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A startup says fusion turned mercury into gold, and gold traders are watching. The catch: CERN's record was 29 picograms that vanished in a split second, and fusion gold may stay radioactive 14-18 years. Listen in the Angle beta: newsangle.co/episode/0630ca7… #Fusion #Alchemy

Can fusion turn mercury into gold? Marathon Fusion’s claim | Angle

Kyle Schiller announced that his fusion startup had transmuted mercury into gold, pointing to a graph of radioactive peaks as proof.

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Jensen Huang's tumbling robot ducks are still all over X. The trick: 4,096 simulated ducks trained at once on one GPU, then the walk moved onto a real $399 Microduck with no retuning. Where does sim break? Listen in the Angle beta: newsangle.co/episode/28fd68b… #Robotics #NVIDIA

The Cliff in the Stride | Angle

Jensen Huang cheered four stumbling robot ducks on a Berlin stage, but testing their unprogrammed get-up revealed a quiet engineering cliff.

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LeBron is 41, in a record 24th season, and Barkley and Shaq are still arguing his GOAT case. At 40 he averaged 24.4 points; players over 40 historically averaged 6.6. How long can a body keep that up? Listen in the beta: newsangle.co/episode/8ed0be1… #NBA #LeBron #SportsScience

Which Nights to Play | Angle

At forty, LeBron James boasted he could play seven more years, until his back forced a sudden reckoning.

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Halloween is 6 days out and horror marathons are on. Why pay to be scared? In a Danish haunted house, fun peaked at moderate fear, not max terror. Americans spend $500M+ a year on haunts. Download the beta and listen: newsangle.co/episode/e1a2f78… #Horror #Psychology #Halloween

Flight Simulator for Dread | Angle

Doctoral researcher Coltan Scrivner followed visitors into a Danish haunted house to see why human bodies crave terror they can safely survive.

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UK clocks fell back overnight; the US follows Nov 1. Congress wants summer time for good. It tried in 1974: Florida saw 8 school-age traffic deaths that January vs 2 a year before, so winter DST was scrapped. Hear it in the beta: newsangle.co/episode/1a44afb… #DaylightSaving #Sleep

Before the Winter Bus | Angle

Representative Vern Buchanan wants to end clock changes forever, but the memory of a dark winter morning commute keeps stopping him.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 25

X wonders why soccer feels so new when ball games are ancient. Its rules were only written in 1863, with forward passes banned outright. Offside keeps changing: this year a "daylight" trial let a goal stand. Listen in the Angle beta: newsangle.co/episode/7add3cf… #Football #Offside

Where the Line Retires | Angle

Alejandro Díaz made soccer history by scoring a goal normally forbidden by law, but the governing board refuses to promise when the rules will change.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 24

Bryan Johnson calls aging a bug to patch. One real attempt: in 2018 a Harvard lab regrew a damaged mouse optic nerve in 2 weeks by resetting cells' age marks. Now it's in human trials. Download the beta and listen: newsangle.co/episode/7fd9857… #Longevity #Aging #Biotech

The Backup in the Cell | Angle

David Sinclair watched damaged mouse nerves regrow within weeks, but turning that cellular reset into a safe human medicine faced lethal biological barriers.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 24

Mars cities or fix Earth first? X is split. Gerard O'Neill pitched a third way: spinning space cylinders with Earth-like gravity, for maybe a million people. The catch: ~$4T just to launch the materials. Hear it in the beta: newsangle.co/episode/6b48c20… #Mars #Space

Cities on a Spool | Angle

Physicist Gerard O'Neill calculated that spinning hollow cylinders could house millions in space, until unmovable physics met an impossible construction bill.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 24

A new study says Van Gogh's Starry Night shows the real sky of July 22, 1889. Ever wonder who's out there? SETI has searched so little it's like dipping one glass into the ocean to check for fish. Listen in the Angle beta: newsangle.co/episode/6229290… #StarryNight #SETI #Space

A Glass Dipped in Ocean | Angle

In 1960, Frank Drake pointed an 85-foot radio dish at two nearby stars, betting humanity could end its cosmic loneliness.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 24

El Clásico is tomorrow. Real Madrid boss Florentino Pérez once warned that without a Super League, "by 2024 we're dead." His £4.5B breakaway fell apart in under 3 days. Download the beta and listen: newsangle.co/episode/020cf88… #ElClasico #SuperLeague #RealMadrid

Locking the Open Ladder | Angle

Florentino Pérez warned that football was dying, but his multi-billion-pound breakaway collapsed in less than three days.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 23

