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AI is rapidly changing math and mathematicians are defining their role in the equation

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Science & Technology

AI is rapidly changing math, and mathematicians are defining their role in the equation

Minnesota's Hmong community feeling betrayed

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Immigration

Minnesota’s Hmong community feeling a sense of betrayal amid ICE crackdowns

How to eat surströmming — the world's smelliest food — the Swedish way

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Food

Surströmming challenge: How Swedes actually eat the world’s worst-smelling food

A brief history of US, Israeli and Iranian relations

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US-Israel-Iran War

The computer will see you now

A riverbank scene with several boats moored, including a large wooden boat where people are working on its roof, near a dirt road lined with small buildings, and a white pickup truck parked nearby.

Health & Medicine

Measuring patients’ vital signs virtually in the heart of the Amazon

Formal concerts in informal places

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Music

This family in Prague holds classical music concerts in their own living room

A soldier in green camouflage uniform stands beside a large military tank, holding a rifle and examining its exterior in a dusty environment.

Trump rules out talks absent Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ as Israel strikes Lebanon

Descriptions of struggle at an art exhibition in Prague

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Arts, Culture & Media

As climate change melts permafrost, landslides are becoming more dangerous

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Out of Eden Walk

As climate change melts permafrost, landslides are becoming more dangerous 

Argentine beef is coming to the US

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Business, Economics and Jobs

Amid surge in exports to US, Argentina aims to reclaim the glory days of its beef

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How money became ‘the most powerful metaphor’ in the world

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Which Jane Austen do you think should go on the British £10 note?

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Why are Ecuadoreans obsessed with the $2 bill?

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