A look at corn and climate change in northern Canada demonstrates the different markets that develop when temperatures rises.
In an increasingly cashless Sweden, an Ikea cash-free store has created a positive response from management and many customers but not from everyone.
To become more accessible and accurate, a new kilogram has been developed that that is based on ideas rather than an object.
Like the CPI measures purchasing power through the dollar's inflation rate, we can observe waistline changes through clothing size inflation.
The six facts that summarize world debt identify the big borrowers, the risky borrowers, and the criteria for deciding how much to worry.
With the arrival of mandatory calorie labels at large establishments and soon at smaller ones, we can ask if their impact is predictable.
When Seattle tried using Democracy Vouchers to support campaign finance, the results were not entirely what they had expected.
Just combine Google Street View big data on 22 million cars with researchers at Stanford University and you learn lots about all of us.
Although the U.S. budget deficit just hit a five-year high, an economist could explain why politicians and voters are not worried.












