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Children ages 8 to 12 in the US, the UK, and China were recently polled in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing.

The birthrate is falling for American women in their 20s, especially in places where the local economy is booming.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched.

While Fast Company found two-thirds of 42 tech firms it surveyed changed at least one policy in the wake of the racial justice protests, prominent Black tech workers and scholars believe that it’s too soon to know if the focus on equity will last.

Sources say the company prioritizes anti-discrimination in its talking points, but not in its spending.

For the first time, Just Walk Out shopping is available in a full-size grocery store at the new Amazon Fresh.

Three months ago, from Jann Swanson at MortgageNewsDaily:  Fannie Warns Lenders on Investment Properties and 2nd Homes . This action will r...

Past research has found that experienced well-being does not increase above incomes of $75,000/y. This finding has been the focus of substantial attention from researchers and the general public, yet is based on a dataset with a measure of experienced well-being that may or may not be indicative of actual emotional experience (retrospective, dichotomous reports). Here, over one million real-time reports of experienced well-being from a large US sample show evidence that experienced well-being rises linearly with log income, with an equally steep slope above $80,000 as below it. This suggests that higher incomes may still have potential to improve people’s day-to-day well-being, rather than having already reached a plateau for many people in wealthy countries. Data aggregated by income level have been deposited in OSF () ([23][1]). Granular data are stored in a repository and are available to qualified researchers who wish to verify or extend the claims of this paper; contact the author for access information. March 25, 2021: The Data Availability section has been updated. [1]: #ref-23

Have you ever thought to yourself, “If only I could increase my salary by 10%, I’d feel better”? How about, “I wish I had a trust fund. How happy I would be!” I don’t blame you -- I’ve had the same thoughts many times. Money is a big part of our lives, our i

In old age, I had to come to terms with the loneliness I’d felt all my life

High-income workers at highly profitable companies will benefit greatly. Downtown landlords won’t.

This study reveals that when scientists omit from the papers’ title that research findings were obtained using mice, as opposed to humans, the media tend to replicate the trend by omitting the use of mice from the news stories headlines that report on these papers, thereby perpetuating the misleading omission.

A fire aboard a container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka has led to one of the largest ecological disasters in the country’s history.

Exclusive research and expert insights into a year of work like no other reveal urgent lessons for leaders as hybrid work unfolds.

Speedup of Pine Island Glacier over the past several decades has made it Antarctica’s largest contributor to sea-level rise. The past speedup is largely due to grounding-line retreat in response to ocean-induced thinning that reduced ice-shelf buttressing. While speeds remained fairly steady from 2009 to late 2017, our Copernicus Sentinel 1A/B–derived velocity data show a >12% speedup over the past 3 years, coincident with a 19-km retreat of the ice shelf. We use an ice-flow model to simulate this loss, finding that accelerated calving can explain the recent speedup, independent of the grounding-line, melt-driven processes responsible for past speedups. If the ice shelf’s rapid retreat continues, it could further destabilize the glacier far sooner than would be expected due to surface- or ocean-melting processes.

Hannah Brenkert-Smith has studied the role of residents' choices in wildfire risk for two decades, with one goal being to improve mitigation programs. Her most recent work near Bailey, Colorado, concludes residents often overestimate their preparation and underestimate their risk.

(Bloomberg) -- Lumber futures posted their biggest-ever weekly loss, extending a tumble from all-time highs reached last month as sawmills ramp up output and buyers hold off on purchases.Prices in Chicago fell 18% this week, the biggest decline for most-active futures in records going back to 1986. Lumber has has now dropped almost 40% from the record high reached on May 10.Sawmills appear to be catching up with the rampant homebuilding demand in North America that fueled a months-long rally, br

Cars are being kept in service longer as prices rise and quality improves, a trend accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic.

Americans are bracing for a wave of higher inflation over the next year.

Remote work is chipping away at a trend of Americans staying put — but only for the well-off.