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  • Refreezing the Arctic, brightening the clouds so they reflect the sun’s rays – the crazy but serious geoengineering ideas that could save our planet

    Refreezing the Arctic, brightening the clouds so they reflect the sun’s rays – the crazy but serious geoengineering ideas that could save our planet

    There is considerably less sea-ice in the Arctic than there used to be. Thanks to global warming, Arctic sea-ice is melting faster in the spring and taking longer to form in the autumn.

    Scientists who use satellite data to track Arctic sea-ice…

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  • 4 Stocks to Buy in January That Could Join Nvidia in the $1 Trillion Club by 2030

    4 Stocks to Buy in January That Could Join Nvidia in the $1 Trillion Club by 2030

    • Visa and ExxonMobil are highly efficient businesses that return capital to shareholders through buybacks and dividends.

    • Oracle is a high-risk, high-potential-reward bet on increased demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

    • Netflix deserves a premium valuation.

    • 10 stocks we like better than Visa ›

    Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) ended 2025 as the most valuable company in the world. It is one of nine S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) stocks with market capitalizations exceeding $1 trillion — the others being Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Broadcom, Tesla, and Berkshire Hathaway.

    Eli Lilly, Walmart, and JPMorgan Chase only need to rise 14% or less to expand the list to 12 companies.

    Here’s why Visa (NYSE: V), ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), and Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) have what it takes to be winning investments over the next five years and join the $1 trillion club by 2030.

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    Visa’s path to $1 trillion is fairly straightforward. The payment processor has high margins, a reasonable valuation, and steady earnings growth, and returns tons of capital to shareholders through buybacks and dividends.

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    Visa can generate high single-digit or double-digit earnings growth even during challenging periods.

    Despite slowdowns in consumer spending, Visa grew non-generally accepted accounting principles (non-GAAP) earnings per share by 14% in 2025. If Visa can maintain that growth rate going forward, it could reach a market cap well beyond $1 trillion by 2030.

    ExxonMobil will need to double in five years to surpass $1 trillion in market cap. It absolutely has what it takes.

    ExxonMobil is generating gobs of free cash flow (FCF) and high earnings, even though oil prices are hovering around four-year lows. It has reduced its production costs and can break even at low oil prices, and has plenty of upside potential during a higher-price environment. It also has a growing low-carbon business and a massive refining and marketing segment.

    ExxonMobil’s corporate plan through 2030 forecasts double-digit earnings growth even if oil and gas prices are mediocre. Although the U.S. Energy Information Administration is only forecasting $55 per Brent crude oil barrel in 2026, oil prices could rise in the coming years due to economic demand fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), as well as overall economic growth and geopolitical tensions.

    Either way, ExxonMobil doesn’t need a lot of help from oil prices to grow earnings at a solid pace. A 15% annual growth rate, compounded over five years, would double earnings. Given the stock’s reasonable volatility, it could double as well, pole-vaulting ExxonMobil over the $1 trillion bar.

    In the meantime, ExxonMobil investors will benefit from its stable and growing 3.4% dividend, which ExxonMobil has increased for 43 consecutive years.

    Oracle almost surpassed $1 trillion in market cap in September before falling over 40% from that high due to concerns about its AI spending and mounting debt.

    Oracle is ramping up spending to build out data center infrastructure to grow its cloud computing market share, especially for high-performance computing workflows. It exited its most recent quarter with $523 billion in remaining performance obligations, signaling demand is high for its infrastructure. But Oracle needs to convert capital expenditures into earnings. In the meantime, it is FCF negative, making Oracle a leveraged bet on increased AI adoption.

    Despite its risks, Oracle’s potential is impossible to ignore. Oracle is a great buy for investors who agree that its aggressive AI investments are the right long-term move and are willing to endure what will likely be a highly volatile period in the stock price.

    Over the last six months, Netflix’s market cap has slipped from over $560 billion to under $400 billion due to a mix of valuation concerns and uncertainties regarding its planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD). Netflix will probably receive regulatory approval for the acquisition, but still faces challenges from Paramount Skydance (NASDAQ: PSKY), which is attempting a hostile takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

    But with or without Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix has what it takes to steadily grow earnings through a combination of global subscriber growth and pricing power. If Netflix were to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, it could create a highly lucrative top-tier streaming platform that features content from both Netflix and HBO, as well as a revamped ad-supported tier.

