Fast Facts For Curious Minds

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

  • SWOT Analysis of Shein
    By Claire Garcia
    Chinese billionaire Chris Xu founded Shein in 2008. It was originally named ZZKKO and was initially a drop shipping business that connected customers with products obtained from the wholesale clothing market in Guangzhou. The company started its transition to become a fashion retailer in 2014 after ...
  • Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition
    By Immanuel Martinez
    Monopolistic competition is one of the four major types of market structures. It sits alongside perfect competition, oligopoly, and monopoly. It is characterized by the presence of numerous firms operating within a particular market or industry offering competing products that are somewhat similar ...
  • Why Did 23andMe File for Bankruptcy? What Does This Mean for Its Customers?
    By Suzanne Garcia
    The biotechnology company 23andMe was founded in 2006 with the goal of increasing access to direct-to-consumer genetic testing for ancestry tracking and genetic-based health assessment. It had its fair share of success and criticism. Nevertheless, in March 2025, it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...
  • How the Brain Reacts to Prices: Neural Marker for Price Perception Discovered
    By Claire Garcia
    Pricing influences consumer behavior. A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Russia has shown that the brain reacts instantly when the price of a product does not meet expectations. This engages brain areas involved in decision-making and learning from past experiences. The study, which was ...
  • Law Firm Paul Weiss Yielding To Trump: Why This Matters
    By Claire Garcia
    Law firm Paul Weiss agreed to provide USD 40 million in pro bono legal services for right-wing causes and cases over the next four years. This decision was prompted by a 14 March 2025 executive order by Donald Trump that suspended its security clearances and threatened existing federal contracts. ...
  • Tesla On The Loose: Some Cybertruck Parts Are Held By Glue
    By Marion Davies
    Tesla is having a bad year. Its earnings declined last year. The stock price has fallen by more than 30 percent in the last six months due to protesters across the world burning its dealerships and boycotting its products. The controversial Cybertruck, less than a year since it became available in ...
  • DoorDash-Klarna Partnership and Micro-Loan Worries
    By Claire Garcia
    Hungry and cashless? Empty fridge woes? DoorDash has your back. The online food ordering and delivery service provider has partnered with the AI-powered payment platform Klarna to allow its cash-strapped customers to take out micro-loans to pay for food or grocery delivery. You Can Now Pay for ...
  • Porter’s Five Forces Analysis of Shein
    By Claire Garcia
    Shein has become one of the largest fashion brands in the world and one of the market leaders in the fast-fashion industry alongside giants such as Zara and H&M. It has built its business around its core strengths that include the fast-fashion business model, penetration pricing, small-batch ...

HEALTH AND MEDICINE

  • Why Are Stillbirths Rising In Some European Countries?
    By Suzanne Garcia
    Most of Europe has seen stillbirth rates decline or stabilize in the last decade. However, this is not the case for countries like Belgium, Cyprus, and Germany where stillbirths rose between 2010 and 2021. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research expected the usual ...
  • Almost Half of Depression Diagnosis are Treatment-Resistant
    By Melissa Lewis
    A considerable number of individuals diagnosed with major depressive disorder do not respond adequately to standard treatment. This is based on a mixed-method research by academics from the University of Birmingham and Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. These patients ...
  • Deadly Bacteria Are Evolving—And Learning to Kill Their Own Kind
    By Franz Williams
    Hospitals are facing a growing challenge from drug-resistant bacteria. These bacteria have evolved new strategies to survive in medical environments. One type, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium or VREfm, has become more dominant in recent years. Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh ...
  • Health Impacts of Transportation
    By Franz Williams
    Traditional transport endangers individual and overall public health. Current modes and systems of transportation also have health-related economic costs that strain both the public health system and the overall economy. Sustainable transport aims to address these issues. This article identifies ...
  • Is The Y Chromosome Really Disappearing? What Does This Mean?
    By Franz Williams
    One of the most intriguing news that has permeated popular science discourse is the supposed ongoing but gradual disappearance of the Y chromosome in humans and other mammals. This is one of the two sex chromosomes. Its presence in combination with an X chromosome determines a male sex. This means ...
  • Dr. Beata Halassy: How She Used Viruses to Cure Her Breast Cancer
    By Franz Williams
    The potential of oncolytic virotherapy, long discussed in scientific circles, has been dramatically illustrated by one of the most prominent cases of self-treatment. A scientist, facing a third cancer recurrence, achieved remission through a self-administered viral therapy. This raised profound ...
  • Injectable Hydrogel to Increase Bone Density and Strengthen Bones
    By Franz Williams
    Researchers at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne and the startup biotechnology company Flowbone have developed an injectable hydrogel that may revolutionize osteoporosis treatment by rapidly strengthening fragile bones. This hydrogel—composed of hyaluronic acid and hydroxyapatite ...
  • Opioid Receptors Trigger Dessert Stomach—Max Planck Scientists
    By Franz Williams
    You swear you could not eat another bite. However, when the dessert arrives, your craving kicks in and you suddenly have an appetite for something sweet. This phenomenon, popularly called the “dessert stomach,” is more than a habit or indulgence. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY