Between November 2008 and October 2014, an additional $85 billion was created on an almost-monthly basis…
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Some good conservation news: India's tiger numbers are going up
Indian tiger numbers are up, according to one of the most detailed wildlife surveys ever conducted.…
DIY pump takes science out of the lab
A simple pressure pump, made from balloons and nylon stockings, will give more people in more…
Travelling towards a quantum internet at light speed
A research team lead by Osaka University demonstrated how information encoded in the circular polarization of…
A catalyst for sustainable methanol
Scientists at ETH Zurich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that…
Freezing cells made safer thanks to new polymer
Cell freezing (cryopreservation)—which is essential in cell transfusions as well as basic biomedical research—can be dramatically…
Image: Ahuna Mons on Ceres
This image, based on observations from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, shows the largest mountain on the dwarf…
Seeing moving objects around corners
David Lindell, a graduate student in electrical engineering at Stanford University, donned a high visibility tracksuit…
Ghanaian case study: How 'bride price' reinforces negative stereotypes
Marriage is an institution common to all cultures. Very often it’s accompanied by transfers—in most cases…
Desert seed-harvesting ants will save nestmates from spiderwebs
It started out as a typical day at work for ant researcher Christina Kwapich. …