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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...

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...

A Higgs boson decaying into 2 tau leptons (azure cones), which subsequently decay into either an electron (blue line) or a muon (red line). Credit: ATLAS/CERN

Q&A With Scientists From the World’s Largest Science Experiment

Vasudevan Mukunth 31/05/2015

Scientists from the world's largest science experiment participated in...

Deploying an ocean bottom seismometer. Credit: Yusuke Yamashita, ERI, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Rumbling From Ocean Trenches Could Be Sign That Japan Faces Mega Earthquake

Luca De Siena 30/05/2015

Japan already has the most powerful seismic network in...

An artist's impression of New Horizons flying by Pluton, with Charon visible in the background. Credit: SwRI/NASA

Why You Should Care About the New Horizons Probe Nearing Pluto

Vasudevan Mukunth 29/05/2015

The New Horizons probe is less than two months...

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Rethinking Public Policy with Nudges from Psychology

Ritwik Banerjee 29/05/2015

Sixty-seven years since independence and our republic is still...