It argues that England's 1688 revolution let Parliament dismantle fragmented property rights and rigid inheritance rules, clearing the way for the investment that drove industrialization.

A playbook of concrete fixes to planning, procurement, permitting, and state capacity aimed at closing the gap between America's high transit spending and its poor cost-effectiveness.

Lawmakers reach a bicameral agreement on housing legislation even as housing starts decline and homeownership slips in parts of the country.

Research finds that startups built around AI employ fewer workers but skew toward engineers and flatter hierarchies while reaching valuations comparable to non-AI rivals.

A Nature World View argues that as AI automation displaces workers, governments should shift taxation from labour toward capital and shore up worker-support systems to curb rising inequality.

The genome behaves as a dynamic, context-dependent regulatory system rather than a linear blueprint, making it hard for AI to predict biology from sequence alone.

An associate editor at Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience resigned after the publisher's automated system overrode his hand-picked peer reviewers, which he reads as a drive to sideline human editors for publication volume.

A Nature editorial argues that mathematics' new Leiden Declaration, protecting human judgment, transparency and fairness in AI-assisted research, is a template other disciplines should adopt.

Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein argues that scientific institutions are inherently political and spiritual endeavors that should center marginalized voices and resist authoritarian interference.

AI agents are automating computational chemistry and steering experiments, promising to compress the decades-long path from discovering a new catalyst to deploying it industrially.

A look at autonomous robot-and-AI laboratories such as Berkeley's A-Lab, which run experiments roughly 100 times faster than humans — and the catch that throughput alone does not guarantee reliable science.

Three recent studies suggest the Shingrix vaccine cuts dementia risk by roughly 20 percent, possibly by blocking the varicella zoster virus.

Epidural anesthesia safely removes most childbirth pain while keeping mothers alert, yet access remains unevenly distributed between wealthy and developing nations.

Argues that the shared data infrastructure underpinning open science needs sustained funding, because its collapse would undermine verification, reproducibility, and scientific progress.

Reporting from inside American labs amid federal funding uncertainty (including a proposed 55% NSF cut), it finds researchers pressing ahead on protein design, dementia, and AI even as grant unpredictability looms.

As Boomers retire and birth rates fall, US labor-force growth slows toward zero in the 2030s-40s, which Taylor argues should push up wages for young workers entering the market.

New research points to women's education and shifts in economic sectors, rather than children's schooling outcomes, as the main drivers of Latin America's fertility decline.

Analyzes the proposed MATCH Act, which would lock semiconductor export controls into law and press allies to match them, and why China may route around the rules through domestic suppliers.

A teardown finding that SMIC's N+3 process hits a smaller metal pitch than Intel 18A but only TSMC N6-class density, achieved through aggressive DUV multi-patterning at a steep cost in complexity.

Argues that even after the US cleared advanced Nvidia sales to China, Beijing is blocking the purchases to force domestic alternatives, effectively ending US leverage over China's AI-chip market.

Using firm-level data, finds the 2018-19 US-China trade war raised Italian firms' exports by 2.5% on average, but with wide dispersion as roughly one in five firms saw exports fall.

An interview with the authors of a new book on trade conflicts, on who is to blame for global trade tensions and whether the US is confronting China's economic model the right way.

Shows that both trade restrictions and trade-policy uncertainty significantly depress cross-border investment, with uncertainty producing a stronger and longer-lasting drag than tariffs alone.