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The Best International TV Shows of 2025

As streaming services in 2025 sealed their dominance in the international TV landscape, surpassing traditional broadcasters in both viewership and content investment for the first time, the shows that stood out globally did not seem to be spawned by an algorithm. They range

How climate campaigns can cut through ad fatigue

Since November 2025, commuters at Southwark tube station in London have been passing walls lined with vintage-style posters parodying oil and gas advertising, instead of ads promoting flights or energy companies. One 1950s-style poster shows a woman holding a small yellow

Wall Street Journal knocks Romney's 'tax the rich' proposal

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board went after former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) over his “tax the rich” proposal in a New York Times opinion piece. “The rich who favor higher taxes pitch this as an act of civic virtue. But paying higher taxes on income or capital gains is

This cancer-fighting molecule took 50 years to build

MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from related molecules by only two atoms. With the synthesis finally complete,

Why the Hell Is JD Vance Quoting Nicki Minaj Now?

We bet you didn’t have this on your 2025 bingo card: Vice President JD Vance just quoted rapper Nicki Minaj defending white people. Following Minaj’s appearance at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest this weekend, Vance took to X Monday to tout that he’d finally found an actually

Five new planets and the battle for their atmospheres

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do that, scientists have to know where to look, and the exoplanet has to