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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
Chimpanzees self-medicate when under human pressure
Chimpanzees living near people and farm animals are turning to natural remedies to deal with their stressful and disease-prone existence, a new study suggests.
June 21, 2012
Monarch butterflies use plants for medicine
Humans aren’t the only creatures who improve their health with medicine. Monarch butterflies do, too.
June 21, 2012
GM crops: Is there trouble on the horizon?
Pests are adapting to genetically modified - GM crops - in unexpected ways. So researchers are closely monitoring and countering pest resistance to GM crops.
June 21, 2012
Shrimp farmland changes over 25 years
Three satellite images show how shrimp farmland has changed a Pacific coastal landscape over 25 years.
June 21, 2012
Melody made with real stars (the kind in the sky)
Researchers use star data from the Kepler Telescope to create a musical melody. Listen to the melody made with real stars.
June 20, 2012
Love is located in the brain
While love may be a habit, it’s not necessarily a bad one. We want to know where love is and research helps develop the first brain map of love and desire.
June 20, 2012
Arctic ice is melting fast, as summer 2012 begins
In 2007, we saw the smallest summertime Arctic ice extent since record keeping began. As summer 2012 begins, ice is melting faster now than at this same time in 2007.
June 20, 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
