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Brexit and the UK economy one year on – BBC News
Image copyright Getty Images Before last year’s Brexit vote, there were warnings from many economists that the UK would suffer a catastrophic economic shock and be catapulted into recession by a Leave vote. As it turned out, those predictions were a touch pessimistic. But one year on, what do economists and businesses think of the […]
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell. In 2011, Claudio Aspesi, a senior investment analyst at Bernstein Research in London, made a bet that the dominant firm in one of the most lucrative […]
Great Barrier Reef valued at $56bn as report warns it’s ‘too big to fail’
Deloitte Access Economics report says reef underpins 64,000 jobs and contributes $6.4bn to economy each year. A new report has valued the Great Barrier Reef at $56bn and warns of vast economic consequences for Australia unless more is done to protect it. The Deloitte Access Economics report says the world heritage-listed reef underpins 64,000 direct […]
Study suggests e-cigs are just as harmful as tobacco but there’s a catch
In April researchers at the University of Connecticut released a study that claimed e-cigarettes could be potentially as harmful as tobacco cigarettes when it comes to causing DNA damage. “From the results of our study, we can conclude that e-cigarettes have as much potential to cause DNA damage as unfiltered regular cigarettes,” Karteek Kadimisetty, a […]
New algorithm lets you make anything in origami
They say if you fold 1,000 origami cranes out of individual sheets of paper your deepest wishes will be granted. I tried it once: I was a lonely college kid and I ended up with pink eye. However, a new paper out of MIT describes a way to possibly make 1,000 origami cranes out of […]