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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a smoke-filled tavern to discuss a secret plan: If they raise prices together instead of competing, they can both make more money. But that kind of intentional price-fixing, called collusion, has long been illegal. The widget merchants decide not to risk it, and everyone else gets to enjoy cheap widgets.For well over a century, US law has followed this basic…

Slovenia’s parliament had approved a law in July, allowing assisted dying after a 2024 referendum supported it.Published On 23 Nov 202523 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareSlovenians have rejected in a referendum a law that allowed terminally ill adults to end their lives, after critics mounted a campaign against the legislation.About 53 percent of 1.7 million eligible voters voted against the law that proposed legalising assisted dying, according to preliminary results released by the election authorities on Sunday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe results mean the law’s implementation will be suspended for at least one year.…

How to solve today’s Wordle.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesMonday is here and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Time to buy your frozen turkeys (assuming you didn’t go out hunting for yours) and your canned cranberries and pumpkin pie filling, your green beans and bags of potatoes. And time to solve this Wordle!Looking for Sunday’s Wordle? Check out our guide right here.Today’s Bonus WordleNow that we can create our own custom Wordles, I’m including a bonus Wordle with each daily Wordle guide. These can be 4 to 7 letters long. Hopefully this is a fun extra challenge.Here’s today’s bonus custom…

Season 1 of Landman introduced viewers to the intense world of oil company crisis manager Tommy Norris and set records for the Paramount Plus streaming service.The hit drama co-created by Taylor Sheridan, which chronicles modern-day fortune-seeking in the land of oil rigs, is currently debuting its second season. Season 2 picks up after the events of the first, while Norris faces growing pressure from M-Tex Oil and Demi Moore’s character Cami Miller, per Paramount Plus. It includes the return of Andy Garcia’s cartel boss from Landman’s season 1 finale and sees Sam Elliott join the cast to play the father of Norris. The first season of…

Hospitals need to become smaller, with fewer beds, to help save the NHS from its “permacrisis”, a thinktank has said.The role hospitals play needs to undergo “a fundamental reinvention” to help them escape the overcrowding that has become widespread over the last decade, according to the thinktank Re:State.Politicians and NHS leaders will have to be prepared to push through a potentially controversial programme of downsizing hospitals for the service to remain viable, it adds.The thinktank – formerly called Reform – argues in a new report that doing so will save the NHS billions of pounds, lead to better care for…

Another Sunday, another full slate of NFL action nearly in the books. And Week 12 has already produced lots of drama.That’s not even accounting for the Kansas City Chiefs overcoming an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit to knock off the Indianapolis Colts in overtime. Or Shedeur Sanders making his first career NFL start for the Cleveland Browns, who wasted no time going up two scores on the Las Vegas Raiders.Which players, coaches and teams were the biggest winners and losers of Sunday’s games? Here goes: Down 11 points in the fourth quarter against the Colts, Mahomes looked truly in danger of falling below .500…

A piece of stone age “gum” chewed by a teenage girl 10,500 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists in Estonia.The Institute of History and Archaeology at the University of Tartu discovered the prehistoric birch tar had impressions of teeth marks and traces of saliva.The substance, synthesised by the dry distillation of bark from a birch tree, can also be used as an adhesive.After extracting DNA from the saliva, the university’s Institute of Genomics found the gum was probably chewed by a girl with brown hair and brown eyes.“The institute holds DNA samples from 20% of Estonia’s population, providing scientists…

“The Golden Age of Travel Starts With You.”The U.S. Department of Transportation has launched a promotional campaign centered around civility for air travelers, suggesting in part that air travelers “dress with respect” during their flights. Titled “The Golden Age of Travel Starts With You,” the program appears to center around five main pillars: helping pregnant women and elderly passengers with their carryon bags, dressing with respect, keeping control of children, and saying please and thank you, both broadly and specifically to flight attendants. The accompanying video started off showing promotional and advertising footage from air travel in the mid-20th Century (some even…

European countries proposed a radical alternative Ukraine peace plan on Sunday that omits some of the pro-Russia points made in the original US-backed document and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected.The counter-proposal emerged as US, Ukrainian and international negotiators met in Switzerland. The 28-point US document leaked last week demands Ukraine hand over territory to Russia, limits the size of its army and agrees not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes.As discussions began in Geneva, Donald Trump said Ukraine had shown “zero gratitude” for US efforts to end the conflict. In a conciliatory response, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said…

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has denied leaks ahead of the Budget have damaged the economy, following criticism the speculation has “caused paralysis among businesses and consumers”.Recent months have been dominated by media reports about which taxes could increase, with multiple potential measures floated by the government.Former Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme this was “the single biggest reason why [economic] growth has flatlined”.In response, Alexander said there was always speculation in the run-up to Budgets but the chancellor had been clear about her priorities.Chancellor Rachel Reeves is widely expected to increase…