science / science - 6 years ago
A scientist on a hike in the Canadian woods has discovered an organism that appears to sit on a new “major branch” of the evolutionary tree of life. Two species of the microscopic creatures, called hemimastigotes, were found in earth collected in Nova Scotia by Dalhousie University graduate student...
science / science - 6 years ago
Archaeologists have uncovered portions of the ancient Greek city of Tenea, whose residents claimed they were prisoners of the Trojan War, the Greek Ministry of Culture announced this week.
science / science - 6 years ago
You might think you're clever but could you answer the brainteaser interview question that Elon Musk has used to screen potential employees? To gauge responses to Musk's riddle, CNBC Make It recently took the question to the streets of Manhattan , stumping nearly everyone we asked. The astrophys...
science / science - 6 years ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson answers a riddle that Elon Musk reportedly asks engineers who are interviewing at his aerospace company SpaceX.
science / science - 6 years ago
"It’s very good for society and for the economy, that is to have a lot of people competing and a few of them succeeding and most of them failing," Daniel Kahneman said. "That’s the way capitalism works.”
science / science - 6 years ago
VERSAILLES, France (AP) — The Latest on a scientific meeting on how to define weights and measures (all times local):
science / science - 6 years ago
How science can resist in times of Bolsonism.
science / science - 6 years ago
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 2.4 million empty manufacturing jobs According to a new report from the consulting firm Deloitte, there will be 4.6 million American manufacturing jobs to fill in the next decade — and 2.4 million of them will g...
science / science - 6 years ago
In one of the latest innovations in the search for eco-friendly building materials, South African university researchers have created bricks using human urine. The first of their kind in the world, the bio-bricks hold out the prospect of a sustainable alternative to standard clay and concrete brick...
science / science - 6 years ago
A British supermarket chain's viral commercial about an orangutan left homeless because of deforestation from palm oil planting was slammed as a cheap publicity stunt by a major industry body on Friday. The Christmas ad -- which features a cartoon orangutan telling a little girl that its jungle hom...
science / science - 6 years ago
Scientists' Long Wait to Redefine the Kilogram Is Finally Over
science / science - 6 years ago
It calls for a "transparent, credible" investigation into the dissident journalist's murder
science / science - 6 years ago
The court convicted Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan of atrocities including genocide
science / science - 6 years ago
All Ryan Kramer had to do was to swab his cheek and embark on nine days of genealogical research to identify his biological father, a man who thought he would remain anonymous when he donated his sperm and never took a DNA test himself. The year was 2005, when consumer DNA tests were in their infan...
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The South African city of Cape Town, which nearly ran out of water this year, could beat future droughts by cutting down non-native trees including pine, acacia and eucalyptus, according to a study released Friday. A report by the Nature Conservancy conservation group said that removing non-native...