Dinosaurs are often thought of as creatures thriving in warm climates and lush tropical jungles. But now, new research challenges this idea: Rather, dinosaurs endured freezing temperatures, which ultimately allowed them to reign in the Jurassic. The study’s lead author, paleontologist Paul Olsen, ventured out to the Junggar basin in China in 2016, a region…
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Business Insider Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. Current subscribers can read the report here. Until now, healthcare was the only remaining industry that had yet to feel the rapid impact of digitization endured by retail, banking, and media. But consumer adoption of…
The author, Leo Aquino. Jia Nocon In 2018, I quit my full-time job that paid $60,000 a year without an emergency fund. I wanted to be a full-time writer, but I had to take side gigs along the way until I got there. I lost money driving for Instacart, and I made more from copywriting…
A farmer harvests wheat in the fields in central China’s Henan Province. Zhang Haoran/Xinhua via Getty Images Global inflation is likely to swing to deflation in the next six months, Societe Generale said this week. The bank said such a development would follow what’s been a fast collapse in commodity prices. Agricultural prices have been…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo by Liu Jie/Xinhua via Getty A “perfect storm” has arrived for the digital advertising market, and it will lead to limited upside for Meta Platforms and Snap, according to Barclays.A decline in digital advertising and competition from TikTok and Apple will hurt other platforms.“We think this cocktail of events is…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP Photo, Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images After a spate of mass shootings in the US, right-wing figures have suggested a link to antidepressants. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson have claimed several mass shooters took SSRIs, suggesting they are to blame. Experts say the claims…
Europe’s dependence on Russian energy has been highlighted by the war in Ukraine. Getty Images Ukraine’s German Galushchenko urged Canada to keep hold of a key part of Russia’s gas pipeline. German economy minister Robert Habeck made a plea to Canada as Europe still needs Russian gas. He fears the Nord Stream pipeline may not…
AP/Jessica Hill Several signs suggest inflation has peaked, and will continue gradually cooling from the pace seen earlier in 2022. The trend, known as disinflation, means prices will still broadly rise, just at a slower pace. While some costs are set to drop, a prolonged decline would hint at an entirely new problem. The US…
Inside an abandoned Burger King in Concord Mall, Wilmington, Delaware Courtesy of Tom Dahlke A Burger King restaurant in a mall in Delaware with retro decor has gone viral on social media. The restaurant closed in 2009, but its decor appears to be largely unchanged from the 1990s. This includes patterned wallpaper, a pastel blue…
Artist’s concept of the Voyager 1 spacecraft. NASA NASA reported its Voyager 1 spacecraft was sending strange data back to Earth in May. The glitch is ongoing and might be due to the spacecraft’s age or location in interstellar space. Engineers are looking through decades-old manuals to debug it. In May, NASA scientists said the…