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The UK and EU have reached a trade agreement, avoiding the specter of a no-deal Brexit and ending years of extreme economic uncertainty on b...

Climate tech is driving the global transition toward clean energy, while the oil industry struggles to find its footing in a changing world....

Covid-19 vaccines are slowly spreading across the world as 2020 draws to a close. On Dec. 24, Mexico and Chile became the latest countries t...

President Donald Trump’s sudden demand for last-minute changes to plans for pandemic relief and government spending in 2021 has thrown Washi...

US president Donald Trump waited until his final full month in office to make a new rule dictating the look of federal buildings. Trump’s 20...

For the last century, the biggest, most powerful companies in the global energy market have been oil and gas producers. Slowly, though, the...

Brexit is done—almost. The document laying out the terms of a future relationship between the UK and the European Union has been agreed on i...

It’s the end of 2020, and around the world, we’re having socially distant meetings, wearing PPE, and hoping we—or those we encounter—aren’t...

It has been an annus horribilis, but not for bitcoin.The cryptocurrency is up over 200% this year and has been on a steady tear over the pas...

Unless you too achieved billionaire status in your 20s, Patrick and John Collison might make you feel like an underachiever. The Irish broth...

If you don’t live with teens and tweens, you may never have heard of Roblox. If you do live with them, you may hear about nothing else. More...

This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a resea...

For most people, this pandemic is (hopefully!) a once-in-a-lifetime event.The human experience for all 7.5 billion-plus people on earth has...

In a study published in the reputed medical journal the BMJ earlier this week, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...

With working from home becoming more mainstream, data from CoStar Group, a commercial real estate firm, shows that office rents in New York...

In January, my dental hygienist brought up architecture out of the blue. “How does a building work?” she asked, breaking from our usual smal...

On Dec. 23, the US government placed a second order for the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech, for 100 million doses. That br...

Consumer spending is a vital indicator of the financial health of a country. Luckily for both kids and the economy, Santa has been classifie...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s own words play a starring role in the government’s case to break up his social network.“It is better to buy t...

In late summer, as researchers accelerated the first clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccines for humans, a group of scientists in Colorado work...

Editor’s note: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency in charge of enforcing laws prohibiting discrimination in th...

The IPO is fiendishly difficult to disrupt. But Unity Software’s deal in September shows that the process of going public is still being pul...

When Boris Johnson and his Vote Leave allies launched their vision for a post-Brexit “Global Britain,” the UK pinned its hopes for geopoliti...

The race for a Covid-19 vaccine isn’t over, but its first leg has finally ended. And the pharmaceutical industry hasn’t delivered just on...

Kshitiz Bhutani, a media professional based in Mumbai, has recently tasted success in the stock market. As a first-time investor, much of wh...