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Sylvia Moy was a trailblazing Motown songwriter. L. Busacca/WireImage for Songwriter's Hall of Fame

Entrepreneurship

Motown’s Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut

Staff Writer - May 7, 2026

An artisanal miner holds a cobalt stone at a mine near Kolwezi, Congo, in 2022. About 20,000 people work there among toxic materials. Junior Kannah/AFP via Getty Images

Entrepreneurship

The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy is creating ‘sacrifice zones’ that harm water and health of world’s poor

Slack’s embrace of a ‘fail fast’ approach helped it become the world’s dominant intra-office messaging app. AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato

Entrepreneurship

Perseverance doesn’t always pay off for companies – sometimes it’s better to ‘fail fast’

The plan for a new Rays stadium looks promising. But will it deliver for Tampa taxpayers? Tampa Bay Rays

Entrepreneurship

Sorry, Tampa Bay, mixed‑use districts don’t reverse the dismal economics of sports venues

A long-running experiment is testing tree mixes to develop the healthiest forests. Mickey Pullen/Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Entrepreneurship

Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future

Hampshire College’s campus entrance on April 16, 2026, a few days after the school announced it is closing. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Entrepreneurship

Hampshire College’s demise is yet another blow to creative, outside‑the‑box options...

Staff Writer - April 18, 2026

Cannabis users have a variety of products to choose from. Arturo Barajas/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Entrepreneurship

Cannabis sales and use are high in Michigan – but federal...

Staff Writer - April 17, 2026

A vessel heads toward the Strait of Hormuz on April 8, 2026. Shady Alassar/Anadolu via Getty Images

Entrepreneurship

Strait of Hormuz: Why the US and Iran are sailing in...

Staff Writer - April 15, 2026

On ‘Shark Tank,’ the ‘sharks,’ or investors, hear pitches from entrepreneurs to invest in their business. Courtesy of ABC

Entrepreneurship

What I learned from analyzing 789 ‘Shark Tank’ pitches: Narcissists get...

Staff Writer - April 6, 2026

SpaceX is among the many companies that hope their initial public offerings take off. AP Photo/John Raoux

Entrepreneurship

SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs are unlikely to bring skyrocketing returns that...

Staff Writer - April 2, 2026

Ghostwriting sits at the nexus of collaboration and deception. EThamPhoto/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Entrepreneurship

If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate...

Staff Writer - March 25, 2026

Capstone Copper’s Pinto Valley Mine in Miami, Arizona. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Entrepreneurship

Global copper demand outstrips supply, threatening electrification and industrial growth

Staff Writer - March 20, 2026

Boosting pay for food delivery drivers is proving hard to pull off. Kevin Carter/Getty Images

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Seattle tried to guarantee higher pay for delivery drivers – here’s...

Staff Writer - March 19, 2026

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Tarot readings can encourage self-reflection. But what happens when you turn to AI to interpret the cards? Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Sally Hansen

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How tarot readers are using AI – and what it says...

Staff Writer - May 13, 2026

Ziv Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, University of Michigan, and Vana Goblot, Goldsmiths, University of London

MP Materials’ Mountain Pass mine and processing facility in California was for years the only U.S. rare earth elements mine. Tmy350/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The missing link in America’s critical minerals push isn’t mining –...

May 11, 2026

Henry David Thoreau investigated the Sudbury River as America’s first river scientist. Robert M. Thorson

Thoreau the scientist – how environmental research informed ‘Walden’ and later works

May 10, 2026

Large-scale wildfires seem to turn visitors away, while prescribed burning may have the opposite effect. Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Fire is transforming the US West’s public lands – research shows...

May 6, 2026

This screenshot juxtaposes a fossil of stem from the plant Archaeopitys eastmanii (bottom) and a close-up of its vascular system (top). The specimen was found in Kentucky and is over 350 million years old. Ingrid C. Romero, CC BY-SA

Galaxies of life are collecting dust in museums – digitizing microscope...

May 5, 2026