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Development banks to invest $175 billion for clean urban transport
Urban transport insiders are heralding this announcement as a "real breakthrough" for sustainable transport and sustainable development.
June 21, 2012
Microbiome: Learning to love your inner cooties
They aren’t just found on trash cans, toilets, and infrequently laundered lab coats. Human-housed microbes and their genes are known as the human microbiome.
June 20, 2012
Sky City One in China: 104 elevators, living space for 174,000
The secret to building the world's tallest building - Sky City One - in only 90 days, at much less cost of its nearest rival building? Prefabrication.
June 19, 2012
The nastiest surfaces in your hotel room
An experiment that examined hotel room surfaces found TV remotes to be among the most heavily contaminated with bacteria so are the nastiest surfaces in the room.
June 19, 2012
This is your brain on no self-control
New pictures show - this is your brain - what your brain looks like when you run out of patience and lose your self-control.
June 18, 2012
Genetically-engineered mosquitoes can’t transmit malaria
Scientists have used genetically-engineered mosquitoes whose immune systems kill the malaria parasite. These mosquitoes can't transmit malaria with their bites.
June 17, 2012
Two new elements
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry added two new elements - flerovium and livermorium - on the periodic table to 118.
June 14, 2012
High-fructose corn syrup: A brief history
What is high-fructose corn syrup? And is it making you fat? And is it really more evil than sugar? These questions are harder to answer than you’d think.
June 7, 2012
Fetus DNA: Blood from mom, saliva from dad
Researchers have determined the fetus DNA using only a blood sample from a pregnant woman, and a saliva specimen from the father.
June 7, 2012
Shrimp cocktail or buffalo wings?
Is eating a 100-gram portion of shrimp cocktail really equivalent to burning 90 liters of gasoline, as a widely disseminated story suggests?
June 6, 2012
