If China Can Fund infrastructure with Its Own Credit, So Can We | Ellen Brown

May 17, 2017 (Web of Debt) -- May 15th-19th has been designated “National Infrastructure Week” by the U.S. Chambers of Commerce, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and over 150 affiliate ...

Pufferfish and humans share the same genes for teeth | Alexandre P. Thiery et al.

By Brocken Inaglory - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2219327 May 16, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Human teeth evolved from the same genes that make the bizarre beaked t ...

Special Counsel Can Examine Trump From All Angles | Noah Feldman

Robert S. Mueller IIIHistory shows that Robert Mueller's investigation might not end up where it starts. May 17, 2017 (Bloomberg) -- Former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s appointment by the Department ...

Stars as random number generators could test foundations of physics | Lisa Zyga

By ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8788068 May 16, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Stars, quasars, and other celestial objects generate photons in a random way, and now scie ...

Possible signs of life found ten kilometers below seafloor | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Credit: Oliver Plümper, Utrecht University April 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has found possible evidence of life ten kilometers below the sea floor in the Mariana Tren ...

US takes down huge botnet as Spain arrests notorious Russian hacker | Paul Handley

From: incapsula.comApril 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- U.S. authorities moved Monday to take down a global computer botnet behind the massive theft of personal data and unwanted spam emails, as Spain arrest ...

Mysterious isolated object investigated by astronomers | Tomasz Nowakowski

This artist’s impression shows the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/P. Delorme/R. Saito/VVV Consortium. March 13, 2017 (Phys.org) -- An international team of as ...

Temperate earth-sized worlds found in extraordinarily rich planetary system | PhysOrg

This artist's impression shows the view from the surface of one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. At least seven planets orbit this ultra cool dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth and they are ...

US is no longer a full democracy, EIU warns | Nyshka Chandran

Jan. 25, 2017 (CNBC) -- The United States has been demoted from a full democracy to a flawed democracy for the first time, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Every year, the firm's D ...

Tigers could roam again in Central Asia, scientists say | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Artist's depiction of a Caspian tiger. Credit: Heptner and Sludskiy 1972 Jan. 17, 2017 (PhysOrg) -- Caspian tigers, some of the largest cats that ever lived -- up to 10 feet long and weighing more th ...

The End of the American Century | John Michael Greer

Nov. 30, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- I have a bone to pick with the Washington Post. A few days back, as some of my readers may be aware, it published a list of some 200 blogs that it claimed were cir ...