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A new study published in Medical Xpress suggests the sleeping brain isn't simply going quiet during REM sleep — it's turning its attention inward. EEG recordings show patterns consistent with internal processing, raising fresh questions about what dreaming actually does for cognition and memory consolidation.

On the money side of tech, Trump-linked World Liberty Financial has received a conditional bank charter that would allow a dedicated trust company to take over issuance of its USD one stablecoin from BitGo. It's a significant institutional step, and it signals that stablecoin projects with political backing are finding real footholds in traditional financial infrastructure.

And rounding out today's stories, Scientific American revisits a genuinely elegant piece of physics history — the insight Galileo published three hundred eighty eight years ago explaining why biology and geometry simply don't scale. Bone strength grows with the square of size while body mass grows with the cube, which means human giants would collapse under their own weight. Some limits are written in math.

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