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Economics & Business Sep 10, 2026

Fast-growing money market funds linked to 'exuberant' equity markets and systemic risk

Money market funds (MMFs) that grow rapidly when equity markets are soaring pose a systemic risk to global financial systems, new academic research reveals.

Economics & Business Sep 9, 2026

Q&A: What can rent prices reveal about inflation and the economy?

Tracking rent prices may help businesses and policymakers understand where inflation is headed months in advance of government inflation reports, according to researchers at Penn State's Smeal College of Business who developed ...

Economics & Business Aug 31, 2026

The paper that predicted the office apocalypse

When an early draft of "Work from Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse," co-authored by Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, the Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate at Columbia Business School, began circulating ...

Environment Aug 27, 2026

Climate change leaves its mark on America's largest reservoir

From high in the hills around Las Vegas, tourist Choune Osterero gazes down at the line of chalky mineral deposits left on the rocks around Lake Mead as the level of America's largest reservoir has dropped over the last quarter-century ...

Environment Aug 20, 2026

Homebuyers are choosing homes with much higher carbon footprints than they realize

When people shop for a home, they tend to focus on the information listings put front and center: price, floor area, number of bedrooms and location. Rarely do listings show how a home can shape a household's carbon footprint ...

Plants & Animals Aug 19, 2026

Sea cucumber breeding clues could help rebuild populations depleted by overfishing

The reproductive life of sea cucumbers has come under the microscope as University of the Sunshine Coast researchers battle overfishing of the marine creatures. Sea cucumbers—which can spawn by wobbling their heads and ejecting ...

Environment Aug 11, 2026

Too hot to live? French buyers rethink housing choices after heat waves

After multiple severe heat waves in a single summer, French residents are increasingly factoring high temperatures into their home hunts, realtors say, bumping up features such as shutters, air conditioning and indirect sunlight ...

Ecology Aug 9, 2026

Australia has pledged to restore nature. But could we ever bring back lost ecosystems?

Nature is not doing well in Australia. Many unique mammals, birds and insects are struggling. Entire ecosystems are collapsing.

Social Sciences Aug 5, 2026

Historic discovery finds 19th-century estate agent used peepshow technology to create proto version of Rightmove

A 19th-century real estate agent created the world's first version of Rightmove more than 160 years before the birth of online property previews.

Environment Aug 3, 2026

Climate‑related 'silent adaptation' coping strategies are going beyond official directives

Scientific reports, political directives and national plans follow one after another, urging regions to adapt to new climate realities. Yet one question remains: How do adaptation initiatives among local communities and businesses ...

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