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Journalist and feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem, who co-founded Ms. magazine and spent her life working toward a more equitable world for women and girls, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

California craft beer pioneer Stone Brewing will close three Escondido locations and lay off hundreds of workers as production moves to Paso Robles and Kansas City, Mo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

In 2005, Andrew Yao, a former Princeton professor and winner of the award named after computer-science pioneer Alan Turing, established an elite “Yao class” at Tsinghua to cultivate top-tier talent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

BioNTech, a former pioneer of mRNA cancer vaccines, was part of a broad rally Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

The responses surprised one of the study’s authors, Vicky Rideout, a pioneer in the study of children’s media use.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

The grocer was founded in 1966 by Japanese immigrants Michio and Aveline Kushi — pioneers of the natural-foods macrobiotic movement who began selling imported organic goods out of their Boston home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Chinese artificial-intelligence startups are rapidly closing the capability gap with U.S. pioneers like OpenAI and Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Known as 'vacuum birefringence', the phenomenon was predicted nearly 90 years ago by Werner Heisenberg, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

Delta and United have been among the pioneers of segmentation in economy, and they’ve also focused on attracting richer flyers.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

His own father had been one of Seattle’s most prominent pioneers, establishing a large homestead in the city’s Ravenna Park area, just north of the university.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

The company that pioneered ultrafast fashion now faces a question of what comes next.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The company pioneered a formidable model that is hard to replicate, said Ken Pucker, a sustainable fashion expert at Tufts University.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Meanwhile, even if fully autonomous passenger flight remains elusive, many expect the technology being pioneered will inch into commercial aviation, potentially making piloted flying safer.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Conservation initiative The Grazing Project has pioneered use of the collars on large flocks of sheep, with its efforts so successful it is now training four grazing cows to use the collars too.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

That language was pioneered in English, where, for example, ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning during the seventeenth century.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Success in further, larger trials would give support to the AI-driven model that Insilico and other biotech firms are pioneering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

The company, owned by pioneering YouTubers Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, produces up to 10 hours of internet content weekly across five channels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Vanguard Group’s pioneering S&P 500 index fund.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

An early employee of a pioneering software development company, he became its CEO and main shareholder, enabling his major philanthropic support of international educational programs and his ambitious and informed collecting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

It was his first bill for the cost of turning Berkeley into the nation’s pioneering institution of Big Science.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik