Existing home sales hit 14-month low
August closings slipped to their slowest pace in over a year, even as housing supply hit a decade-plus high
August closings slipped to their slowest pace in over a year, even as housing supply hit a decade-plus high
Educational BREAKING — New Scientist reports that mathematicians are now scrambling to understand the implications of OpenAI's claimed solution to one of the Millennium Prize Problems, a set of unsolved questions that have stood for decades as the most stubborn landmarks in the field. The announcement has sent specialists
Educational BREAKING — Rolling Stone Music reports that Brian Fallon has stepped away from the Gaslight Anthem's heartland punk sound and into full-throated eighties rock territory on his new solo album, Not Bad for New Jersey, drawing inspiration from what he calls the era's "songs
Educational BREAKING — Rolling Stone Music reports that Carrie Underwood will open the 2026 Sunday Night Football season with a reworked version of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Hate Myself for Loving You," a notable departure from her usual approach after fourteen consecutive years as the program&
Educational BREAKING — MIT Technology Review reports that a San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map outlining the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that would be needed to make informed decisions about solar geoengineering. Scientists have spent half a century exploring whether releasing reflective particles into the atmosphere could counteract
Educational BREAKING — MIT Technology Review reports that a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia on July 22, 2026 knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds, compounding a pattern of catastrophic failures in the world's largest data center cluster. Two years prior, a single
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Educational BREAKING — MIT Technology Review reports that the United States is setting records for how quickly its energy storage market is expanding, a development that promises to reinforce the electrical grid, improve reliability, and reduce emissions by capturing energy from intermittent wind and solar sources. The growth depends significantly on
Educational BREAKING — National Mortgage News reports that agency MBS issuance is trailing expectations for the third quarter, even as home equity and non-QM products pick up momentum. Analysts at BTIG expect mortgage origination volume across five major lenders—loanDepot, PennyMac Financial Services, Rithm, Rocket Cos., and UWM Holdings—to
Educational BREAKING — National Mortgage News reports that Treasury yields pushed higher after the debt buyback announcement, with the 10-year note climbing roughly 6 basis points to 4.85% by early afternoon in New York, after earlier touching levels not seen since 2023. The market's reaction suggests that
Educational BREAKING — Rolling Stone Music reports that Dolly Parton appears on a new Stanley Brothers tribute album, marking her first posthumous release. The project gathers an extensive lineup of country and roots artists including Willie Nelson, Sierra Ferrell, Jamey Johnson, and Dierks Bentley, among others, to honor the foundational bluegrass
The upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory should be able to spot the glint of water on habitable planets, and maybe more