There’s a surprising amount of science in a bag of potato chips. Researchers have spent decades developing potatoes for chip makers that can grow in all kinds of climates, avoid…
At 9 a.m. Eastern Time today, the price of oil sits at $101.14 per barrel, using Brent as the benchmark (we’ll explain what that means shortly). That’s an increase of…
Stephen and Ayesha Curry are globally famous and could probably get, well, pretty much anyone to pick up the phone. But when they needed just the right audience to taste…
Good morning. Checkr, used by businesses for an AI-powered background check service, has a new CFO ready to double down on AI in finance—and he built an app during onboarding.…
Earlier this month, Yale published the findings of a year-long faculty investigation into why Americans have lost faith in higher education. Ten tenured professors. Hundreds of consultations. Unanimous conclusions. That…
When Jerome Powell leaves the meetings that set the U.S. Federal Reserve’s base rate to go talk to the press, analysts and investors are on the edge of their seats.…
The assumptions health communicators have relied on for decades are spectacularly wrong. Doubts about nutrition, vaccination, and public safety recommendations are no longer a fringe view. They stem neither from…
For years, the working theory about health misinformation was reassuringly simple: it was a fringe problem, confined to a narrow slice of the population — the deeply partisan, the undereducated,…
For years, the narrative about European tech was one of unfulfilled promise — brilliant researchers, fragmented markets, and a chronic inability to scale. That story is changing. European AI funding…
