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In America, Not Having a College Degree Can Take Years Off Your Life
By many measures, the U.S. economy is thriving: Unemployment stands close to the 50-year low set in April, the fraction…
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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Electrons
Their work “allows us to address fundamental questions” such as the time scale of the photoelectric effect for which Einstein…
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World
China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It.
China’s brightest minds, including tech professionals, are emigrating, but many are not heading to America. We spoke to them to…
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US
What to Know About Laphonza Butler, Newsom’s Appointee to the Senate
Ms. Butler, 44, was chosen on Sunday to fill the vacancy created by the death of Senator Dianne Feinstein.
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They Accidentally Bought the Wrong House. So They Made It the Right House.
After becoming the inadvertent owners of a crumbling building in rural Scotland, a couple spent five years reviving it. With…
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Why the “Mother of the Atomic Bomb” Never Won a Nobel Prize
There is a memorable scene in “Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster film about the building of the atomic bomb, in which Luis…
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World
Nobel Prize Awarded to Covid Vaccine Pioneers
The physiology or medicine prize for Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman recognized work that led to the development of vaccines…
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‘Celebrate Jaap!’ the Philharmonic Says as a Maestro Departs
The final season of Jaap van Zweden’s brief tenure as music director in New York began with a new suite…
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Magazine
Why Can’t We Stop Unauthorized Immigration? Because It Works.
‘We’re getting no support on this national crisis,’ Mayor Eric Adams said in September at a town-hall-style gathering on Manhattan’s…
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World
The Gilgo Beach Suspect May Have Hunted Them. Now They’re Key Witnesses.
Investigators are talking to women behind bars who worked as escorts and had encounters with the suspect, Rex Heuermann. They…