by Alexandra Witze from Nature 522, 418 (25 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522418a Step aside, Armageddon and Deep Impact: two films are in competition to be this generation’s seminal asteroid movie. Both […]
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From physics to revolution and back
by Lui Lam from Science 5 June 2015: Vol. 348 no. 6239 p. 1170 doi: 10.1126/science.348.6239.1170 As a boy, I was not interested in science; I was interested in girls. […]
Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry
by Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr, Michel André Maréchal from Nature 516, 86–89 (04 December 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13977 Trust in others’ honesty is a key component of the long-term performance of firms, […]
Doing the math in Berlin
by Kai Kupferschmidt, Gretchen Vogel, from Science 23 May 2014: Vol. 344 no. 6186 pp. 791-792; doi: 10.1126/science.344.6186.791 When Johanna Wanka was a mathematician in communist East Germany, any foray […]
Plastic bubbles help refloat capsized ship
When a freighter carrying 5,000 sheep capsized at the docks in Kuwait harbor in the Persian Gulf and threatened to contaminate a water-purification plant, an idea from a Walt Disney […]
Cell: volume 153, issue 1
The cover: The kind of food an organism consumes has a broad reaching impact on its development, behavior, and lifespan. In this issue, two papers, MacNeil et al. (pp. 240–252) […]
The Spirit: A granule of time
The Spirit‘s newspapers stories (and also the stories published on Quality magazines) are in public domain. I found that the beginning of this story is really interesting, with its intriguing […]