For nearly a century, biologists have relied on a simple rule to predict how microbes grow when food is scarce, a rule that ...

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Bitcoin has erased all of this year's gains and investors are nervous. Fed tone will impact prices as much as (if not more than) the rate decision itself. Look to the long term -- cryptocurrencies ...

The first time I went under the knife, I remember the anesthesiologist asking me to count backward. “Ten, nine, eight…” and then it all went black. The next thing I knew, three hours had passed, yet ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the second time since September. Before that, it had gone nine months without a cut. The federal ...

You’ll often hear plastic pollution referred to as a problem. But the reality is that it’s multiple problems. Depending on the properties we need, we form plastics out of different polymers, each of ...

The FOMC voted to cut the federal funds rate by 25 basis points, or a quarter-point, at its October meeting, as expected. Mortgage rates and the Fed's benchmark rate don't always move together, but ...

After leaving the benchmark interest rate untouched for a nine-month stretch, the Federal Reserve in September made the first in what is anticipated to be a series of rate cuts. These cuts will have ...

The reduction is not as substantial as some hoped, and it had already been priced into mortgage rates by the time the announcement was made last week. The remaining market foe is inflation. “That’s ...

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