Research
Millennial Small Business Owners Better at Addressing Risks: Nationwide
Millennial business owners may be far better at addressing professional risks than their older counterparts, a new Nationwide study has found. Their attentiveness to various kinds of ...
Delaware Researchers Have New Use for Geo-Mapping: ID’ing Opiate ‘Hot Spots’
As the U.S. experiences sharp increases in drug overdoses, researchers in Delaware are using geo-mapping to look at the state, neighborhood by neighborhood, to identify "hot spots" where the use of ...
Many Railroads Make Little Progress Adopting Safety Technology
Many commuter and freight railroads have made little progress installing safety technology designed to prevent deadly collisions and derailments despite a mandate from Congress, according to a ...
Move-in Ready Home Modules Offer Faster Method of Post-Disaster Rebuilding: Texas A&M
Texas legislators are investigating the benefits of RAPIDO, a pilot program developed with recommendations from Texas A&M University's Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC) that ...
Reinsurers Successfully Protect Themselves With Strong Enterprise Risk Management: S&P
The reinsurance sector's focus on strong enterprise risk management (ERM) frameworks is helping them weather the many headwinds hitting both the asset and liability sides of their balance sheets, ...
Are Wearable Clouds the Next Innovation in Data Storage?
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are exploring the concept of a wearable personal cloud — a fully functioning, yet compact and lightweight cloud computing system embedded into ...
How a Solar Storm Almost Sparked a Nuclear War
A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force's budding efforts to monitor the ...
Natural Catastrophes Created $31B in Global Insured Losses Through H1: Swiss Re’s Sigma
Global insured losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters during the first half of 2016 reached US$31 billion, or 44 percent of total economic losses of US$71 billion, according to a ...