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Scientists have created robots the size of a pencil tip intended to travel through the body to deliver medicine to infections inside a beating heart. The bots, designed to replace risky open-heart surgery and ineffective IV-drug therapy to treat life-threatening heart infections, could also be used to less invasively and more precisely treat other hard-to-reach diseases, including cancer. “With just a little…
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Read in Meet In CommonConsumers who buy Affordable Care Act health insurance are going to see changes both big and small as open enrollment for 2027 coverage kicks off. These include premium increases, possible additional identity checks, potential delays in working with a broker, and new limits on which immigrants can get subsidies. Shoppers need to plan accordingly. Open enrollment starts Nov. 1 in most states. Idaho, Connecticut, and…
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Read in Meet In CommonHalloween excitement, not sugar, may be behind your child’s “sugar rush,” experts say. Your child eats a handful of Halloween candy and suddenly seems to be bouncing off the walls. It may be tempting to blame the sugar, but there could be a simpler explanation: Halloween is exciting. Kids are dressing up, running around the neighborhood, seeing friends, and coming home with a haul of treats they don’t usually have.…
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OTM producer, Molly Rosen, has been on a mission to find out what technology her two-year-old kid will confront when he’s old enough to go to school. In a recent interview she did with a New Yorker staff writer, Jessica Winter, about how AI chatbots are infiltrating schools, Moll
My guest today is Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft and chairman of the Gates Foundation. You may have noticed Bill in the news more lately — he’s been on something of a tour for the past few months talking about AI risk, and how crucial it is that we start takin
We’re hearing a ton about the marvels of testosterone from influencers, celebrities, and even government officials. They say we should be thinking about our T levels, topping them off with extra if they’re too low. And we’re told that the benefits of testosterone are HUGE: that w
Gayle King detailed her morning routine, sharing her very early wake-up time and how many hours of sleep she gets per night: “It really is brutal.”
Aviv Shapira, the CEO of Xtend, says the company has sent 10,000 drones to the Israel Defense Forces since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. “It’s not a gamification," he says. "It’s more of a modernization.”
Natasha Gregson Wagner was 11 years old when her mother, Natalie Wood, died. We spoke with her about the scent of gardenias from her childhood, a house where Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn used to visit, and why she refuses to let her mother’s story be told as a tragedy.
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A chef becomes known for food from a culture outside their own after years of study with respected cooks. The restaurant is successful, while small businesses run by people from that culture struggle for attention.
Explore the questionA recurring family dispute has reached the point where nobody agrees on what was actually said. Your cousin proposes uploading five years of the family group chat to an AI that can reconstruct events, flag contradictions, and recommend a fair resolution. Nearly everyone agrees—but one relative refuses.
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