by Heidi Harley - 5 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.”
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
VERSAILLES, France (AP) — The Latest on a scientific meeting on how to define weights and measures (all times local):
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
How science can resist in times of Bolsonism.
by Heidi Harley - 5 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 i...
by Heidi Harley - 5 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 sustainab...
by Heidi Harley - 5 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 o...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Scientists' Long Wait to Redefine the Kilogram Is Finally Over
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
It calls for a "transparent, credible" investigation into the dissident journalist's murder
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The court convicted Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan of atrocities including genocide
by Heidi Harley - 5 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...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
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...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Now, a sister company of Google says it has the answer: balloons. Loon, spun out of the search giant’s X innovation lab in July, is teaming up with Telkom Kenya Ltd. to build a network of high-flying balloons to connect people in the east African co...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The number of people missing in one of California's deadliest wildfires soared to more than 600 on Thursday as the remains of seven additional victims were found by rescuers. Authorities said the list of missing people had jumped from 300 to 631 dur...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
We might not know a whole lot about what's going on inside Mars, the Moon, or even the deepest reaches of Earth's oceans, but scientists have a pretty clear picture of the Earth's surface. Or at least they thought they did. A new discover...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Bangladesh’s plans to begin repatriating Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar on Thursday were scrapped because officials were unable to find anyone who wanted to return to the country.