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Visa’s Open USD Push Puts Circle’s Stablecoin Moat Under Pressure

A 140-member consortium launched Open USD with shared-yield architecture, pressuring Circle's reserve-based model while benefiting Visa and other legacy payment networks.

MarketBeat · Jul 5

Why do some villages in China build circular homes: The remarkable story behind Fujian Tulou earthen fortresses

Seen from above, they resemble giant doughnuts carved into the landscape. From ground level, they look more like medieval fortresses than family homes. Their towering earthen walls, narrow entranceways and vast wooden interiors seem designed for defence rather than domestic life. Yet behind these imposing façades lies one of China's…

The Times of India · Jul 5

Gorillas Share More With Humans Than DNA: The Behaviors Science Keeps Underestimating

The Number That Explains Almost NothingGorillas and humans share 98.3% of their DNA. That figure comes from genome sequencing published in Nature in 2012, which also found that roughly 30% of the gorilla genome is actually closer to humans or chimpanzees than chimps and humans are to each other. The…

Times Life · Jul 5

How Chronic Stress Quietly Destroys Male Fertility, Testosterone, and Sperm Health

The Cortisol-Testosterone Trade-off Nobody ExplainsWhen the body perceives sustained threat, a deadline that never ends, financial pressure, fractured sleep, it prioritises cortisol production above almost everything else. Cortisol and testosterone are both synthesised from the same precursor: cholesterol. Under chronic stress, the body effectively redirects that raw material toward cortisol…

Times Life · Jul 4

China's warning reveals what really happened at Modi-Takaichi summit

India and Japan's recent summit in Delhi has sparked concern in Beijing. Agreements on defense, critical minerals, and AI signal a strategic shift, prompting China to caution against "exclusive small groupings." The summit's focus on economic security, diversified supply chains, and defense co-development, particularly the UNICORN project, directly challenges China's…

The Economic Times · Jul 3

How the Skincare Industry Sells You More Products Than You Need and How to Push Back

The Ten-Step Routine Was Never About Your SkinThe average Indian woman in her twenties owns more skincare products than she will finish in two years. That is not a coincidence. The ten-step routine, popularised by Korean beauty marketing and amplified by Indian influencers, was never a dermatological recommendation. It was…

Times Life · Jul 3

Valar nuclear startup partners with Nvidia on data center aiming to conserve water

California-based Valar announced ⁠the ⁠partnership in Utah at the site of its small nuclear plant called a microreactor. It also ran a demonstration powering Nvidia's Blackwell, ​its latest AI chip architecture for data centers. It was the first time a small reactor powered a data center, ​the companies said.

The Economic Times · Jul 2

Tel Aviv should build broader alliance from India to US via West Asia: Top Israeli defence official

Israel's top defence official proposed a new regional security architecture, advocating for a broad alliance from India to the US, encompassing West Asia and Europe. This initiative, he stated, is crucial given Iran's military buildup and aims to forge shared interests. A new US-Israel security pact, grounded in mutual interests,…

The Economic Times · Jul 1

When research money is scarce, should it fund cow urine papers?

Cow urine can fight off the Chikungunya virus.

Newslaundry · Jul 1

Why Parrots Can Mimic Human Speech So Perfectly but Cannot Understand Language Like We Do

The organ that makes it possibleParrots are the only birds whose vocal anatomy allows them to approximate human consonants and vowels with any real precision. The key is the syrinx, the avian equivalent of a larynx, located at the base of the trachea where it forks into the two bronchi.…

Times Life · Jul 1