the USDA raised its beef forecast to a record
An indie developer posted a clip of her game idea. The AI clones beat her to the store.
AI advice made people three times less accurate — and twice as sure
How your body knows which way is up — three senses cross-check each other, and the trouble starts when they disagree
Mental accounting — why your mind refuses to treat identical money as identical
Each Starlink satellite now swerves 40 times a year — and nobody has to count them
Prediction markets are eating sports betting from outside the rulebook
Russia's largest missile salvo hits Kyiv as Europe's sanctions bloc frays
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