Month: June 2015

Ammonia revolutionised agriculture. Credit: eutrophication&hypoxia/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Five Chemistry Inventions That Enabled the Modern World

Mark Lorch 02/06/2015

It turns out most people just don’t have a...

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Curious Bends – the Misery Index, Twin Births, Ethnic Inequality and More

Akshat Rathi & Vasudevan Mukunth 01/06/2015

Curious Bends is a weekly newsletter curated by science...

Number of eggs, glasses of milk and fruits served each week in school mid-day meals. Credit: Swati Narayan

Shivraj Chauhan Removes Eggs from Mid-Day Meals in Three Districts

The Wire Staff 01/06/2015

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chauhan has removed eggs...

This sign might actually be appealing to treasure hunters in the distant future. Credit: Alan English CPA/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Three Problems With the Way We Think About Nuclear Power

Olav Muurlink 01/06/2015

Nuclear waste lasts a very long time, and we...

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Can We Unlearn Social Biases While We Sleep?

Xiaoqing Hu 01/06/2015

We now have lots of evidence that while you...