'Slam the Brakes': Regulator Flags Climate Risk in Markets

How COVID-19 is Changing the English Language

Share this on WhatsApp In April, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary did something unusual. For the previous 20 years, they had issued quarterly updates to announce new words and meanings selected for inclusion. These updates have typically been made available in March, June, September and December. In the late spring, however, and again […]

Animals Appreciate Recent Traffic Lull

Share this on WhatsApp Don’t worry about why the chicken crossed the road—the bigger question is whether it’ll make it at all. Every year, millions of animals get killed by vehicles in the U.S. But that road risk has dropped because of the COVID pandemic. “We’re aware of negative impacts on the economy, family relations. […]

Fatal Opioid Overdoses May Be More Common Than Thought

Share this on WhatsApp Opioids have been blamed for the deaths of at least 400,000 U.S. residents in the past two decades—but research now shows that number could be much higher. Researchers looked at data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on about 630,000 people who died of drug overdoses between 1999 and […]