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Dividend yield is the annual dividend payment expressed as a percentage of a share's price. It tells income investors how much cash a stock returns each year relative to what they paid for it.
A plain-English explainer on jury duty in the United States — who gets called, how selection works, what the job actually involves, and what happens if you ignore the summons.
India's national medical entrance exam, administered by the National Testing Agency, gates every MBBS and BDS seat in the country, and has drawn protests and political fallout over paper leaks, grace-mark scandals, and irregular results.
Yutaka Mizutani is a veteran Japanese actor and singer whose four-decade career defined the trendy drama boom of the 1980s and whose lead role in the long-running detective series Aibō has made him one of Japanese television's most enduring faces.
Why a takeoff or landing slot at Heathrow or JFK can cost tens of millions of dollars, how the 'use it or lose it' rule and grandfathering concentrate flights at a handful of crowded airports, and what slot trading means for fares.
Rare earth minerals power everything from electric cars to fighter jets, and China dominates their supply. A new American investment in an Australian mine is part of a high-stakes race to break that monopoly.
An explainer on birthright citizenship — what the 14th Amendment actually says, what the new executive attempt to limit it targets, and why courts are the almost inevitable next stop.
Brazil's economy is growing again under President Lula, but voters remain deeply unhappy, a paradox driven by inflation, inequality, and the gap between headline numbers and household reality.
An explainer on Bryan Johnson's Blueprint longevity protocol — the supplements, tests, diet, and devices behind the tech entrepreneur's much-debated attempt to slow biological aging, plus what science supports and what does not.
Colombia's 2026 election delivered an unexpected result that could reshape the country's institutions, its relationship with the United States, and the trajectory of Latin American democracy.
A plain-English explainer on the radical study suggesting life on Earth may have originated from non-living matter twice, what the evidence is, and why it matters for the search for life elsewhere.
How a few seconds of warning before strong shaking arrives can save lives, why P-waves beat S-waves, and how Japan, Mexico, and the US run the world's earthquake early warning networks.
An explainer on Ebola virus disease — how it spreads, why outbreaks have become faster over time, and what the heroic unpaid effort to slow the current one reveals.
An explainer on necrotising fasciitis — what 'flesh-eating' bacteria actually do, which microbes cause it, and why warming coastal waters are widening where they turn up.
An explainer on the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Open Models Initiative — what 'open AI models' means in practice, who releases them, and why a government lab is joining the race.
Repeated drone sightings over German military bases have exposed European security gaps and raised questions about who is behind the small aircraft and what can be done to stop them.
An explainer on the memory shortage gripping the chip industry — what DRAM and HBM are, why 2027 capacity is already committed, and how AI demand converts into empty memory shelves.
An explainer on U.S. government shutdowns — what a stopgap continuing resolution is, why funding lapses happen, and what actually shuts (and what keeps running) when the deadline passes.
How the National Weather Service decides between a heat advisory, an excessive heat watch, and an excessive heat warning, what the heat index actually measures, and why the thresholds shift by city.
An explainer on heat domes — the atmospheric pattern that traps scorching air over a region for days, how a warming climate makes them more likely, and what risks they pose beyond discomfort.