The U.S. Navy’s Subsea Rare Earth Vulnerability
by Ryan Musto
How do you build a stealth submarine when a rival controls the metals that keep it quiet?
0:00 / 16:36 · Narrator Charon
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2026-08-10
Today's Crosscut
Revising Origin Stories
Instead of digging for fossils in the dirt, researchers are reading the genetic code of living microbes and modern humans to reconstruct ancient ancestors the earth erased long ago.
A New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth by Tracing Early Chemical Reactions in Single-Celled Organisms × The Human-Origin Story is Being Radically Revised
0:00 / 20:37 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
Behind the news →
When Buddhist Robes Meet Sri Lankan Law
by Rathindra Kuruwita
How do you enforce the law when respect for a religious leader becomes a form of immunity?
0:00 / 8:20 · Narrator Gacrux
For the curious →
Your Deepest Regrets Help You See Yourself More Clearly
by Joshua Halberstam
What do the lives you never lived say about the person you became?
0:00 / 11:19 · Narrator Algieba
Small delights →
We Wouldn’t Be Here Without Poop
by Sabrina Imbler
How did sinking animal waste bring life to the bottom of the ocean?
0:00 / 14:32 · Narrator Sulafat
Smart escape →
Forgotten Histories: Awadh-born Mir Aulad Ali’s Impact on 19th Century Dublin
by Khalid Bin Umar
How did a Muslim scholar from northern India end up fighting to save the Irish language?
0:00 / 9:12 · Narrator Rasalgethi