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President Trump's global trade wars may indeed drive manufacturing back to the U.S. – just not in the way he predicted.
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Big technology firms are becoming known for mistreating workers, customers and society as a whole. Is an economic powerhouse…
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An AC/DC-loving biologist tests the band's 1980 assertion that "rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution."…
A new type of antibiotic uses DNA to fight a common deadly microbe, _Clostridium difficile_. These new drugs are inexpensive…
Robotic milkers, video cameras and even sensors hidden inside the body will help this dairy farm figure out how to get the…
Everybody does it, but why? Scientists aren't really sure if exhaustion, stress or some other social factor is at the…
How did civilization emerge from small groups of hunter-gatherers? Some archaeologists focus on cooperation as the vital…
An astronomer suggests an idea to piggyback on the ambitious Breakthrough Starshot project that aims to send nano spacecraft…
It's annoying when your bus route gets off schedule or when buses bunch together. Why has it taken engineers so long…
World Cup jerseys have to please players, national officials, FIFA rulemakers and – perhaps most importantly – fans…
It's a psychological quirk that when something becomes rarer, people may spot it in more places than ever. What is the…
About 5 percent of all UFO sightings cannot be easily explained by weather or human technology. A physicist argues that…
An asteroid on a collision course with Earth is inevitable. Astronomer Michael Lund explains how a new telescope under construction…
China's government is prioritizing world-class science and tech. An expert describes the Chinese research landscape…
Without secure records of property ownership, many poor people around the world have trouble improving their economic situations.…