
Economists Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach Three economists working in the…

Chris Putnam/Future Publishing via Getty Images Governments of all stripes provide support to small businesses in the form of tax…

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The NIH is a node in an interconnected system producing health and medical advances. Anchalee Phanmaha/Moment via Getty Images In…

Claudio Schwarz/Unsplash, CC BY Australia’s workforce is almost evenly split between men and women. Yet fewer than one in four…

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Chef Phila Lorn prepares a bowl of noodle soup at Mawn restaurant in Philadelphia. AP Photo/Matt Rourke The Philadelphia restaurant…

Steelmaking uses a lot of energy, making it one of the highest greenhouse gas-emitting industries. David McNew/Getty Images The U.S.…
The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In…
