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Business
World in a Day cover, Thursday, September 3, 2026

World in a Day: Thursday, September 3, 2026

WORLD IN A DAY · THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2026 Six stories worth five minutes: Nvidia makes its biggest acquisition ever, a UN report concedes the world’s flagship climate target will likely be missed, and a Bronze Age Egyptian official’s tomb resurfaces after four thousand years underground. Technology Nvidia to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion […]

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Science
A NOAA diver laying a transect line to survey a coral reef, part of long-term reef monitoring

Coral, Reconsidered

Ten years of reef surveys across the Pacific and the Atlantic are converging on an uncomfortable, and oddly hopeful, conclusion: coral reefs are not dying in unison. Some are eroding fast. Others, sitting in water that looks nearly identical from a boat, are holding their ground — and the difference has as much to do

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A decade of reef surveys is complicating the simple story about coral decline.

Business
Traders working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during quarterly earnings season

Earnings, Explained

Four times a year, thousands of public companies open their books, and for a few hours the numbers seem to speak for themselves. They rarely do. The same report that sends one company’s stock up 10 percent can send an outwardly similar company’s stock down just as far — not because the arithmetic is different,

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A quick guide to what quarterly earnings reports actually tell you — and what they don't.