How the Federal Reserve literally makes money
Author: William J. Luther, Florida Atlantic University The Federal Reserve has vowed to provide up to US$2.3 trillion in lending...
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High Doses of Ketamine Can Temporarily Switch Off the Brain
Researchers have identified two brain phenomena that may explain some of the side-effects of ketamine. Their measurements of the brain waves...
Food Loss: Why Food Stays On the Farm or Off the Market
Why would a grower leave food unharvested in the field? Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Economic Research...
A Shift to Healthier Diets Likely To Affect Use of Natural Resources
/USDA, Amber Waves/ Natural resources play a central role throughout the system that produces the food we eat, from the...
Fisheries management works, it’s time to apply it more broadly
FAO’s State of the World’s Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020 tracks growing fish production and consumption, and highlights the promise of sustainability actions
Turning Hard-to-Recycle Plastic as Good as New
Plastic waste is a growing environmental concern. About 60 million tonnes of plastics are produced in Europe every year while...
This Is How 1 Million Roses Look Like
A divorced Iranian lady has donated to martyrs all her marriage portion, which included one million roses. Trucks carrying one...
A rising tide of marine disease? How parasites respond to a warming world
Warming events are increasing in magnitude and severity, threatening many ecosystems worldwide. As global temperatures climb, uncertainties increase about the...
Cheaper, lighter and more energy-dense: The promise of lithium-sulphur batteries
The main attraction is that they can store much more energy than a similar battery using current lithium-ion (Li-ion) technology....
A good egg: robot chef trained to make omelettes
A team of engineers have trained a robot to prepare an omelette, all the way from cracking the eggs to...
A Dead Woman in Iran Wakes Up in Mortuary
A 42-year-old Iranian woman whose heart stopped following a cardiac arrest has come back from the dead after 18 hours....
These Most Voted Images by NASA are breathtaking
NASA Earth Observatory held a Tournament Earth voting campaign to choose the most beautiful image from the “image of earth”...