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For most of the post-war period, Germany's economic model was almost perfectly calibrated for the conditions it faced. A highly skilled industrial workforce. Deep expertise in mech…
The brief filed in a federal district court in Manhattan in 2023 contained citations to six cases that did not exist. The lawyer who filed it, using an AI legal research tool that …
Few pieces of territory on earth carry as much contradictory weight as the Brazilian Amazon. It is simultaneously the largest tropical rainforest in the world and one of the most c…
Load shedding. The South African term for scheduled power cuts entered common usage sometime around 2008 and has not left since. At its worst, it has meant twelve hours a day witho…
Somewhere between 2020 and now, the mental geography of American cities shifted. The hierarchy that held for most of the twentieth century, with New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago …
There is a version of the American border story that lives entirely in Washington, expressed in terms of enforcement budgets, detention capacity, and legislative standoffs. Then th…
The decoupling of American and Chinese supply chains is beginning to show up in the data in ways that are reshaping global commerce. New research documents a significant diversific…
A team of researchers at the University of Chicago and IBM has demonstrated a quantum computing system capable of solving a specific class of optimization problems faster than any …
A landmark study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine has found a strong association between regular consumption of ultra-processed foods and accelerated cogn…
Alarming data on adolescent mental health has spurred rare bipartisan agreement in Congress, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are advancing legislation that would impose …
Oceanographers exploring the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific have documented an unexpectedly rich and previously unknown ecosystem clustered around a cluster of deep-sea hyd…
The artificial intelligence revolution is accelerating faster than even its architects predicted, and the ripple effects are beginning to reshape the American workforce in ways bot…
A synthesis of recent research published in the journal Science suggests that several major climate tipping points — self-reinforcing thresholds beyond which changes become irrev…
