Bank opacity and deposit rates

Why 'basic science' is the foundation of innovation

Most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades – study

A superforecaster shares what bottom-feeders can teach about consuming media

Intraoperative tumor histology may enable more-effective cancer surgeries

A robot learns to lip sync

Global ripple effects of corporate tax reforms

Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study

Using the physics of radio waves to empower smarter edge devices

The places we make memories help us inscribe them

Small-time crypto investors are facing violent attacks

The "self-help" books genre holds up an unflattering mirror to society

Transformative and subsistence entrepreneurs: Impacts on economic growth

Decentralized social media platforms unlock authentic consumer feedback

Nature-inspired computers are shockingly good at math

Product quality improvement and US manufacturing productivity

Chinese bookings at Japan hotels surge for Lunar New Year despite tensions

JMW Turner, more a Buffett than a Jane Street intern

New reporting rules end crypto’s tax secrecy era

How to read more? We might take instruction from a more leisurely age

Hidden Fortunes (2024)

The year of unaffordability

What is human capital?

'The Tree of Life' review: The ancestor at the root of it all

Rediscovering an American court portraitist

Does tax avoidance trickle down?

How tax trackers influence wealthy Americans' holiday plans

Solid-state batteries charge faster, last longer: review

To get better at filtering the good ideas from the bad, by paying attention

How the world of work will change over the next 20 years

The dollar game

Let boredom be the mother of invention

Retailers are pushing store brands. Why wings and macarons are big money makers

Anatomy of US inequality

Ant societies rose by trading individual protection for collective power

'War and Power' review: Off the battlefield, another fight

How has public history changed since 1951?

Shoshana Zuboff: 'AI is surveillance capitalism continuing to evolve and expand'

North Korean hackers stole a record $2B of crypto in 2025, Chainalysis says

LinkedIn's war against bot scrapers ramps up as AI gets smarter

In echo of Jurassic Park, mosquitoes capture ecosystems in their blood meals

Why Wall Street is booming while Main Street is stagnating

The claims of close reading

China is worried about AI job losses

Home humanoid: Google DeepMind shows Apptronik’s robot doing real-world tasks

'The History of Money’ review: What made the world go round

Why is manufacturing productivity growth so low?

Gilded glory

When it comes to language, context matters

China & EU countries lead objections to Trump carve-out on global minimum tax

'Ludwig Wittgenstein' review: An attack on the abstract

Dilution vs. Risk taking: Capital gains taxes and entrepreneurs

Indonesia resists US trade deal 'poison pill'

Air pollution may reduce health benefits of exercise

How the brain decides what to remember

Kalshi hit as Nevada judge deems platform subject to gambling laws; will appeal

The corrupt culture of sports gambling

The pedant's progress through history

The silver bullet fallacy

Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model

'Kant' review: A purer understanding

How sea turtles learn locations using Earth’s magnetic field: research

Why top firms fire good workers

Ancient ‘animal GPS’ identified in magnetic fossils

Quantum computing needs its own industrial revolution

How can DOGE fix federal IT? Lock out vendor lock-in

The longest-running newspaper

Noninvertible symmetries: What's done cannot be undone

Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to 'delete all IP law'

Crushed by capitalism? There's a video game for that

Free zones score early wins against global minimum tax

The US reduced debt following World War II and what it would take to do so again

Does quantum gravity happen at the Planck scale?

Even before the Big Bang, space wasn't truly empty

Utah Digital Choice Act: giving users data & encouraging platform competition

Remember the physics at play in pursuit of longevity

Average credit card processing fees and costs in 2025

Micron chip factories in Upstate NY will be delayed by 2-3 years, company says

Data collected by ALPRs used by police in Washington must be made public: judge

Chinese EV maker plans to use solid-state batteries in humanoid robots

Concealed deals drive up 401(k) fees

The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire

Private vices, public benefits?

Italy's flat tax is a mounting fiscal gamble the US has mirrored

The cloud is really just someone else's computer

Sir Tim Berners-Lee believes it's time to build the intention economy online

Palantir sues former employees for allegedly stealing company secrets

Ex-McKinsey consultants are training AI models to replace them

Is your ultra-HD TV worth it? Measuring the resolution limit of the human eye

Toyota's solid-state EV battery dreams might actually come true

Why does matter even exist? Physicists help uncover clues

Book review: Overfitting and heuristics in philosophy

OpenAI is paying ex-investment bankers $150 an hour to train its AI

Talent is directed by capital, not the collective will of citizens

Book review: 'The origins of efficiency'

Text or pixels? On the token efficiency of visual text inputs in multimodal LLMs

A backlash is growing against another elite practice: 'Legacy' admissions

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