In its inaugural year, BoothHacks brought together 132 student builders, 37 new AI-powered products, and 10 judges for a high-Intensity, high-creativity 48-hour event that showcased the future of ...

The United States has become better known for inventing things than making them. That goes for everything from Apple’s iPhones to Levi’s jeans. Low-cost foreign labor is an obvious reason factories ...

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...

It is a bit difficult to say what criteria should be used to judge the success or failure of a research initiative on the scale of merging psychology and economics. Two reasonable criteria, at least ...

Buying a house used to be a rite of passage for middle-class Americans, but in recent decades, would-be homeowners have found themselves priced out of the market. The affordability crisis has become ...

Thirty years ago, job seekers paged through newspaper ads, made cold calls, or approached strangers at corporate networking events. Today, online applications and social networking platforms like ...

The revolution that’s been happening in financial services is right in your pocket: the phone that you pull out when the check arrives after a restaurant dinner with friends. Until relatively recently ...

The proliferation of generative artificial intelligence made a suite of potentially transformative tools accessible to workers around the world. Are they using it? Many are, according to research by ...

Accounting for the costs of climate change is an increasing focus globally. In 2024, the United States alone had 27 “confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each,” ...

Knowledge may be power, but information can also be overwhelming. Decision-makers often have access to so much potentially relevant data that they must choose what to ignore. Economists call this ...

US vice president Kamala Harris took on price gouging as a significant part of her presidential campaign’s economic policy platform, promising if elected to call for “the first-ever federal ban on ...

Drug price caps are meant to bring an array of benefits for patients and healthcare systems—improved access to essential and life-saving medicines, better public health outcomes, and reduced financial ...