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It is the 0.01% who are really getting ahead in America.ECONOMIST

Forget the 1%

It is the 0.01% who are really getting ahead in America.
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

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.
New materials may change the way temperatures are regulated.ECONOMIST

A cool idea

New materials may change the way temperatures are regulated.
Ignore the wet-blanket misinformation and prepare yourself for a flood of ecstatic imaginationECONOMIST

Why you should read Ulysses

Ignore the wet-blanket misinformation and prepare yourself for a flood of ecstatic imagination
An exhibition in London probes the fascinating history of dentistryeconomist

Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim

An exhibition in London probes the fascinating history of dentistry
“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!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!


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