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29 Mind-Blowing Photos From The 1980s
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Jun 29 • 6:16 AM EDT • Technology • yahoo.com
29 Photos Of 1980s Things

I feel like I'm time-traveling.

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Jun 29 • 6:16 AM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com
Clients push consultants to adopt outcome-based fees to share in risk

Consulting giants like BCG and Accenture are shifting from fixed rates to outcome-based fees as clients push them to share the risk of AI integration.

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Jun 29 • 5:14 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Virginians are feeling the effects of spiking health insurance premiums

Nearly 1 in 5 people using the state exchange has dropped coverage since January.

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Jun 29 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • vpm.org
Quality coffee, Ojibwe bonds build a business on the Fond du Lac Reservation in NE Minnesota

At a roadside kiosk on the reservation, Jackson Ripley and his family blend great coffee and Ojibwe culture together with a bit of magic. In the process, they’ve built new community ties, and they’re hoping to do more.

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Jun 29 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • mprnews.org
Building a culture of connection for physicians

At Sanford Health, strong relationships, listening and leadership support help physicians feel connected and better equipped to thrive.

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Jun 29 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • ama-assn.org
Opinion: Bring back respect in politics

No matter your party or political persuasion, it is undeniable that American politics has taken on a tenor of anger and pessimism. This national mood has made American politics atoxic stew of rage, discontentment and despair. Many Americans don’t feel that the reforms they would like to see in their government are possible. These...

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Jun 29 • 12:47 AM EDT • Politics • dailyutahchronicle.com
19 Screenshots Of Dads Who Made Hilarious Bad Decisions

I have questions...

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Jun 28 • 10:31 PM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com
First ever dinosaur found in Antarctica described for science

Dinosaur backbone is the first found on the icy continent, and belongs to a titanosaur around 6–7 meters in length.

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Jun 28 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nhm.ac.uk
New Ballard coffee shop burglarized two months into business

Highland Espresso is recovering after thieves broke in and stole thousands of dollars worth of equipment early Thursday morning.

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Jun 28 • 7:57 PM EDT • Business • kiro7.com
Couple retired to Costa Rica with 2 sons; bought a $1.6 million house

"We fill every day. There's really not a lot of downtime, yet we never feel rushed or pushed or stressed," Andrew Rappaport told BI about life in Costa Rica.

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Jun 28 • 7:14 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
That explains it: Phillies 5, Mets 4

The Mets showed why they’re a last place team

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Jun 28 • 5:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Health insurers are looking for MAHA wins

The companies are offering benefits aimed at appealing to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again movement.

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Jun 28 • 4:00 PM EDT • Health • politico.com
Scratching bug bites feels good – but science says don’t do it

You’ve likely heard it since childhood: Don’t scratch that bug bite or rash, you’ll make it worse. But why would something that feels so good be bad?

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Jun 28 • 11:32 AM EDT • Science • globalnation.inquirer.net
I started using Projects in Google Drive; it instantly boosted my productivity

Google Drive finally feels smarter

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Jun 28 • 11:15 AM EDT • Technology • androidpolice.com
Seattle's data center moratorium: symbolic politics, real costs

With its data center moratorium, Seattle just put the whole city on the wrong side of the new digital divide — and its poorest residents will feel it most.

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Jun 28 • 11:00 AM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Govee's smart nugget ice maker makes every iced drink feel like a luxury

For some people, the ice in a beverage is almost as important as the drink itself. That's the audience Govee had in mind when designing its latest ice

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Jun 28 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Men's Health Athleticism Trailer

Men's Health Athleticism Trailer

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Jun 28 • 8:34 AM EDT • Health • menshealth.com
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What to Do in Houston If You're Here for Business (2026)

Make the most of your work trip with these restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and downtime destinations.

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Jun 28 • 8:21 AM EDT • Business • wired.com
New packaging for Apple's A20 Pro chip should keep the iPhone 18 Pro series feeling cool

With everyone worried about chips and phones heating up, processors are getting improved thermal management tools.

