If you happen to be on a Texas highway sometime this summer, and see a 50,000-pound semi truck barreling along with nobody behind the wheel, just remember: A self-driving truck is less likely to kill ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said climate change is far from being one of the biggest problems the world is facing. Wright’s remarks are the latest attempt from the Trump administration to downplay ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

The US is slowly bidding farewell to pennies as one-cent production is being phased out. Fast-food chains are making small changes to customers' final bills in the absence of pennies. Chains like ...

This wasn’t a clever marketing ploy. The ad directly urged customers to think twice before purchasing, to fix existing gear before replacing it, and to buy and sell second-hand. This was a real ...

Businesses around the U.S. are desperate for pennies. President Trump's decision to stop producing the penny earlier this year is leaving some merchants short of the one-cent coin and struggling to ...

In 2017, Brent Malicote, the associate superintendent at the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE), asked superintendent Dave Gordon for $35,000 to try something small. The plan was simple: ...

Climate change doesn’t just pose an existential threat to our planet. It’s also ratcheting up national security risks. With increasing food insecurity, resource scarcity and unstable borders, climate ...

Until July 1, 2025, Shelley Inglis served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). That ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — While quarterback speculation dominates Browns headlines this week, Tuesday’s Orange and Brown Talk podcast exposed a sobering reality: Cleveland’s offensive issues run much deeper ...

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