Abstract: Ranking college football teams fairly remains a challenging task due to incomplete tournament data and the inherent biases in traditional ranking methods, such as polls and committee ...

2026 will be the year when US dollar dilution—the quiet erosion of its global dominance as countries trade and pay in alternatives—starts to build momentum. The more Washington uses the dollar as a ...

What does it take to become the best at something? The answer may not lie in early childhood practice or in lifelong, laser-focused dedication. Instead the path to becoming exceptional at a skill ...

The Department of War is accelerating its push into unmanned systems, moving beyond experimentation toward large-scale production, streamlined acquisition and integrated doctrine. From mass-producing ...

BEIJING—China’s trade surplus in goods this year topped $1 trillion for the first time, a milestone that underscores the dominance that the country has attained in everything from high-end electric ...

A project heralded by Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and accelerated by President Donald Trump stands to deal a huge blow to China’s dominance in the nanotechnology, energy and automotive sectors as the ...

For developing countries, a weaker greenback is usually good news. Poor-country governments borrow more in dollars than rich ones, so their debt bills get slashed. In the first six months of 2025, the ...

Big tech is spending big on artificial intelligence. In advertising, the fast-evolving technology is already juicing revenue. For more than a decade, small businesses and big brands have flocked to ...

TO CATCH A glimpse of China’s industrial heft, visit Changxing Island in the country’s north-east. There, jutting into the Bohai Sea, is one piece of the machine: a specialised petrochemical plant ...

China has spent two decades building a globe-spanning port network that offers it commercial reach — and potential strategic leverage. Chinese companies now own or operate terminals at more than 90 ...

From the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River to the Great Plains and beyond, for nearly 250 years, America has been endlessly sustained and enriched by our abundance of precious natural ...

The U.S. dollar has weakened over much of the year in a sign of possible threats to its global standing. Meanwhile, gold is having its day in the sun, rising above $4,000 an ounce for the first time ...