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Why Daydreaming Is the Missing Tool in Your Productivity and Creativity Toolkit

Chanakya Knew the Idle Mind Had Work to DoChanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a minister who never rests will exhaust his judgment before he exhausts his enemies. The principle was about statecraft, but the neuroscience behind it took another 2,300 years to arrive. In 2001, neurologist Marcus Raichle at…

Times Life

Scientists Discovered a Hidden Immune Backup System That Could Make mRNA Cancer Vaccines Far More Powerful

Washington University researchers found mRNA cancer vaccines activate an unexpected backup immune pathway. The Nature study could help improve vaccines for melanoma, lung cancer, and more.

Medical Daily

The Sweetener Marketed to Diabetics May Be Silently Harming Their Livers. New Research from WashU Explains How.

Washington University Medicine study in Science Signaling: sorbitol converts to fructose in the liver when gut bacteria are overwhelmed, triggering fatty liver disease.

Medical Daily

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Minnesota raises unprecedented constitutional issues in its lawsuit against Trump administration anti-immigrant deployment

A federal judge heard arguments on Jan. 26, 2026, as the state of Minnesota sought a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in the state. The administration has sent some 3,000 immigration agents to Minnesota, and attorneys for the state have argued, in part, that…

The Conversation

Don't Waste Your Money on Bad Gifts. Try This Instead.

These strategies, backed by behavioral finance, can help you find presents that your loved ones will truly enjoy.

Kiplinger

Researchers embed digital 'fingerprints' into 3D printed parts — tech may make future ghost guns more traceable

Washington University researchers have developed a way to embed traceable fingerprints into 3D printed objects, which could make it easier to track ghost guns in the future.

Tom’s Hardware

Doctors are joining unions in a bid to improve working conditions and raise wages in a stressful health care system

The share of doctors who belong to unions is rising quickly at a time when organized labor is losing ground with other professions. The Conversation U.S. asked Patrick Aguilar, a Washington University in St. Louis pulmonologist and management professor, to explain why the number of physicians joining unions is growing…

The Conversation

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Smashing up a 3D printed ghost gun won't be enough to prevent CSIs from retrieving data for forensic analysis - here's why

Fingerprinting in 3D printing could curb ghost guns, yet raises debates over privacy, regulation, and enforcement on personal printing machines.

TechRadar

Roman Space Telescope will use a century-old idea from Einstein to probe the nature of mysterious dark matter

Get ready for a new Roman Empire: A NASA space telescope will detect a staggering wealth of intricate gravitational lenses that could help unlock the mysteries of dark matter.

Space

50 years later, Apollo 17’s moon samples are still revealing secrets about lunar volcanoes

The beads are over 3.3 billion years old, and date from the formation of the "Man in the Moon."

Space

How Nest turned a $24,000 idea into a global movement supporting women artisans

In 2005, Rebecca van Bergen was a graduate student in social work at Washington University when she won $24,000 in a school innovation contest

The Independent UK

Trump treats laws as obstacles, not limits − and the only real check on his rule-breaking can come from political pressure

Lately, the headlines have been clear: President Donald Trump is headed for a showdown with the courts. If he ignores their rulings, the courts have few tools and limited power to make him comply.

The Conversation

Simone Biles reveals the mantra she repeats to herself when she's overwhelmed—it gets the Olympic gold medalist through moments when she doubts herself

Other power players like Sundar Pichai and Melinda French-Gates have their own methods to cope with the pressure: not taking things so seriously.

Fortune

Scientists may have just found the driving force behind Venus' volcanos

Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports.

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Public money, private patents? Unravelling India’s opacity over its Covid vaccines

Public money, private patents: Unravelling India’s opacity over its Covid vaccines

The Independent UK

Researchers find a hint at how to delay Alzheimer's symptoms. Now they have to prove it

An experimental treatment appears to postpone Alzheimer's symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease at a young age

Digital Camera World

Is this the world's smallest AI camera? It can end arguments with Siri and Alexa!

Hate dealing with chatty smart home assistants? You're not alone –and an AI camera small enough to wear on a ring might solve that

The Guardian - UK

‘To confront the anti-gay law is to trouble waters’: the young Nigerian novelist refusing to go by the book

Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s first novel, Blessings, about love in a hostile climate, was written after a life-changing encounter with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The Conversation

Is the American Dream achievable? These students are examining its promises and pitfalls

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Al Jazeera

Mitch McConnell’s legacy: A ‘grim reaper’ for US bipartisanship?

McConnell is set to step down as the longest-serving Senate leader. Experts say he made the chamber into a battlefield.

The Independent UK

His family pleaded for police to take his gun away. Days later he shot up his school

Orlando Harris did not live in a state with a red-flag law

Fortune

‘No longer the only woman in the room’: MBA gender gap closing at top business schools

Women make up 42% of MBA students, and top schools like Northwestern, Duke, and WashU reached gender parity this year.

Fortune

We ranked the best MBA Programs, but you shouldn't count out some sleeper schools

Harvard, Chicago Booth, and Northwestern Kellogg top Fortune’s 2025 MBA ranking, but the data highlights programs you might want to consider.

The Independent UK

Mystery behind disappearance of ancient American city finally unravelled

Archaeologists suspect city’s disappearance was gradual, not sudden as previously thought

The Independent UK

For college students arrested protesting the war in Gaza, the fallout was only beginning

More than 3,200 people were arrested on college campuses this spring during a wave of pro-Palestinian tent encampments protesting the war in Gaza

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