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Millions of neurons branch throughout our bodies, keeping them in close communication with our brains. This peripheral network begins to take shape long before birth, as the cells of a growing embryo ...

MILLBRAE, CA – The Good Human Being Index Foundation debuted its first-ever Good Human Being Awards 2025 at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel here, celebrating leaders who combine excellence with ...

The composite manufacturing index rose ten points to 0, marking the first nonnegative reading in over a year. All three of its component indexes rose in March. Shipments increased to −2 from −13, new ...

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Life expectancy in Los Angeles County is 80.5 years, according to the report by Measure of America, a program of the Social Science Research Council. That’s down 1.6 years from the group’s previous ...

Among actively managed funds in 2025, there were shifts in which investment categories outperformed, or fell short of, their index-based counterparts, according to a new Morningstar report. Over 10 ...

The U.S. stock market has become so concentrated that even broad index funds are no longer well diversified, our columnist says. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on ...

New findings offer insight into why some embryos fail to develop past zygotic genome activation (ZGA), pointing to an unexpected root of human infertility. A critical point in early development is ...

Humans&, a startup with a philosophy that AI should empower people rather than replace them, has raised $480 million in seed funding at a $4.48 billion valuation, reports The New York Times. Investors ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (WBNG) -- The City of Ithaca has been awarded a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI). The MEI examines how inclusive a municipality is ...

The organization’s ‘Iceberg Index’ is designed to track the different types of AI agents now doing work once conducted by people. MIT has started taking a count of AI agents around the world to get a ...