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Jun 28 • 2:16 AM EDT • Technology • phonearena.com
Michael Olise reveals the reason behind his trademark lackluster celebrations

Michael Olise is not know for his big celebrations.

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Jun 28 • 1:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NH businesses feel impact of low summer hiring rates

A new report from the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute shows summer hiring rates are lower than previous years in the Granite State, and two businesses on Hampton Beach are feeling the effects.

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Jun 27 • 8:47 PM EDT • Business • wmur.com
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Texas A&M’s Marcel Reed impresses in Air‑It‑Out exhibition

Marcel Reed delivered one of the top highlights at the Manning Passing Academy, dropping a perfect deep ball during the Air‑It‑Out exhibition.

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Jun 27 • 7:21 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A Giant Scorpion the Size of a Coffee Table Is Forcing Scientists To Rethink Evolution

Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may reflect a world with few large competitors rather than high oxygen alone.

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Jun 27 • 5:36 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com
Scratching that bug bite might feel good at first but science explains why it's a bad idea

You've likely heard it since childhood: Don't scratch that bug bite or rash, you'll make it worse. But why would something that feels so good be bad?

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Jun 27 • 3:28 PM EDT • Science • medicalxpress.com
Vancouver turns its Science World museum into a giant 17-story soccer ball for the World Cup

It started with a whimsical idea. Why not transform the landmark Science World museum in downtown Vancouver, the geodesic dome-topped building not far from BC Place stadium, into a gigantic 17-story soccer ball for the World Cup?

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Jun 27 • 2:56 PM EDT • Science • apnews.com
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Scientists finally explain why these wild boars stay more radioactive than Chernobyl's wolves - Futura-Sciences

What explains this surprising finding? The answer appears to be a complex mix of history, ecology, and diet. Bavaria’s wild boars mainly feed on underground fungi that absorbed radioactive fallout from both the notorious Chernobyl disaster and Cold War-era nuclear testing. Unlike wolves, which sit higher on the food chain...

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Jun 27 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
34 Funny Fails

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Jun 27 • 1:31 PM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com
Colby Parkinson is extremely valuable to the Rams offense

Analysts around the league are clamoring for him, but they’re almost certainly not going to pry him away from L.A.

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Jun 27 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Scratching that bug bite might feel good at first but science explains why it's a bad idea

Now researchers better understand why even a mildly annoying itch could put you on an itch-and-scratch cycle if you give in.

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Jun 27 • 10:51 AM EDT • Science • boston.com
Scratching that bug bite might feel good at first but science explains why it's a bad idea

For the summer itchiness of bug bites and poison ivy, dermatologists recommend hydrocortisone cream, calamine lotion or oatmeal baths.

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Jun 27 • 10:31 AM EDT • Health • nbcdfw.com
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Dear Abby | Mom's rekindling with abusive father feels like a betrayal

Dear Abby: I am estranged from my father and have been since I was 12. (I'm currently 26.) He was emotionally, psychologically and physically abusive to me, and cutting ties

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Jun 27 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • wenatcheeworld.com
What scientists discovered about coffee grounds will transform construction industry - Futura-Sciences

At the start of 2024, a study published several months ago is once again drawing attention. Scientists at RMIT University in Australia have identified an unexpected use for spent coffee grounds, opening the door to a promising solution for both the construction sector and organic waste management. From coffee waste...

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Jun 27 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
Scratching a bug bite feels good but science says it’s a bad idea

Researchers have gained a better understanding of why we have an itch to scratch.

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Jun 27 • 9:52 AM EDT • Science • bostonglobe.com
Scratching that bug bite might feel good at first but science explains why it's a bad idea

You scratched that bug bite and now it's a big itchier bump. Some science explains why scratching really can make things worse, even if you don't break the skin. University of Pittsburgh researchers put tiny “cones of shame” onto mice to help unravel what happens on a cellular level when an itch ...

