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Donations in collection box

Technology

A social network built for donating aims to fix slacktivism

Horyou, a social network with its own currency, is hoping to solve the problems of online philanthropy by encouraging big companies to contribute

Building a new sea wall in the Queens borough of New York City, one year after Hurricane Sandy devastated much of the area with severe flooding and wind damage. It's just a pic of some workers and construction equipment with sea visible in the background

Earth

Why even catastrophic events can’t change attitudes to climate

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Life

A Crude Look at the Whole: Complexity is still outsmarting us

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Space

Can big money make big dreams come true?

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Technology

Science is vital to help world shape a new economic era

Humans

Tipping point: The trouble with fatuous gratuities

Humans

How to get rich with maths

Science avoids the worst as savage UK spending cuts unveiled

Earth

Why marrying ecology and economics is essential

Cutting science funding would damage UK economic security

As chancellor George Osborne prepares to lay out his spending plans, William Cullerne Bown explores the effects of science cuts

UK spending cuts must spare science, our key to prosperity

Unshackle science to let the US address global problems

Let Australian science shine to create a truly prosperous future

Health

Death rates rise among white middle-aged US citizens