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Finance
The bond market sell-off is helping the dollar
But the strength of the greenback is not as reliable as in the past
Tech
The Nobel for medicine goes to lighting up the brain
Inventors of optogenetics get the gong
Finance
The world is facing an almighty LNG crunch
In time it could bring about an equally disruptive glut
Finance
Flow and disorder
The Iran war will change LNG markets for ever
Tech
Should you be using a tongue scraper?
There is another tool that will do the job just as well
Finance
Governments want to hold America’s shares more than its debts
When countries switch towards riskier assets, the global economy feels the consequences
Finance
Research on grasping bureaucrats startles Singapore
It is more revealing about its academic culture than its civil service
Finance
Financial astrology is a serious business in India
That is bad news for investors’ returns
Tech
Simulating death can reduce people’s fear of dying
And help doctors train for the worst
Tech
It may soon be possible to create “mirror life”
Such research poses risks for humanity and the planet
Finance
Investing for babies involves knotty trade-offs
Should new parents favour financial capital, human capital or something else?
Finance
The AI boom meets a new kind of crypto scam
Payment cards linked to cryptocurrency accounts may enable Chinese purchases of American AI models
Finance
How the AI boom could worsen the rich world’s fiscal crunch
Even with higher growth, taxes may be harder to find
Tech
Alternatives to GPS are around the corner
Earth’s quantum field and signals from other satellites may prove more reliable
Tech
Are weighted blankets really beneficial?
Measurable gains are modest, but many users report feeling better
Finance
How the Fed should measure inflation
Pinning down the underlying rate may be harder than Kevin Warsh thinks
Finance
Israel’s war economy is thriving
But conflict is worsening its industrial divide
Finance
The battle between India’s stock exchanges is heating up again
Number two is trying harder
Finance
Turkey’s investment-fund fiasco
The country could lose its status as an emerging market
Tech
Should you fear pesticide-resistant super-bed bugs?
Thankfully not. But individual populations are getting harder to eliminate
Tech
Should you fear pesticide-resistant super-bedbugs?
Thankfully not. But individual populations are getting harder to eliminate
Tech
Space-going mirrors could offer daylight on demand
Applications stretch from disaster relief to street lighting
Tech
Many surgical interventions are little better than placebo
A succession of clinical trials is upending the field
Finance
You can’t trade your way through the AI apocalypse
It’s hard to price the threats posed by a misaligned superintelligence
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