Best-selling books such as Japan as Number One warned of Japanese dominance. The PBS series Frontline aired the documentary “Losing the War to Japan.” Silicon Valley looked spent after U.S. producers ...

A study of migratory hoverflies on a North Sea oil rig has revealed their vital role as long-distance pollen transporters. Researchers studied 121 marmalade hoverflies that landed on an oil rig in the ...

On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon. A cloud of insects would descend from the sky and land on the upper reaches of the platform. There were thousands of ...

If you and your best friend love laughing at the same sitcoms or tearing up during the same documentaries, science says that’s no coincidence. A new study has found that people whose brains react in ...

Direct-to-consumer drug ads have long blurred the line between patient empowerment and corporate persuasion, but the FDA is now moving to rein in misleading tactics on TV and social media. However, ...

A new study challenges the dream of water-rich “Hycean” planets like K2-18b, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their water deep into their interiors during formation. Instead of vast oceans, ...

My first reporting job out of college was for the TV industry trade publication Electronic Media, which sent me to Washington, D.C., to cover the Federal Communications Commission, Congress and public ...

A developing tropical system in the Atlantic Ocean is gaining attention as it shows a 90 percent chance of cyclone formation over the next seven days. The system, designated Invest AL92, is currently ...

EDWARD GARVEY, Engineer, Exxon Research & Engineering, 1978-83: In 1978, my wife and I was just engaged six months prior. So we were going to get married a year after I graduated from college. I was ...

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