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Day 437: Keep the focus on inequality Tax the rich, or eat the rich, let the rich decide. Further Reading: Dear Canada: Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime Arizona teachers vote to strike...

The Finnish government is planning to conclude its much-touted universal basic income experiment at the end of a two-year study period instead of extending it...

Everyone knows that California's San Andreas fault is a ticking time bomb ready to erupt - but a new study shows that another fault right under the East Bay is far more dangerous...

Day 436: Keep the focus on inequality Tax the rich, or eat the rich, let the rich decide. Further Reading: As Workers See Crumbs, Biggest Wall Street Banks Have Already Pocketed $2.5 Billion From Trump Tax Scam Southern Ohio,...

Who hasn't found themselves ready to throw a half-assembled IKEA chair across the room in a fit of frustration? If you are one of the many humans that still struggle to piece it all together, don't despair: the robots are...

Scientists used to make graphene-based membranes in small batches in a laboratory. But a new breakthrough at MIT enables researchers to roll out large sheets of high-quality graphene. The continuous manufacturing process...

We all know about the supervolcano boiling underneath Yellowstone - but, until now, we didn't know what was fueling the cauldron. This week, scientists revealed that they were able to model the behavior of two magma chambers...

Diamonds in a meteorite that crashed into Earth years ago have now given scientists a glimpse into the universe's past. Recently, a team of scientists led by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland...

From the National Association of Scholars via an article in the Wall Street Journal. Policy makers often cite research to justify their rules, but many of those studies wouldn’t replicate   Half the results published...

Could we solve the plastic pollution crisis with a mutant enzyme? At a trash dump in 2016, Japanese researchers discovered the first known bacterium that had evolved to consume plastic...

Through the magic of moss, anything is possible. Scientists at the University of Stockholm have discovered that Warnstofia fluitans, or floating hook moss, is capable of extracting arsenic from water. The miracle moss is...

A historic climate boundary which marks the division between the humid eastern region of North America and the more arid western region has deviated 140 miles to the east of its original location — thanks to climate change...

Researchers at the University of Maryland have invented a new water-based zinc battery that is safer than a traditional lithium-ion battery, but which doesn't sacrifice power or usability...

Earth just survived a near miss with an asteroid, and we didn't even know it was coming. Around 1,500 people were injured in the aftermath of the Chelyabinsk meteorite when it exploded over Russia in 2013, and an even larger asteroid just...

Around 1.3 million people participated in March for Science rallies all around the world last year, according to New Scientist. Marchers turned out in droves to voice concern over the Trump administration's climate change...