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"God According to Spinoza": The Truth Behind the Viral Text — and the God the Philosopher Really Taught

A tender text where God tells Spinoza to "stop praying and enjoy life" has circulated for years across social media. It is genuinely moving — but Spinoza never wrote it. Its real author is Mexican writer Anand Dilvar. Here is where the text truly comes from, why it was pinned on Spinoza, and the far more radical idea of God the philosopher actually left us.

A New Baby Panda Arrives in Korea as a Decade of Conservation Research Is Celebrated

On June 3, 2026, a female giant panda cub was born at Everland in South Korea to parents Ai Bao and Le Bao — the country’s third successful natural panda birth. It arrives as Panda World marks 10 years of Korea–China joint conservation research.

A magnetic sponge that pulls invisible microplastics and PFAS out of water in minutes

RMIT University researchers developed a magnetic, MOF-based adsorbent that removes more than 95% of micro- and nanoplastics — down to particles as small as 30 nanometres — plus some PFAS and heavy metals within an hour, then lifts out of the water with a magnet.

CRISPR Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Is Now Approved for Young Children

On 2 July 2026, the FDA expanded the CRISPR gene therapy Casgevy to children as young as two with sickle cell disease or transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia — offering a one-time treatment before years of cumulative damage set in.

At 64, He Graduated as a Nurse—Studying at University Alongside His Own Son

John Adesoye grew up in a poor farming family in Nigeria and never expected to attend university. At 64, the father of five graduated as a nurse in Bristol, UK—having studied at the same university as his son—and landed a job at Southmead Hospital.

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"God According to Spinoza": The Truth Behind the Viral Text — and the God the Philosopher Really Taught

A New Baby Panda Arrives in Korea as a Decade of Conservation Research Is Celebrated

A magnetic sponge that pulls invisible microplastics and PFAS out of water in minutes

CRISPR Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Is Now Approved for Young Children

At 64, He Graduated as a Nurse—Studying at University Alongside His Own Son

A Bride’s Engagement Ring Flew Off During Her Wedding—A Volunteer Metal Detectorist Found It in Minutes

Laureus brings its Sport for Good network to Dallas with new youth sports grants

How Community Football Is Keeping Young People Out of Trouble in England and Wales

UNESCO Adds 25 New World Heritage Sites — All by Consensus

New Zealand’s Kākāpō Enjoy Their Best Breeding Season on Record

WHO Recommends a Twice-Yearly Injection to Prevent HIV

He Has Worked the Same Job for 50 Years—and Never Once Called in Sick

A Lonely 4-Year-Old’s Daily Wave Turned a Neighborhood of Strangers Into a Community

Stolen and Recovered, a Van Gogh Returns to View — Truer Than Before

DeepMind’s “AI co-scientist” proposes drug ideas that held up in the lab

Pulling drinking water out of thin air — even in 20% humidity

A Restaurant Owner Found $12,000 Hidden in an Old Cabinet — and Tracked Down Its Rightful Owner Live on TV

A Sea Worm’s “Bio-Metal” Jaws Reveal a Whole New Class of Material

HPV Vaccines Are on Track to Save Over a Million Lives from Cervical Cancer

An AI research agent proposes a new treatment lead for a leading cause of blindness

Salt instead of lithium: a sodium battery built to last 15,000 cycles for the grid

One of the Most Powerful Treatments for Depression and Anxiety May Be Exercise

AI that reads a billion years of evolution shortens the search for rare-disease genes

For the First Time, UK Drivers Bought More Electric Cars Than Petrol Ones

Physicists Learn to Nudge Time’s Arrow Backward in a Quantum System

Guinea Worm Disease Reaches All-Time Low With Just 10 Cases in 2025

In Savannah, a Fridge on the Sidewalk Is Fighting Hunger — Stocked by Neighbors, Free for All

Two new medical AIs match or exceed doctors on diagnosis — while keeping clinicians in charge

France Creates Nine Biological Reserves, Protecting 157,000 More Hectares of Forest

