After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson.

Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking wa...

High interest rates and political uncertainty have data-center startups and other tech companies rethinking their go-public timing: ‘Are We Screwed?’

Twenty-four tankers and other vessels targeted by Iran in two weeks, including six on Sunday alone

Is there an AI bubble? Some indicators point to one — and when bubbles burst, there can be massive shocks in housing and job markets that last for years.

The transition into menopause may be an important window for identifying cardiovascular risks that could have long-term consequences.

Scientists discovered that declining levels of a protein called Menin may help drive aging, and restoring it in older mice reversed several age-related changes in just 30 days. Even more surprisingly,...

Dani Rodrik thinks the focus should be on deploying and disseminating existing innovations throughout the economy.

Republicans have dominated Alaska for years. But there are distinct issues roiling the state’s races now.

Pennsylvania promises legal help to those who say they were unfairly convicted of crimes. Failed by a troubled system, some incarcerated people are left waiting years for their lawyers to act.

Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away

The Woodford framework has real bugs, but it is still far and away the best one to think with; a 1999 Princeton seminar with 1/3 of its students going on to high-status research university tenure...

Trump has long coveted the prize and heaped pressure on the committee to award it to him

At a Colorado cold lab, scientists race to better understand hail in a warming world.

Last winter, Soldier Hollow Nordic Center covered an apartment-sized snow pile with insulated blankets in the hope the pile would last through the summer - Utah's hottest on record. This is what happened.

Mortgage rates hit 7.49%, reducing home buying as younger households face the lowest homeownership rate since 2017.

A Black city tried to rein in abusive policing. Then Trump’s task force arrived.

Yelp searches for "air conditioning near me" were up 145% in the summer of 2026.

With great fanfare, President Donald Trump announced last week that “the largest steel plant ever built in the United States” would be coming to Lee County, Iowa, adding that Mesabi Metallics’ $15 billion investment in a pivotal midterm swing state proved his “powerful 50% tariffs” were working. He’s right: The announcement is a tangible result of American steel policy — but, contrary to what the president said, that’s not a good thing.

His political capital is gone and the repo man is on the way.

Carson's writing, including The Beauty of the Husband, Autobiography of Red, and Eros the Bittersweet, is eclectic in genre and theme.

Factory Construction and wages may not be up, but beef prices and mortgages are

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

The “only one trade” is the AI trade, of course; the FT’s “Unhedged” podcast—that is something I am definitely long...

The average size of the world's monitored wildlife populations has fallen 73% since 1970, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund.

Healthcare jobs that have driven U.S. job growth are being threatened by massive cuts in reimbursement from the Trump administration and Congress.

A new University of Missouri study has compared rural counties with renewable power plants to those without and found those with wind projects saw economic output, or GDP, increase about 7%.

For Paige Hansen, changing the food system starts with changing the ingredients. After dealing with a dairy allergy in adulthood, Hansen developed an alternative milk using buckwheat, a gluten-free food ingredient popular among people with celiac disease.

Last winter, Soldier Hollow Nordic Center covered an apartment-sized snow pile with insulated blankets in the hope the pile would last through the summer - Utah's hottest on record. This is what happened.

Surging demand from data centers and air conditioners put the US power system through a tough test this summer. But instead of triggering a jump in fossil-fuel use, record renewables output carried mu...

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

Can me + my machines read the books that I will never have time to? I read half as manyserious books as I used to. Can my systems fake it? & are the systems in which I am a component really faking it?