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The coral reefs of Palmyra Atoll, part of Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, provide nurseries for many fish species. Andrew S. Wright/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr, CC BY-SA

Economy

Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s a problem for fishing’s future, and for whales, corals and other ocean life

Staff Writer - April 23, 2025

Not advisable. John Giles/PA Images via Getty Images

Economy

US universities lose millions of dollars chasing patents, research shows

DeepSeek’s language AI rocked the tech industry, but it comes up short on one measure. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images

Economy

Popular AIs head-to-head: OpenAI beats DeepSeek on sentence-level reasoning

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as his then-Fed chair nominee Jerome Powell steps to the lectern. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Economy

Trump’s attacks on central bank threaten its independence − and that isn’t good news for sound economic stewardship (or battling inflation)

Amazon partnered with Dominion Energy to build solar farms in Virginia to power its cloud-computing service. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Economy

Companies will still face pressure to manage for climate change, even as government rolls back US climate policy

Economy

Outlook for 2016: middle-class woes, hopeful on wages, the fear factor

Staff Writer - January 4, 2016

Economy

2015, the year that was: economics and business

Staff Writer - December 28, 2015

Economy

Gift-giving taboos that aren’t as bad as you think

Staff Writer - December 22, 2015

Economy

How plummeting prices are spurring reform in oil producing countries

Staff Writer - December 21, 2015

Economy

Why interest rates are taking divergent paths in Europe and the...

Staff Writer - December 6, 2015

Economy

Lost in the wine aisle? Winemakers want to know which labels...

Staff Writer - December 29, 2014

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EXPLORING NATURE

A frog-eating bat approaches a túngara frog, one of its preferred foods. Grant Maslowski

Education

Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal

Staff Writer - April 29, 2025

Logan S. James, The University of Texas at Austin; Rachel Page, Smithsonian Institution, and Ximena Bernal, Purdue University It...

The universe is filled with countless galaxies, stars and planets. Astronomers may find life one day, but they will need extraordinary proof. ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi

‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ − an astronomer explains how much...

April 27, 2025

Agricultural workers exposed to a hotter and drier climate are at an increased risk of kidney damage. George Rose/via Getty Images

Hotter and drier climate in Colorado’s San Luis Valley contributes to...

April 26, 2025

The coral reefs of Palmyra Atoll, part of Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, provide nurseries for many fish species. Andrew S. Wright/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr, CC BY-SA

Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s...

April 23, 2025

Western North Carolina six months after Hurricane Helene is storm-scarred and still recovering. Sean Rayford/Getty Images

I study local government and Hurricane Helene forced me from my...

April 22, 2025