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Plant-based vaccines can change the vaccine landscape
Vaccines can be grown in and extracted from the leaves of plants.
Infectious disease and the bitter Koch-Pasteur vaccine rivalry
Robert Koch proved that microbes cause infectious diseases and famously identified the etiological agents of anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera.Louis Pasteur proved that life does not spontaneously ge...
These 1,000 hexagons show how global wealth is distributed
A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.
The power of group identity: 22 percent of Americans remain skeptical of vaccines
According to this research, eight percent of Americans always refuse vaccines. Why?
What happened before the Big Bang?
Asking science to determine what happened before time began is like asking, “Who were you before you were born?”
How a rubber hand could treat OCD
A well-known psychology trick called the “rubber hand illusion” could be useful for treating patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Greed and the philosophy of wealth
When does a healthy desire for wealth morph into greed? And how can we stop it?
This programmable fiber has memories and can sense temperature
Researchers were even able store and read a 767-kilobit full-color short movie file in the fabric.
No news is good news? Think again
Information economics suggests that “no news” means somebody is hiding something. But people are bad at noticing that.