The bank discount rate is a calculation of the interest investors earn on short-term instruments such as Treasury bills.

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Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost ...

The idea that running the federal government like a business would improve how it functions has been around for many decades. Elaine Kamarck, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former ...

The artificial intelligence applications most people have grown familiar with in recent years usually take the form of assistants: Chatbots answer questions and respond to prompts, but a human ...

Awareness of our gut microbiome, and how it functions, has never been higher on the health agenda, with the advice – and probiotic products – supporting it advancing quicker than butter sinking into a ...

Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has a unique “connectivity fingerprint” tied to its role in cognition, from ...

The Harmonic Drive is a key part of countless robotic applications. Incredibly simple yet quite odd to watch, this gear system is extremely precise with an impressive torque-to-weight ratio, even if ...

As CIOs enter 2026 anticipating change and opportunity, it is worth looking back at how 2025 reshaped IT operations in ways few anticipated.

A look at what the mempool is, how it functions, and why a healthy and open public mempool is important for Bitcoin. Everyone who has used bitcoin has made use of the mempool, or a mempool. So what is ...

Kelli Garrison is passionate about what she calls the "power of translation" – the ability to understand informational needs, verify and validate information, and communicate effectively across ...

How might layoffs at the Department of Education affect its core functions? NPR speaks with education scholar Beth Akers, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The U.S. Department of ...