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Millions of retailers have filed an antitrust suit against big bank credit card companies. The goal? Cutting interchange fees and ending a crushing monopoly

Ripples in the fabric of spacetime regularly zip across the universe from titanic cosmic events, such as the mergers of supermassive black holes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun.

A coordinated global campaign is monitoring a wayward Russian Mars probe that's slated to crash to Earth in the next few days, the European Space Agency has announced. [More]

Is the economic turmoil overseas a crisis--or an opportunity? Here's a look at a few savvy American companies reaping the benefits of European market instability

By Jeff Coelho LONDON (Reuters) - Several big airlines are taking advantage of European carbon law by snapping up emission allowances at bargain prices, tuning out an outcry against the scheme by many non-EU airlines and shoring up demand in a market that saw prices cut in half last year. [More]

In a tongue-in-cheek "review" of the year just started, your intrepid reporter follows 2011's economic trends to their absurd conclusion. In looking back at the economy of 2012, we can safely say no one expected it to turn out the way it did

In a tongue-in-cheek "review" of the year just started, your intrepid reporter follows 2011's economic trends to their absurd conclusion. In looking back at the economy of 2012, we can safely say no one expected it to turn out the way it did. This year saw the development of many revolutionary new economic tools

In a tongue-in-cheek "review" of the year just started, your intrepid reporter follows 2011's economic trends to their absurd conclusion.

In a tongue-in-cheek "review" of the year just started, your intrepid reporter follows 2011's economic trends to their absurd conclusion. In looking back at the economy of 2012, we can safely say no one expected it to turn out the way it did. This year saw the development of many revolutionary new economic tools

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has generated a lot of news of late, e.g. the announcement that a team had found what it believes to be a particle that traveled faster than he speed of light, an actual new particle, and of course the seemingly never-ending storyline associated with the hopeful discovery of the elusive Higgs Boson, now a physicist not associated with the project, has built a scale model replica of the ATLAS experiment; a particle detector that will likely serve as ground zero should the so-called “god particle” ever be observed.

The best businesspeople don't know everything. They're the ones who are brave and truthful enough to admit mistakes--and learn the most from them along the way

Steven Spielberg’s animated feature The Adventures of Tintin opened this week, closing out another year full of big-budget movies based on comic books and graphic novels. Tintin joins properties like Captain America, X-Men, Green Lantern, Cowboys and Aliens, and Thor in the seemingly endless cavalcade of four-color characters to make it to the big screen. And 2011 was a relatively light year

DURBAN, South Africa I rented a cellphone during my sojourn here to cover the recent climate change negotiations . A local number enabled me to keep in touch with home and office but also, perhaps more importantly, to make appointments on the fly with ever harried international negotiators

The final vote is in! The committee has worked its way through an amazingly large group of entrees and come up with the Top (Bottom?) 10.

The hunt for elusive neutrinos will soon get its largest and most powerful tool yet: the enormous KM3NeT telescope, currently under development by a consortium of 40 institutions from ten European countries. Once completed KM3NeT will be the second-largest structure ever made by humans, after the Great Wall of China, and taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai… but submerged beneath 3,200 feet of ocean!