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Boosting EV market share to 67% of US car sales is a huge leap – but automakers can meet EPA’s tough new standards

Staff Writer - April 14, 2023

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Can Silicon Valley’s autocrats save democracy?

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Taste alone won’t persuade Americans to swap out beef for plant-based burgers

SEEGRAIN in the outstretched hand of Rodin's hero citizen of Calais is a monumental symbol of the mission to establish trust, good faith, and collaboration among all

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The 21st Century Gold Rush has Just Begun—and it’s in the form of a zinc alloy miniature vault door, selling faster than pre-sold hot...

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Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine – and what that means for the global food system

Amazon Web Services, hosted in data centers like this one in Virginia, supports thousands of websites, apps and online services – but not during its recent DNS outage. Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Economy

What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of...

Staff Writer - November 2, 2025

Family businesses are everywhere. What makes them so common? Mint Images RF via Getty Images

Economy

Why do family companies even exist? They know how to ‘win...

Staff Writer - December 2, 2025

Dusk in downtown Lumberton, county seat in Robeson County, N.C., the most diverse rural county in America. AP Photo/David Goldman

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6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong

Staff Writer - December 9, 2025

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How to win the gift-stealing game Bad Santa, according to a mathematician

Staff Writer - December 16, 2022

The silhouettes of the container cranes in the Port of Balboa in Panama City on Feb. 24, 2026. Martin Bernetti/ AFP via Getty Images

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Far from random, China’s global port network is clustering near the...

Staff Writer - March 4, 2026

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EXPLORING NATURE

Backcountry skiing can be risky, particularly after heavy, wet snow. AscentXmedia/E+ via Getty Images

Environment

Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and...

Staff Writer - February 19, 2026

Nathalie Vriend, University of Colorado Boulder A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and their guides near...

Warmer winters in normally snowy places can interfere with the important activities of microbes in the soil. Seogi/500px via Getty Images

Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the...

February 17, 2026

Coffee farming is critical to the economies of several African countries. Wang Guansen/Xinhua via Getty Images

Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes –...

February 17, 2026

Rising global temperatures are increasing the risk of heat stroke on hot days, among many other human harms. Ronda Churchill/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...

February 12, 2026

Portland cement, widely used for concrete, is responsible for about 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Photovs/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Polymers from earth can make cement more climate-friendly

February 12, 2026