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Jun 27 • 7:53 AM EDT • Science • wral.com
Scratching that bug bite might feel good at first but science explains why it’s a bad idea

You scratched that bug bite and now it's a big itchier bump.

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Jun 27 • 7:51 AM EDT • Science • seattletimes.com
Scratching that bug bite might feel good at first but science explains why it’s a bad idea

WASHINGTON (AP) — You’ve likely heard it since childhood: Don’t scratch that bug bite or rash, you’ll make it worse. But why would something that feels so good be bad? A lot of things can cause itc…

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Jun 27 • 7:51 AM EDT • Science • woodtv.com
Scratching that bug bite might feel good at first but science explains why it's a bad idea

You scratched that bug bite and now it's a big itchier bump. Some science explains why scratching really can make things worse, even if you don't break the skin. University

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Jun 27 • 7:51 AM EDT • Science • oskaloosa.com
Scratching that bug bite might feel good at first but science explains why it's a bad idea

You’ve likely heard it since childhood: Don’t scratch that bug bite or rash, you’ll make it worse. A lot of things can cause itchiness, sometimes serious diseases. Whatever the cause, doctors have l...

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Jun 27 • 7:51 AM EDT • Science • uk.style.yahoo.com
Driving A New Ford Mustang Mach-E After 5 Years Feels So Much Better

The 2026 Ford Mustang Mach-E isn't drastically different from its original 2021 version, but small improvements and a price dip make it a better EV purchase.

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Jun 27 • 6:15 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
That advancing to the knockout stage feeling 🇨🇻

That advancing to the knockout stage feeling 🇨🇻

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Jun 27 • 1:59 AM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Piccadilly Jackson Medical Mall location closing after more than 56 years in business

After more than 56 years in business, the Piccadilly restaurant located in the Jackson Medical Mall is closing.

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Jun 26 • 10:00 PM EDT • Business • wlbt.com
Burglars steal from Grand Forks business, cancer fundraiser

The owner of An Elegant Affair says burglars stole merchandise, cash and donations collected for an employee battling cancer.

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Jun 26 • 7:09 PM EDT • Business • inforum.com
140 Kauai Coffee jobs saved through new land lease agreement

The lease agreement between Kauai Coffee’s parent company, Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group, and landowner Brue Baukol Capital Partners was finalized after nearly two years of negotiations

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Jun 26 • 6:35 PM EDT • Business • spectrumlocalnews.com
House Republican reacts to changing politics under Trump

Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson spoke to NBC News' Garrett Haake about his recent loss in the primary to become the governor of South Dakota, and how he feels about the current political environment under President Trump.

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Jun 26 • 6:02 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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50 Cool Charts That Will Make You So Much Smarter

Reading this is like going to college in five minutes.

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Jun 26 • 5:31 PM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com
‘Under the Radar’ Cowboys Free Agent Predicted for Major Payday

Bleacher Report predicts Dallas Cowboys CB Cobie Durant could land a major payday in 2027 with a standout season. The post ‘Under the Radar’ Cowboys Free Agent Predicted for Major Payday appeared first on HEAVY.

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Jun 26 • 1:06 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why the Amex Business Gold is my go-to card for business expenses

The Amex Business Gold makes earning rewards simple with automatic bonus categories, flexible Membership Rewards points and statement credits that help offset its annual fee.

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Jun 26 • 1:00 PM EDT • Business • thepointsguy.com
New feed trailer expands feed delivery opportunities

Delivery of bulk feed produced at the Iowa State University Kent Feed Mill and Grain Science Complex to Iowa State’s animal science farms is now possible, thanks to a new high-tech feed trailer.

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Jun 26 • 11:29 AM EDT • Science • cals.iastate.edu
Can We Engineer Being on the Same Wavelength with Others? Research Offers a Cautious “Yes”

Analysis shows science can help us become synchronized over time—and feel more connected to others in the process

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Jun 26 • 11:03 AM EDT • Science • nyu.edu
Why Your Nighttime Dreams Are So Weird—Science Finally Has the Answer - Futura-Sciences

The Secret Life of Dreams: Not Just Random Nonsense Remember the dream you had last night? Maybe you’re left with just a trace—a sweet feeling, maybe, or a strange discomfort. But there’s rarely a story you could actually retell. Because, in the end, a dream is a deeply personal experience....

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Jun 26 • 10:30 AM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
Music Legend Axes Shows After Onstage Health Scare

Lionel Richie was hospitalized on the opening night of his tour with Earth, Wind & Fire after feeling dizzy on-stage.

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Jun 26 • 9:36 AM EDT • Health • thedailybeast.com
Scientists Turn Wet Coffee Grounds Into Coal-Like Fuel in Just 90 Seconds

A new process skips energy-intensive drying for recycling coffee waste.

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Jun 26 • 9:25 AM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
Wren Baker on Competing in College Sports

WVU AD Wren Baker on competing in college sports, Pat McAfee's value, private equity, and CFP expansion.

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Jun 26 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Seattle ups its payout for vandalized small businesses. Is it enough?

For many businesses, the reimbursement "could be the difference between someone making their rent or not, just because this is such a tough time,” said Analog Coffee's owner.

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Jun 26 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • seattletimes.com
What New York’s primary upheaval means for Democrats: Join Friday’s Whole Hog

Democrats are still feeling the political aftershocks of New York’s primaries on Tuesday night, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani-backed victories. What could it signal for the party? Pl…

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Jun 26 • 8:47 AM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
How to get free Windows 10 security patches until October 2027 - and avoid the $30 fee

Don't want to pay to keep Windows 10 security updates? Microsoft has several workarounds, with the best deal for European users.

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Jun 26 • 8:34 AM EDT • Technology • zdnet.com
Scientists stunned by signs of ancient life in a place no one expected

Scientists exploring ancient seafloor rocks in Morocco discovered mysterious wrinkle patterns where they were never expected to occur. These structures are normally linked to microbial mats in shallow, sunlit waters, yet the rocks formed hundreds of feet below the surface in darkness. Evidence indicates that chemosynthetic microbes created the wrinkles, revealing that deep-ocean microbial ecosystems may have been more widespread than previously thought.

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Jun 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Battlefield 6 is altering its long-range gunplay to feel more like Battlefield 4

In just a few short days, Battlefield 6's combat encounters could potentially play out a lot differently from the way they do today.

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Jun 26 • 6:37 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
‘The Hot Zone’ led me to work with Ebola patients. Now I have mixed feelings about the book

“The reality of Ebola is simultaneously less sensational and far more challenging than most people imagine,” writes Krutika Kuppalli.

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Jun 26 • 4:30 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
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Why Michelle Pfeiffer left her 'Grease 2' audition feeling 'so humiliated'

On the anniversary of 'Grease 2,' take a look back at what Michelle Pfeiffer said about her audition. It was humiliating.

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Jun 25 • 10:24 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
World Cup 2026: Christian Pulisic won't start for USMNT's group stage finale against Türkiye
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Jun 25 • 8:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Monkey Business: Wild rhesus macaque spotted at Mount Dora hotel

A wild rhesus macaque was spotted at the historic Lakeside Inn in Mount Dora, Florida, spending about 45 minutes roaming the property and attracting attention from guests and staff. The hotel and local businesses responded with humorous, monkey-themed social media content, engaging the community. Wildlife officials cautioned the public not to approach or feed wild monkeys due to potential health risks and encouraged reporting sightings to authorities. The monkey has not returned to the hotel but has been seen elsewhere in downtown Mount Dora.

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Jun 25 • 6:12 PM EDT • Business • clickorlando.com
Local entrepreneurs, aspiring business owners gain connections, resources at 4th annual expo

Small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs convened in Downtown Memphis to make connections and grow Thursday morning at the 2026 Small Business Expo.

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Jun 25 • 4:50 PM EDT • Business • actionnews5.com
Making Our Own Luck

We are cross-posting a piece that former NIH official Kris Willis wrote for Macroscience. Kris is now the President and Founder of the Woodley Park Institute, for which I’m a board member. Picking winners or hedging bets? Federal science agencies have long wrestled with the question of how to ensure their billions of dollars of grants and contracts result in maximum benefits for Americans. On the surface, it might seem that a goal-oriented, interventionist style of management would be the best policy: prioritize our most pressing problems and distribute funding accordingly.This top-down strategy creates a unique hazard, though: bad choices can send resources in the wrong direction, resulting in slow progress that impedes the delivery of tangible benefits to citizens. Moreover, if decision makers pursue an applied advance when the underlying scientific principles remain poorly understood, they risk costly failures and a loss of support for the research enterprise at large. Examples include Nixon’s 1971 War on Cancer, undertaken on the premise that a cure could be achieved in less than a decade, the drive to build an operational commercial fusion plant by the mid-1990s, and the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, which failed to produce the effective treatments and prevention strategies promised by 2025. The contrasting laissez-faire approach is to hedge your bets. If the path to an advance is impossible to predict, then the wisest choice might be to distribute funding to as widely as possible. The main risk of this strategy is that spreading funding thinly may limit the resources available to the most promising research, resulting in the same negative outcomes as the interventionist approach: limited support for the most promising topics, slow progress, and delayed returns. In reality, at science agencies like the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, program managers navigate between these two extremes, setting some funds aside to target high-priority areas and using the rest to cover the widest possible range of meritorious proposals. This middle path seems like the most rational way to proceed, but it still requires making choices. How much should be set aside for high priority topics? What should those topics be? How should we define merit? Expert opinion can provide a helpful guide, but leading experts can have remarkably different opinions about what matters and what should be prioritized. Moreover, experts and administrators alike can be risk averse, giving an edge to high-profile, well-established concepts. What’s really needed is a data-driven framework to help guide decision-making, one that doesn’t simply repackage prestige or incumbency. Recognizing breakthroughs years in advance Many breakthroughs fail to attract funding or recognition at the earliest stages of development. Katalin Karikó, for example, spent years struggling to win grants for work on mRNA that would eventually win her and Drew Weissman a Nobel Prize. Similar stories can be told about Jim Allison’s groundbreaking studies leading to the development of cancer immunotherapy, Stan Pruisner’s demonstration that prions can self-replicate without DNA, or Robin Warren and Barry Marshall’s proof that Helicobacter pylori, not stress, causes ulcers. Yet at some point, the scientific community recognizes and responds to transformative breakthroughs like these. How does that change happen? And what if science funders could identify the areas that are on the cusp of a breakthrough? Those questions led my collaborators and me to study how scientists responded to past breakthroughs. Based on patterns in that data, we developed a means of predicting future breakthroughs, using biomedicine as a proof of concept. It’s worth taking a moment to describe how our approach works. Briefly, our prediction process begins by grouping the 18 million or so peer-reviewed papers in PubMed, the authoritative database of biomedical research, into roughly 50,000 unique topics. A small subset of these topics are so widely acclaimed as breakthroughs that they have been recognized with a major prize like a Nobel or a Lasker Award. We theorized that studying the development of these outliers over time, especially before they gained acclaim, was the key to identifying future instances of them. After defining topics, we chose 21 representative breakthroughs and asked what they looked like before they won prestigious prizes. To answer that question, we re-ran our topic-mapping algorithm repeatedly, winding back the clock one year each time, stringing together the years to follow the progress of each field as it grew and advanced. We found that in each case, the years leading up to a discovery followed a pattern: a burst of papers on a new, rapidly evolving topic, many of which quickly became influential. These characteristics—the percent of papers that are new, the percentage of papers that are brought in from other topics, and the influence of each individual paper—can all be measured separately for any given topic. Together, they act as a predictive signal that is detectable an average of five years before a transformative discovery is made, and up to thirty years before the discovery receives a major prize. Scanning the current research landscape for topics that display this signal allows us to predict what work will likely produce a future breakthrough. Each year we analyzed includes four or five signals, a number that appears to have remained constant across a twenty year time frame. In their classic work on the sociology of science, Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar established that the desire to participate in a major discovery is an important motivator for scientists as they consider whether they should take up (or abandon) a research problem. Although further work is needed, the simplest explanation for our results is that this behavior is widespread enough to detect at scale. A foundational advance, or something like it, draws the attention of scientists and causes them to change the direction of their research. They vote with their feet, staking their own reputation and careers by publishing on and citing the new idea. That upswell of interest is the foundation of our breakthrough signal. What kind of research does our model identify as a breakthrough? After building a model based on the patterns in our 21 preselected breakthroughs, we tested it by identifying all early signals of discovery from 1994 through 1997. Of the 18 signals we found in that time period, 17 can be traced forward in time to a breakthrough. Examples include super-resolution fluorescence microscopy (see the image above), the directed evolution of proteins and enzymes (Chemistry Nobel, 2018), and sequencing the human genome (National Medal of Science, 2008). The discovery of the role of leptin signaling in obesity is a particularly interesting case study. Around 1950, scientists noticed the existence of a type of lab mouse that suffered from a unique inherited form of obesity. When given the freedom to choose their own diet, these mice ate more than normal and preferred food that was high in fat. Researchers had few clues as to why the animals overate; early experiments pointed to the existence of a soluble ob factor found circulating in the bloodstream that regulated appetite, but its identity was unknown. In 1994, Jeffrey Friedman and colleagues identified and sequenced the ob gene, noting that the protein it encoded appeared to fit the profile of a circulating factor. A year later, a trio of high-profile publications demonstrated that ob was a hormone that regulated body weight and fat deposition by regulating appetite. One of these was co-authored by Friedman, who christened it leptin from the ancient Greek word for thin. Using our model, the data from 1996 make it clear this advance would become a breakthrough. Scientists had flocked to study the biology of the new hormone, generating the flurry of new papers and citations required to produce a signal. One of these demonstrated that serum leptin concentrations reflected the amount of adipose tissue in the human body, providing clinical validation of the earlier mouse studies. Before the identification of leptin, scientists were unable to point to a specific molecule that controlled appetite and adiposity, so that it was impossible to rule out non-physiological causes of obesity; its characterization fundamentally changed our concept of weight gain. In 2010, Friedman and fellow pioneer Douglas Coleman were awarded a Lasker for the discovery. Our work also identifies breakthroughs in clinical practice and behavioral and social sciences, even though these areas are less likely to draw the attention of major prize committees. One example that falls into this category is the introduction of endovascular aneurysm repair, a minimally invasive surgical procedure for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm, a leading cause of death among Americans over the age of 65. Relative to the previous standard of care, it reduces in-hospital mortality by almost four-fold. In 2017, Timothy Chuter received the American College of Surgeons’ prestigious Jacobsen Innovation award for his multiple refinements to the technique. Another under-recognized breakthrough identified by our model is the development of standardized survey instruments to assess the quality of life for HIV+ patients. The antiretroviral cocktails introduced in the mid-1990s reduced AIDS mortality, but treatment came with serious side effects. The new evaluations showed that patients whose disease progressed had worse physical functioning than Americans with other chronic diseases, while those who were asymptomatic maintained a health-related quality of life on par with the overall US population. This evidence made it possible for patients and activists to argue that even in the absence of a total cure, and in spite of the side effects, alleviation of symptoms was a worthwhile priority for clinicians. My colleagues and I have failed to identify any significant recognition for the physicians and health policy experts who pioneered this advance, although in 2016, researchers called for the World Health Organization to set targets for good health-related quality of life as part of its framework to end the AIDS pandemic. From forecasting to funding How should science funders use our predictions? Any serious discussion of what we should do with this new capability needs to begin with an understanding of its limitations. We can’t (and shouldn’t) invest all of our resources in the