In July 2024, the Council Office of Financial Analysis (COFA) reported that Chicago, Illinois was witnessing a struggling job market, a decrease in multifamily housing starts and a rise in ...

Escalating political tension between the United States and China is throttling the exchange of scientific research and making it harder for the US to attract and retain talented Chinese scholars, ...

In the heart of the Middle East, where golden sands dance in the embrace of the desert winds, a remarkable metamorphosis is unfolding in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This transformation, akin to the ...

There are many potential starting points in Kamala Harris’s origin story, but perhaps the most relatable begins in India with two parents huddled together deciding whether to send their daughter far ...

Norway is a global leader in adopting electric vehicles (EVs). EVs comprise over 26% of passenger vehicles in the country and over 91% of new vehicle sales. Increased demand for charging stations and ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not simply a territorial land grab. There is a long and complex history between the two countries that exist in the context of a tense global political climate. After ...

February 22, 1922. On this ordinary day, a luminary was born. Syed Haider Raza burned his legacy into visual art history with the ever-burning flame of his work. This legend’s art is replete with ...

The campaign to restore what some of its proponents appear to consider a divinely imposed order within the boundaries of Greater Israel has, alas, produced a few embarrassing moments for the Biden ...

Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein famously doubted that gravity was a force. In 1915, he posited that gravity was not a force but rather an effect of the warping of space and time in the presence ...

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ruled Iran as the Shah from 1941 to 1979. While his regime had Western support, it was not democratic. The Pahlavi regime’s authoritarian behavior led to the alienation of many ...

On June 28, as 21 million Venezuelans awaited the election results, the opposition reported a sudden halt in the vote count. Hours later, electoral authorities declared President Nicolás Maduro the ...

I first learned about neurons from a lecture by physicist and now newly minted Nobel Prize winner John Hopfield at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1985. Hopfield was a senior scientist there, while I ...