Irish actor Gabriel Byrne has said he is searching for a “simple” burial place in Ireland, despite the fact he will never live here again. Speaking at the Dingle Literary Festival at the weekend, the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she and her team investigated cellular recycling centres ...

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