January 22, 2013

Researchers are studying ancient rock formations in search of clues from records of past climate change to help predict sea level rises from global warming.

Many influential people will gather this week at the World Economic Forum to make predictions, and some of them will be right, and some wrong.

Federal regulators are ordering employers to scale back policies that limit what workers can say online.

The Bank of Japan set an ambitious 2 percent inflation target and pledged to ease monetary policy but there are doubts about just how much of an effect the moves will have.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is likely to serve a third term, but voters gave a surprising second place to a centrist party founded by a celebrity who emphasized kitchen-table issues.

The Bolshoi Ballet has made Galina Stepanenko, a former principal dancer, its acting artistic director. She takes over for Sergei Filin, who after suffering an acid attack, said that he regretted not accepting protection.

Documents from a California court case show that a Johnson & Johnson analysis estimated that a subsidiary’s hip implant would fail within five years in nearly 40 percent of patients.

The Scottish novelist Ali Smith’s slim new book, “Artful,” is equal parts ghost story and academic treatise: a set of lectures by a dead writer placed, like the filling of a dumpling, inside a love story.

Kirsten, an American Girl doll with a $110 price tag, is one of the most well-loved and sought-after items at a library branch in the East Village.

While Google’s most lucrative business, search on desktop computers, is slowing, the search giant has not yet figured out how to make equivalent profits on mobile devices.

Some of the most amusing and captivating writing in the city is being produced in the service of selling (or not selling) cheese.

Robert Wilson is directing a new chamber opera based on the life of the outsider artist Clementine Hunter, a black woman born in the 19th century.