Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming.

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For Americans of a certain age, there may be no bigger question than this. At what age should I take Social Security? At age 62? Sixty-five? Seventy? The question matters, because your monthly Social ...

At today's costs, he told Decoder, it takes roughly $80 billion to build and fully equip a 1-gigawatt AI data center. And with nearly 100 gigawatts of hyperscale capacity already announced across the ...

As a federal shutdown hits, Nationwide Insurance economists said the economy should prepare for a hit, but it is not likely to be a long one. "We estimate a shutdown could reduce (gross domestic ...

A scholar from Kenyon College, Professor of Mathematics Carol Schumacher, is coming to Bates to give two back-to-back talks on Sept. 29 as part of the Annual Richard W. Sampson Lecture Series. Both ...

The cost of homelessness — both for those who experience it directly and for those living alongside rising homelessness — has become increasingly difficult to ignore. Political leaders propose various ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve's governing board has raised alarms among economists and legal experts who see it as the biggest threat to the ...

President Donald Trump reiterated his claim, on 17 August 2025, that tariff revenues would be sufficient to reduce the United States’ towering debt burden. Speaking to the media earlier this month, he ...

Trust in experts is down. In all kinds of institutions and professions - in government, in media, in medical science... and lately, economists are feeling the burn acutely. In fact, President Trump ...

A new series for the Health and Science section aims to make complex topics easy to dissect, and maybe even help people ‘fall in love’ with math. Credit...Crystal Zapata Supported by By Josh Ocampo ...

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