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25/07/2014 - 14:05

So what, exactly, do consumers have to fear? To find out, Popular Science chose 10 of the most common claims about GMOs and interviewed... →

20/07/2014 - 19:50

So why don't we? Where food is concerned, we're complicated. We aspire to extreme thinness as advocated by fashion and reinforced by the... →

15/07/2014 - 11:03

2) After the end of the colonial era, it was inevitable that to keep these artificial countries alive, and avoid their disintegration,... →

10/07/2014 - 16:26

Elizabeth Blackburn has always been fascinated by how life works. Born in 1948, she grew up by the sea in a remote town in Tasmania,... →

03/07/2014 - 13:30

Диаграмма 2. Потребление первичной энергии в 2011 году (тонн нефтяного эквивалента на единицу ВВП). Промышленный сектор Удельное... →

02/07/2014 - 15:49

Honey trap The bots most likely to fool us employ colourful trickery, explains Richard Wallace of Pandorabots, which makes chatbots for... →

27/06/2014 - 14:35

“Such a conversion, even though it’s a wonderful story, never happened,” Stampfer said. Stampfer, an expert in Jewish history, analyzed... →

22/06/2014 - 15:19

But let’s go back to Slava. When we first meet Fishman’s (sort-of) anti-hero, he is perched precariously between two incompatible worlds.... →

16/06/2014 - 11:56

Without such solutions, an estimated $57 trillion of infrastructure investment would be needed in 2013-2030, just to keep pace with GDP... →

10/06/2014 - 11:17

The seething, bloodthirsty hatred of the USA and her values is just a palpable in Russia today as it ever was in the USSR. In an amazing... →

04/06/2014 - 11:53

The other interesting feature of capital is that it is accumulated through savings. A person or country that saves 100 units of income... →

30/05/2014 - 10:34

Still, today’s economic elite is very different from that of the nineteenth century, isn’t it? Back then, great wealth tended to be... →

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