X is trading vivid-dream stories today. In 1953, sleepers woken mid eye-flicker recalled a dream 20 of 27 times. Amnesic patients even dreamed of Tetris they didn't remember playing. Hear it in the Angle beta: newsangle.co/episode/954b7e0… #Dreams #Sleep #Neuroscience

Eyes Behind the Lids | Angle

In a dim Chicago laboratory, Eugene Aserinsky watched his sleeping son's darting eyes, inadvertently igniting a debate over whether dreams mean anything at all.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 23

Christmas trees are in stores and the "deals" have begun. But Black Friday started as Philly cops' slang for gridlock, and Which? found most of its "bargains" cost the same or less at other times. Listen in the Angle beta: newsangle.co/episode/e81590c… #BlackFriday #Shopping

Gridlock on Page One | Angle

When reporter Joseph P. Barrett put a grim police nickname on page one, merchants tried desperately to rewrite the holiday rush.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 23

Gabriel Iglesias says Ozempic made food lose its appeal. Some users say the flatness spreads: sunsets, music, even sex feel "meh." One 54-year-old hit moderately severe depression 2 weeks after a dose bump. Hear it in the beta: newsangle.co/episode/ffb8387… #Ozempic #GLP1 #Health

The Pleasure Score | Angle

When a 54-year-old patient stepped up his semaglutide dose, his blood sugar improved, but his appetite for life suddenly disappeared.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 22

North Korea's sites have been dark for a day. When Tonga lost its undersea cable in 2022, it was cut off for weeks; one bank flew a thumb drive of accounts between islands daily. What would a week offline break? Listen in the beta: newsangle.co/episode/9296916… #Internet #Tonga

Flight of the Thumb Drive | Angle

Sitting under falling volcanic ash in Tonga, Sam Vea watched his phone go dark, unaware that the physical lifeline had snapped.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 22

Bond finalists face screen tests in London. 007's creator wrote a real spy plot first: Ian Fleming's 1939 Trout Memo, idea 28, a corpse dressed as an airman with fake papers. In 1943 it fooled Berlin. Hear it in the Angle beta: newsangle.co/episode/febcdc4… #JamesBond #Spies #History

A Life in the Pockets | Angle

In a London basement, Ewen Montagu scrambled to invent a convincing living persona around a corpse before Axis commanders deduced the obvious invasion target.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 22

The FAA just cleared the 737 MAX 10. The MAX story runs through MCAS: Boeing raised its nose-down push from 0.6° to 2.5° per activation, and pilots were never told it existed. 346 died. Download the beta and listen: newsangle.co/episode/885e29c… #Boeing #737MAX #Aviation

Air on the Tail | Angle

Mark Forkner saw Boeing's new flight software run rampant in a simulator, years before line pilots met its deadly consequences.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 22

Adults on X are relearning math from scratch. A bigger puzzle: did we invent math or discover it? Riemann's curved geometry sat on paper ~60 years before Einstein used it for gravity in 1915. Download the beta and listen: newsangle.co/episode/7c6a5e7… #Math #Philosophy #Physics

Pebble Piles and Shrinking Cores | Angle

Stunned by a graduate student's certainty that mathematics was discovered, Klaus Truemper began a forty-year inquiry that overturned his own beliefs.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 21

X is debating the 747-on-a-treadmill riddle: thrust, not wheels, flies a jet. But what if thrust stops? In 1983 a 767 ran dry at 41,000 ft after a metric fuel mix-up and glided to Gimli. All 69 survived. Listen in the Angle beta: newsangle.co/episode/66d663a… #Aviation #AvGeek

Dead-Stick to the Dragstrip | Angle

When both engines flamed out at 41,000 feet, Captain Bob Pearson had to steer an unpowered jetliner toward an abandoned runway.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 21

Apple just locked in US titanium for its first foldable iPhone. What comes next? Watch what it quietly buys: about one company every 2-3 weeks. PrimeSense, bought in 2013, became Face ID in 2017. Get the Angle beta and listen: newsangle.co/episode/44a07cf… #Apple #iPhone #Startups

Vanishing Into the Code | Angle

Aviad Maizels hesitated to pitch his radical interface startup even to a friend, before Apple spent billions to bring it inside.

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Angle@angle_newsappOct 21

Sleepy all day, wide awake at bedtime? X is swapping sleepless-night stories. One culprit: revenge bedtime procrastination. 91% of adults admit losing sleep to streaming. Hear why tired brains pick scrolling in the beta: newsangle.co/episode/eda9bed… #Sleep #Burnout #Neuroscience

Exhaust Smoke in the Synapse | Angle

After Dr. Dominic Ng went viral explaining post-work exhaustion, researchers uncovered why an overtired mind chooses scrolling over sleep.

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