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‘Living paycheck-to-paycheck has become the norm’: Inflation takes its toll on American finances as emergency funds run dry

Oct 29, 2022

Inflation is taking its toll on people’s emergency funds. Overall, 65% percent of employed consumers were living paycheck-to-paycheck in September 2022 — up from 60% a year ago. Adjusted for...

How can we improve heart failure diagnosis?

Oct 29, 2022

How can we improve heart failure diagnosis? No biomarker for the second type of heart failureUsing biomarkers to detect heart failure is nothing new. Further research is needed on the...

Math enthusiasts take aim at STEM glass ceiling

Oct 29, 2022

It’s not just a math contest. The next four winners were Isabella Zhu, a 12th grader from Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, whose score of 15 earned her $20,000;...

A global beacon on climate change

Oct 29, 2022

Long said climate change is an important issue in America’s schools, both as a subject for instruction and a factor affecting learning: A 100-degree heat wave last spring struck while...

Trump lawyers spotted in DC for 'secret' hearing

Oct 29, 2022

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump appeared for a "secret" hearing in a Washington, D.C., federal courthouse on Thursday, which appears to be for talks surrounding the high-profile investigation into...

Peter Wall and UBC launch new program awarding up to $4 million per year to help create sustainable solutions in B.C.

Oct 28, 2022

Peter Wall and UBC launch new program awarding up to $4 million per year to help create sustainable solutions in B.C. Today, Peter Wall and UBC announced the launch of...

How social connection keeps your brain young: study

Oct 28, 2022

Social interaction doesn’t just make us happy – it helps to slow down brain ageing, a study by the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW Sydney finds. The...

One million homes target makes headlines, but can't mask modest ambition of budget

Oct 28, 2022

Relatively modest but positive steps were made towards tackling Australia’s worsening shortage of affordable social housing, as well as the broader challenge of housing affordability. As part of that deal,...

Winning story explores how our past is embedded in rocks

Oct 28, 2022

The essay will be published alongside the 30 longlisted entries to the prize in The Best Australian Science Writing 2022, NewSouth’s annual collection featuring the finest Australian science writing of...

Election Day is Nov. 8, but legal challenges already begin

Oct 28, 2022

The suits, largely by Republicans, target rules over mail-in voting, early voting, voter access, voting machines, voting registration, the counting of mismarked absentee ballots and access for partisan poll watchers....