The Blood Cancer That Became Solvable
by Works in Progress
If the science behind a cure is American, why did it have to be developed in China?
0:00 / 22:26 · Narrator Sulafat
Daily edition
2026-06-19
Today's Crosscut
Documenting the Real
AI-generated footage might make every nature film look fake, but an amateur with decades of patience found the mislabeled, dime-sized fossil that proved the experts wrong.
AI Animal Videos Are Ruining One of the Internet’s Last Good Things × A Vietnam Veteran Collected Fossils for 66 Years. One, Mislabeled 'Baby Lamprey,' Made Paleontologists Reconsider How Vertebrates Moved From Water to Land
0:00 / 22:00 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
The Next US Presidential Election Will Be About AI
by Nathan Gardels
If productivity no longer requires a paycheck, how will a democracy decide who gets a share?
0:00 / 15:08 · Narrator Algieba
Behind the news →
What is Poetry? Chelsey Minnis’s Frying Pan Full of Diamonds
by Jordan Castro
Can a poem be more honest when it stops trying to look sincere and starts wearing diamonds?
0:00 / 10:57 · Narrator Charon
Small delights →
'Cute Little Guy': Scientists Discover a Tiny Blue Species of Octopus by the Galápagos Islands
How does a tiny blue octopus wait a decade in a jar before finally receiving a name?
0:00 / 5:12 · Narrator Gacrux