List of Science and Technology articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How the ‘Ninja Lanternshark’ Got Its Name
Four children and a shark researcher spoke in a Google Hangout. The rest is taxonomic history.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watch Marines Build the Bridge Iraq Is Using to Take Back Ramadi
The Iraqi army is using a floating bridge given by the United States to score a huge military win in Ramadi.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Brain Scientists Should Fail
2015 Global Thinkers Miguel Nicolelis and Anthony Zador discuss the importance of funding creative neuroscience experiments when — and especially when — the outcome is unknown.
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Vestager_BW (1) Margrethe Vestager
For bursting Google's bubble.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Future of Accessibility Innovation
FP Global Demographics Student Essay Contest, presented by AARP: As the global population ages, new technology is helping improve quality of life.
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illo_hackers_shell Anonymous vs. the Islamic State
For nearly a year, a war has been unfolding in strange corners of the Internet. But can a bunch of hackers really take on the world’s deadliest jihadi group?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Epidemics on the Move
2013 Global Thinker Caroline Buckee and FP Voice Laurie Garrett discuss how human migration — and the refugee crisis — poses an immense problem to treating disease.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is the Islamic State Taking Its Fight to the Skies?
The militants who control much of Syria and Iraq may be taking a page from the al Qaeda handbook and trying to blow up passenger jets.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 CrowdStrike: ‘We Are Not Stating the Chinese Are Violating the Cyber Agreement’
The security company hasn't proved China is in violation of its recent cyber agreement with the United States.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 When the 0.00001 Percent Sneeze
The world’s tycoons are in turmoil. The schadenfreude may be strong with this one-- but when the rich get poorer, everyone should worry.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Silicon Fallacy
Why Silicon Valley’s notion that failure leads to success won’t work for the rest of the world.
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438C8289-r1 The Age of Infection
Meet the iChip, a plastic block that helped scientists discover a new antibiotic that kills superbugs. Will it be enough to save humankind from the coming bacterial apocalypse?
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Zhao Bowen of Quantihealth works in his lab on Tuesday, 4th August 2015 in Beijing, China. Beijing’s Test Tube Baby
Zhao Bowen dropped out of high school, shunned state-run academies, and launched a gene-mapping start-up. Why the boy who once broke all the rules could be the man to lead a new generation of Chinese scientists.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An App Won’t Solve India’s Bloated Bureaucracy Problem
Narendra Modi’s whirlwind tour of Silicon Valley won't make up for India’s inability to implement economic reforms at home.
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The reconstructed remains of Pan Am flight 103 lie in a warehouse on January 15, 2008 in Farnborough, England. The Air Accident Investigation Branch have housed the remains of the Boeing 747 for the past 19 years. 20 years ago a terrorist bomb exploded on-board destroying the aircraft over the Scottish town of Lockerbie killing 270 people including 11 people on the ground. Longform’s Picks of the Week
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