Krulwich: Do you know anybody in this original group [of people selected to have Celera decode their genome]? Any of your employees, or are they all found objects? Venter: No. Some of them are ...
The World Bank’s Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) provides scholarships to students and young researchers, contributing to the World Bank’s mission of forging new dynamic approaches to ...
The U.S. observes a limit of 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads set in the 2010 New START treaty with Russia even though Moscow "suspended" its participation last year over U.S. support for ...
Just how important is money? Few would deny that it plays a key role in the economy. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, existing economic theory was unable either to explain the causes of the ...
Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers breaking news and updates on Politics, Current Affairs ...
Peder Breivik (Self)Aksel Aleksandersen (Self)Aksel Karlsen (Self)Bernhard Berntsen (Self) Ellen Aanesen A film reportage from the Outer Senja, where the fishing village is growing, from ...
What is a growth mindset? Psychologist Professor Carol Dweck coined the term 'growth mindset' when she researched how people's underlying beliefs about themselves and their abilities can affect ...
Produced at amazing speed in the years after the Conquest, the Domesday Book provides a vivid picture of late 11th-century England. Find out how it was compiled, and what it reveals about life in ...
How did it become possible to sequence the 3 billion base pairs in the human genome? More than a quarter of a century’s worth of work from hundreds of scientists made such projects possible.
The Russian leader visited an institute in Harbin known for defense research. President Xi Jinping saw him off with a rare and seemingly deliberate embrace for the cameras. By David Pierson ...