ECONOMIST
Teenagers are growing more anxious and depressed
Could they hold the culprit in their hands?
ECONOMIST
Plastic-eating caterpillars could save the planet
Past attempts to use living organisms to get rid of plastics have not gone well. Even the most promising species, a bacterium called Nocardia asteroides, takes more than six months to obliterate a film of plastic a mere half millimetre thick. Judging by the job they had done on her bag, Dr Bertocchini suspected wax-moth caterpillars would perform much better than that.
ECONOMIST
Why you should read Ulysses
Ignore the wet-blanket misinformation and prepare yourself for a flood of ecstatic imagination
economist
Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim
An exhibition in London probes the fascinating history of dentistry
economist
Websites offering pirated papers are shaking up science
“Musicians and moviemakers are not the only ones to suffer from internet piracy”. China and Iran are reading our science for free, oh bu-hu. // The Economist sides with publishers. Oh, how surprising. But the tides are still turning, you hegemonic pigs you!