To adapt the Bard: “O, wonder! … O brave new world.” Or seven of them, as it happens. Researchers revealed on Wednesday that they’ve uncovered these intriguing planets swirling outside the solar system, all of them rocky and Earth-sized. Three seem temperate enough to support life. And all are orbiting a small, dim star just 40 light-years away. The …

  Anti-Brexit campaigner and many European leaders had warned Britain of huge economic loss after it quits EU. But the other side of the coin is that even European Union will lose on multiple fronts due to Brexit. EU would not just be losing a vital component, but also one of its richest countries, with its biggest defense budget and …

  Losing 4.3 billion barrels of reserves could be just what Exxon Mobil Corp. needed. There’s no denying that having almost one in five barrels of oil equivalent of your proved reserves slip off the books, as Exxon announced this week, isn’t the company’s finest hour. Coming just after Exxon took a $2 billion asset impairment, it looks like newly …