Visa and Mastercard are examples of a duopoly that dominates the payments industry in Europe and the United States. One disadvantage of duopolies is that consumers have little choice in products.

For example, instead of competing to attract customers by lowering prices or offering better contracts, they may all use similar contracts or keep prices around the same level. This anti ...

Scientists have discovered how chemokines and G protein-coupled receptors selectively bind each other to control how cells move.

Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin have created a data science framework to better understand how cells travel through the body. The ...

Where members of the Catholic Worker serve free meals on Skid Row. When I think of those examples and so many more, I think of Pope Francis. I don’t think of Gomez — and that’s a shame.

On Tuesday night, at 7:30 pm EST, the Oklahoma City Thunder will tip off against the Memphis Grizzlies for Game 2 of their first-round series on TNT, a widely available cable network. Millions ...

Entities magically endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth. Consider, for example, Galatea, a statue of a woman sculpted by Pygmalion as art, then brought to life by Aphrodite.

Oman said it mediated a ceasefire deal between Yemen's Houthis and the U.S., marking a major shift in the Iran-aligned group's policy since the start of Israel's war in Gaza in October 2023 ...

This quietly brilliant series won't make headlines, but it's a soothing balm for the shrill times we're living in This year’s pilgrims: Stef Reid, Jay McGuiness, Harry Clark, Helen Lederer, Jeff ...