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Researchers breed a fungus that kills mites to save bees
Researchers develop a fungus that kills mites that contribute to honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder.
Is now a good time to get a PhD? We ask those who’ve done it
The number of PhDs has been exceeding the available academic positions since as early as the mid-1990s.
How a “flying circus” gave us the first aerial maps of Earth
Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.
Electric eels and gladiator blood: the curious beginnings of modern medicine
Hippocrates overturned conventional wisdom and invented modern medicine.
How do we know the sun is a star?
Today, it’s common knowledge, but it took scientists centuries to figure out.
Humans aren’t overpopulated. We’re aging and shrinking
Too few babies — not overpopulation — is likely to be a major problem this century.
The incredible story of Wu Hsin and Roy Melvyn
Must a religious story be confirmed as a true fact to be effective and inspiring?
The Mars helicopter’s scary sixth mission
The helicopter’s sixth mission almost went down in disaster.
Turn any place on earth into a New York street corner
ExtendNY stretches the Big Apple’s gridiron all across the globe – with some bizarre effects