Thousands of We Energies customers are still without power the evening of July 3 after severe thunderstorms moved through southern Wisconsin. According to the We Energies outages map, 16,731 customers ...

For decades, China looked to the U.S. as its economic teacher. Then came the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. It was a remarkable moment. A senior Chinese official, in the heart of American ...

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An Editor at Large: Speaking as a recently naturalized U.S. citizen, columnist Gerard Baker makes the case that America’s greatness far outweighs its faults, and can learn from Britain in 1977—the ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that bacteria can learn from past experiences, store memories across generations and adapt their behavior to changing environments, all without a ...

Costco's really been cracking down on non-members lately. It's no longer enough to just flash your card at the employee at the door. At many locations, you now have to scan the barcode at the door.

The accounting profession has spent the past few years debating whether private equity represents an opportunity or a threat. The market may now be offering an opinion — and it deserves more attention ...

For a growing swathe of Australians, “forever renting” has become the new norm. Renting is no longer a youthful rite of passage or a transitional phase on the way to home ownership. Given these ...

When I started writing my latest book on hope, I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to say. The world doesn’t exactly make hope feel easy these days. There always seems to be another headline ...

Presumably aimed at children, NHK World’s Texico program teaches the main ideas about programming without actually using a computer. Instead, it uses items like a toy train, playing cards, and other ...

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Doron Zeilberger is a mathematician who believes that all things come to an end. That just as we are limited beings, so too does nature have boundaries — and therefore so do numbers. Look out the ...