small number of topics predicted to produce breakthroughs. Innovative new fields are born from existing ones; they rarely arise de novo. If funders don’t maintain a diverse portfolio, the breakthroughs of tomorrow will have no antecedents. Think of this as eating the seed corn, or killing the goose that lays the golden egg. There are also multiple goals of funding beyond basic scientific discovery, including translating discoveries into clinical practice, developing new technologies, supporting economic development, and training new scientists. The investments needed to accomplish these goals are likely different from those required to support emerging breakthroughs. Finally, we must be aware that we may not capture every instance of a breakthrough. The concept is fuzzy, and not every significant discovery is recognized with a major award. Further, breakthroughs are rare, meaning that our dataset is, by necessity, small. This makes formal estimates of accuracy challenging. Although our overall success rate appears to be high, any one signal may turn out to be a false positive. We found one apparent example: the development of the third generation COX-2 inhibitors, Vioxx and Celebrex, which were much celebrated in the early 2000s as effective but non-addictive pain relievers, meets all the algorithmic criteria of a breakthrough. Five years after it received FDA approval, researchers demonstrated that Vioxx was associated with serious cardiovascular complications, and the manufacturer voluntarily pulled the drug from the market. Celebrex remains available, although like other NSAIDs, it carries an FDA warning for increased cardiovascular risk. Decision makers who were overly focused on the breakthrough potential of this research might have wasted substantial resources nurturing an area that ultimately proved to be a failure—but so would those who relied on expert opinion at the time. That said, the potential benefits of funding the next mRNA vaccine or cancer immunotherapy years earlier than we might have are large. When we can’t assume the outcome of an action, it’s worth conducting an experiment. Can targeted support for areas that are poised to produce a breakthrough increase the return on scientific investment without cannibalizing future advances? With the necessary administrative infrastructure in place, conducting this experiment would be straightforward. First, identify all the breakthrough signals between 2018 and 2023, select half at random, and commit to a decade of investment. For biomedicine, a six year window should yield about 30 topics with the potential to produce a breakthrough. Providing strong support to half of these might be accomplished for $300 million a year. That’s roughly half of the recent annual budget of the NIH Common Fund or around 20% of the fiscal year 2025 budget for ARPA-H. After five years, then again at ten, compare to see which group — the one that was actively managed, or the control — produced more breakthroughs, and on what timescale. Although we used biomedicine as an example, the same experiment could just as well be run for physics, materials science, or any other discipline. Any attempt to undertake such an experiment should keep three points top of mind. First, we can predict the topic of future breakthroughs, but the people and vision for how to move the work forward are still important. In practice, this means success requires active program managers with the expertise to develop the science and the authority to do so, including by recruiting investigators. Second, we would be wise to learn from the failures of past attempts to fund transformative research. High among these are funding modestly repackaged work, confusing the genuinely novel with the merely unfamiliar, and relying too much on incumbent investigators. All of these risks can be mitigated by thoroughly and intelligently integrating high quality data into portfolio management. Finally, we need to have patience. Even with strong funding support, producing a breakthrough takes time. If supporting breakthroughs is the best way to nurture the birth of new fields, we also need to accurately describe and properly manage the other two stages, so that we invest wisely throughout the productive lifetime of ideas and divest once they reach the point of diminishing returns. We would benefit from more study of all of these phases, especially the transition from one to another. More research could answer questions like: When does a breakthrough become an established field? How do the availability of funding, the size and characteristics of the available workforce, and the accumulation of evidence that disagrees with prevailing models affect a field’s decline? Exactly how do old ideas give birth to new ones, and can we speed up the process? The more we understand about the dynamics of scientific progress, the better we can maximize the odds that our curiosity leads to results. I’d call that finding a way to make our own luck.

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AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Announces Closing of $200 Million Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock

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New DNA study of Neanderthals bolsters suspicions of human-driven extinction

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