The S&P 500 just ended a historically long stretch of trading above its 50-day moving average. The end of these long streaks has twice been a precursor to a bear market. However, investors should not ...

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Competition-winning apartment building plans should be approved twice as quickly by NSW councils, and will be three to six storeys high Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our ...

Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only creatures who decorate their abodes. Spiders bedeck their webs with “stabilimenta”—various woven ...

After 14 months, 15,000 legal cases, and countless late nights, security analyst Michael Robinson distilled insider threats down to 1,000 instances of misconduct — real-world cases where trusted ...

Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry landscapes that allows them to make the most of water resources. When you ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

At 95 years young this month, Keystone Villa at Fleetwood resident Betty Bleiler is a true inspiration, proving that age is no barrier to making a difference. A lifelong volunteer, Bleiler remains ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope observed dark beads and lopsided star patterns drifting over Saturn’s northern regions. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Saturn already tops the ...

The U.S. stock market is likely to decline between the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur — which this year begins at sundown on Monday, Sept. 22 and ends on the evening of Wednesday, Oct.