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Many value-sensitive investors -- particularly anybody above the age of 50 -- have been disconcerted in recent years by the fact that PE ratios have been much higher than the historical norms for this ...

As Cat Stevens, he helped define the singer-songwriter. After converting to Islam, he became a lightning rod. His new memoir explores it all. Yusuf Islam, 77, performed one of rock’s great ...

I recently explained how the decision is patently narrow, applying only to age-verification mandates targeting access to sexual content that, in Justice Clarence Thomas’s words for the majority, “the ...

MILAN (AP) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned Israeli attacks on Gaza as disproportionate on Wednesday, saying there have been “too many innocent victims” during the nearly two-year-old ...

In physics, we have a bunch of constants that are used in models to explain how the world works. These are fixed numbers that we plug into equations along with our variables. For example, the ...

Traditional change management advice emphasizes gradual tactics like pursuing “small wins,” building coalitions, and pitching pilots that require minimal investment. In stable times, these approaches ...

When two nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital posted on social media recently that they’re being run ragged and patient care is being strained by the Pittsburgh health system giant’s staffing ...

In remarks before judges and lawyers in California, the justice said she believed the court had a responsibility to share its reasoning. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Monterey, Calif. Justice ...

Planck's constant reveals the quantum world's fundamental energy levels. It shows how light and matter exist in discrete units (quanta). This constant defines limits to our knowledge of particle ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...