    Even without HBO, Netflix has mastered the art of aligning content spending with steady subscription revenues, thanks to its depth and breadth of content — from building global franchises from scratch like Stranger Things, to the success of KPop Demon Hunters.

    Netflix has already demonstrated impeccable pricing power with multiple price increases in a relatively short amount of time and a crackdown on password sharing that was largely accepted by users — even during a period when people are pulling back on discretionary spending. So even if it doesn’t quite crack the $1 trillion club, I still fully expect Netflix to be a winning investment and outperform the S&P 500 over the next five years.

    With the broader indexes around all-time highs, it’s easy to get enamored by the companies that could surge in value in the coming months or in 2026. But a far more rewarding approach is to invest in companies that have what it takes to compound in value over the long term.

    Visa, ExxonMobil, Oracle, and Netflix certainly fit that mold. That’s why I expect all four stocks to outperform the S&P 500 and join the $1 trillion club over the next five years, even though they are currently far from reaching that milestone.

    Before you buy stock in Visa, consider this:

    The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and Visa wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

    Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004… if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $490,703!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005… if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $1,157,689!*

    Now, it’s worth noting Stock Advisor’s total average return is 966% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 194% for the S&P 500. Don’t miss the latest top 10 list, available with Stock Advisor, and join an investing community built by individual investors for individual investors.

    See the 10 stocks »

    *Stock Advisor returns as of January 4, 2026.

    JPMorgan Chase is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. Daniel Foelber has positions in Nvidia and Oracle and has the following options: short March 2026 $240 calls on Oracle. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Netflix, Nvidia, Oracle, Tesla, Visa, Walmart, and Warner Bros. Discovery. The Motley Fool recommends Broadcom and recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft and short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

    4 Stocks to Buy in January That Could Join Nvidia in the $1 Trillion Club by 2030 was originally published by The Motley Fool

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  • Comparative diagnostic accuracy of ChatGPT large language models and expert clinicians in complex oral and maxillofacial diseases

  • Younis, H. A. A systematic review and meta-analysis of artificial intelligence tools in medicine and healthcare: applications, considerations, limitations, motivation, and challenges. Diagnostics 14 (1), 109 (2024).

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  • Comparison between traditional and digital anterior repositioning splints on the upper airway in skeletal class II malocclusion with TMJ degenerative disease

  • Mercuri, L. G. Osteoarthritis, osteoarthrosis, and idiopathic condylar resorption. Oral Maxillofac. Surg. Clin. North. Am. 20(2), 169–83 (2008).

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  • GIA Examines Partially-Fake Pearl Jewelry Posing as Natural

    GIA Examines Partially-Fake Pearl Jewelry Posing as Natural

    The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) recently examined a pair of earrings it found to contain two assembled pearls with each base showing distinct layers of materials.

    The button-shaped, 7.40- and 9.37-carat pearls recently…

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  • Ancient bones reveal how animals lived in a lost world

    Ancient bones reveal how animals lived in a lost world

    Fossils usually tell stories through shape and size. Bones show how animals moved, teeth hint at diet, and skulls suggest behavior. Now, scientists have found a new way to learn from fossils by studying chemistry locked inside ancient bones.

    This…

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  • More staff deployed at Islamabad M-Tag centres as over 120,000 vehicles registered ahead of Jan 15 deadline – Dawn

    1. More staff deployed at Islamabad M-Tag centres as over 120,000 vehicles registered ahead of Jan 15 deadline  Dawn
    2. M-Tag installation deadline extended by 15 days  Dawn
    3. Scope of Islamabad Safe City Project to be expanded  The Nation (Pakistan )
    4. Here…

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  • Palo Alto Networks in negotiations to acquire one-year-old Israeli startup Koi for $4

    Palo Alto Networks in negotiations to acquire one-year-old Israeli startup Koi for $4

    Palo Alto Networks, the cybersecurity giant, is showing no signs of slowing its acquisition spree. After completing its $25 billion purchase of CyberArk in 2025, and acquisitions of Chronosphere for $3.35 billion and Protect AI for $500 million,…

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  • Increasingly Specific ctDNA Assays Are Set to Define the Future of Breast Oncology

    Increasingly Specific ctDNA Assays Are Set to Define the Future of Breast Oncology

    Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) testing is rapidly emerging as a powerful tool to detect minimal residual disease (MRD), guide treatment decisions, and potentially transform breast cancer care across the disease continuum, according to Jason…

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