A Battery-Free “Artificial Leaf” Turns Sunlight and CO₂ Into Fuel

A cleaner, faster way to pull lithium for batteries — no giant ponds required

Vinyl Crosses $1 Billion in the US — A 19th Straight Year of Growth

French Polynesia Creates a Marine Sanctuary the Size of France

New Evidence Confirms Malaria Vaccine Is Saving Children’s Lives Across Africa

Thousands of Strangers Send Hay to Nebraska Ranchers After the Largest Wildfire in State History

The UK Begins Its Largest-Ever Seagrass Restoration in a Cornish Bay

Apple brings AI to its accessibility tools — richer descriptions, live subtitles and eye-controlled wheelchairs

A Tiny Device Brings Quantum Entanglement to Room Temperature

A Louisville Restaurant Gives Away 100% of Its Profits — and Topped $100,000 in Year One

Webb Telescope Solves Saturn’s Decades-Long Spin Mystery

A Quiet Cemetery Hides Millions of Helpful Wild Bees

Webb Telescope Watches Rock Clouds Form and Vanish on a Distant World

A Simple Nasal Spray Reverses Signs of Brain Aging in the Lab

For 30 Years, Oakland Neighbors Have Volunteered to Keep an Urban Creek Pristine

One in Four New Cars Is Now Electric — and the Numbers Keep Climbing

A Tiny Blue Octopus Found in the Deep Sea Off the Galápagos

'We Expected 50 People': Hundreds Show Up to a Springfield Mutual Aid Event

Barcelona reclaim the Women Champions League with a 4-0 final win in Oslo

A Cleaner, Faster Way to Pull Lithium for EV Batteries

AI-equipped camera network spotted 915 California wildfires before anyone called them in

A Clever Coating Pushes Tandem Solar Cells Toward Higher Efficiency

MIT Finds an Everyday Amino Acid That Helps the Gut Heal Itself

Florida’s Sea Turtles Have a Banner Year, With Leatherbacks Setting a New Record

For the First Time Ever, Wind and Solar Out-Generated Gas Worldwide

A Humpback Whale Crossed Two Oceans, Setting a 15,000-Kilometre Record

AI-powered brain implants move from trials toward real-world use for people with paralysis

Florida's Indian River Lagoon Sees Seagrass Surge Back by 7,000 Hectares

260 Volunteers Build the UK's Largest Oyster Reef Restoration Off Portsmouth

A Commencement Speaker Surprised 200 Graduates by Paying Off Their Final-Year Loans

Ethiopian Fossils Show Two Human Relatives Lived Side by Side

Canada makes its AI-hybrid weather model operational to give people more warning of severe storms

A Hidden Mathematical Pattern Found in a Houseplant’s Leaves

After Decades of Putting It Off for Family, She Graduated Medical School at 72

US Drug Overdose Deaths Fall Again, Lowest Since 2019

Nobel laureate's machine pulls thousands of liters of clean water from thin air

Wireless smart rings translate sign language into text in real time, no cameras or gloves needed

Hubble Captures a Giant, Chaotic Nursery Where Planets Are Born

New perovskite tandem solar cells push past 30% efficiency, even when flexible

A Homeless Man Returned a Family’s Stolen Dog Ashes—And a Community Gave Him a Home

After a Century-Long Ban, Paris Reopens the Seine for Swimming Again

A Grieving Mother Held Her Late Daughter’s Hand Again—Through the Stranger Who Received It

Malaria Vaccine Averts One in Eight Child Deaths, Study Confirms

A New Long-Necked Dinosaur from Brazil Reveals an Ancient Land Bridge

A Decade of Tracking Whale Sharks Helps Create a New Marine Park in Indonesia

Gretchen Walsh lowers her own 100m butterfly world record once again

Ghana Creates Its First-Ever Marine Protected Area

Neighbors Wade Into Hawaiian Floodwaters to Save 15 Horses — Then Help Rescue People Too

Cherie DeVaux becomes the first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby

When Their Bus Driver Lost Consciousness, Five Students Took the Wheel and Saved Everyone