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Alphabet up 32% YTD, leading gains among "Magnificent 7" stocks Stock trades at 23x earnings vs 5-year average of 22 Sept 15 (Reuters) - Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab hit a market ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

When Carol Sullivan began penning her memoir, she couldn’t have known the creative endeavor would lead to participating in a reality TV show filmed in Peru. But that’s the journey she’s traveled from ...

Some of you may recall observing word puzzles on papers, while others may have seen them on mobile apps; more recently, they have also appeared in social media posts and blogs. However, over the years ...

Alice Walker. Charles Bukowski. Louise Erdrich. Juan Felipe Herrera. These are just some of the authors who received a Creative Writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts over the ...

Alphabet’s life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program Monday. CEO Stephen Gillett announced the “difficult decision” to wind down the program in a staff memo, ...

On Friday afternoon, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying that the program had been canceled. The annual ...

ROSWELL, Ga. — A Roswell couple came home from vacation to an unsettling surprise — a four-foot python hiding under their deck. “I saw it out of the corner of my eye, and I look over, and it’s right ...

A word puzzle features a grid filled with letters that are arranged in a random order. Hiding in the random arrangement of letters are certain words, which the reader needs to find by connecting the ...