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The Stichting INGKA Foundation, which owns IKEA — every store, every meatball, every flat-pack hex key — holds roughly $60 billion in assets and was once ranked the world's wealthiest charity, even as it gave away barely a million euros a year, making it one of the least generous foundations on earth
A Dutch foundation called Stichting INGKA Foundation owns the company that sold you your bookshelf, your meatballs, and your hex key.
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The Antarctic icefish is the only vertebrate known to have no hemoglobin, its blood runs clear instead of red — and it survives on oxygen dissolved straight into a watery plasma pumped by an oversized heart
Draw blood from an Antarctic icefish and it does not run red. It runs pale and nearly colorless, nothing like the deep red of ordinary blood.
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The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Microsoft’s experimental AI diagnostic system, MAI-DxO, correctly solved up to 85.5% of 304 difficult medical cases adapted from the New England Journal of Medicine — far above the 20% average achieved by 21 experienced physicians under benchmark conditions.
In the mudstones of a place called Bright Angel, Perseverance detected complex carbon molecules hundreds of times across two rocks, a find researchers called the only detection of macromolecular carbon on a natural rock surface on Mars
In July 2025, the ATLAS sky survey in Chile spotted a faint comet racing through the solar system at roughly 130,000 miles per hour — and follow-up orbit calculations quickly showed it was not bound to the Sun at all, but had arrived from interstellar space.
Neuroscientists long believed you are born with all the neurons you will ever have — in 2025, researchers found newly formed neurons in the brains of adults as old as 78, overturning decades of settled thinking
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Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
The Antarctic icefish is the only vertebrate known to have no hemoglobin, its blood runs clear instead of red — and it survives on oxygen dissolved straight into a watery plasma pumped by an oversized heart
Two South Korean companies named Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix now manufacture roughly two-thirds of the memory chips inside almost every digital device on Earth — produced inside a country whose 1953 per-capita income was lower than Somalia's or Haiti's
Microsoft’s experimental AI diagnostic system, MAI-DxO, correctly solved up to 85.5% of 304 difficult medical cases adapted from the New England Journal of Medicine — far above the 20% average achieved by 21 experienced physicians under benchmark conditions.
On 29 April 2020, a single bolt of lightning stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi in one continuous flash, far enough to reach from New York City to Columbus, Ohio before the thunder from its first end had finished rolling
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