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Science fair winning teenagers, Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao, have identified a new bacteria that breaks down nasty compounds called phthalates, common to flexible plastics and linked to health problems. Because once it’s created, plastic (almost) never dies – they found an answer to the burning question of how to break down plastics – surprisingly close to home…
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We’re obsessed with Time. Songs and literature don’t forget to remind us that Time goes by, that Time is the key measure of almost everything, even of apparently very solid, indestructible structures as concrete walls. There’s a key question about Time, which is that we know Time’s effects but – as for many other of…
According to the Economist, the business of propelling large passenger jets is at maximum thrust – so much so, that some reckon engine-makers’ revenues could total $1 trillion over the next 20 years. This is precisely why Pratt & Whitney is gearing up for a fight, in hoping a new high-tech engine will restore its former…
Many times, regardless of how well we plan, some things just fail. Maybe it’s a webinar or a meeting presentation that was well prepared for, but suffered technical difficulty; maybe a savings plan losing nearly half of its value in today’s recession. These challenging situations define our days, but our responses to them determine our…
With Britain attracting so many foreign investments to their shores, one has to wonder if they are shooting themselves in the foot? If local owners were majority share holders, one would assume that job creation would be on the rise and that more employment opportunities would be created locally, thus empowering the community. By selling…
GM has been under heavy pressure for some time now. Their problems began small, with just 500 of their latest full-size pickups being recalled because of a minor problem with airbags. But GM’s woes escalated after admitting that it waited a decade to act on an ignition-switch problem linked to at least 13 deaths, in addition to…
The revolutionary theory of the nature of light which won Albert Einstein the 1921 Nobel prize for physics went on to remake the world. Oliver Morton surveys a century of innovation. Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel prize for physics in 1922. The temporal anomaly embodied in that sentence was not, alas, one of the…
