“How do they do that?” is a reasonable response to certain things we see in nature. Pythons and snakes like them can eat prey as big as they are, sometimes even bigger, and digest their massive single ...

Public markets are evolving, reshaping how and when companies enter the public sphere — and raising new expectations for the benchmarks that track them. As company size, ownership structures, and ...

U.S. equities are showing signs of underlying weakness despite the broader market’s seemingly stable performance, as a divergence in index structure points to a more fragile backdrop. The equal-weight ...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) has a concentration problem that keeps getting worse. The top 10 holdings in a cap-weighted S&P 500 fund now represent a historically outsized share of the ...

Burmese pythons have pretty irregular eating habits. One of these giant reptiles can swallow an entire antelope whole and then go up to a year and a half without additional meals. Now, scientists have ...

Researchers report a python metabolite that suppresses appetite in mice, highlighting a potential alternative to current weight-loss drugs. The study, set against widespread use of GLP-1 drugs such as ...

The S&P 500 you own through a standard index fund is not as diversified as it looks. The cap-weighted version of the index hands roughly a third of your money to a handful of mega-cap technology names ...

Indiana Jones’ greatest fear may be obesity’s biggest enemy. Scientists at three universities have turned to nature to find a property that rivals the benefits of GLP-1 drugs without the laundry list ...

CU Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain metabolically healthy. The ...