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Can this former CEO fix the World Bank and solve the...

Rachel Kyte, Tufts University Over the past two years, a drumbeat of calls for reforming the World Bank has...

On the savanna, mobile phones haven’t transformed Maasai lives – yet

Timothy D. Baird, Virginia Tech Mobile phones are everywhere. In fact, they may be nearly as common on the African savanna as they are on...

Who wants a BlackBerry these days? Millions in Africa and Asia

By Nigel Linge, University of Salford BlackBerry, once the must-have device for the sweaty palms of executives and wannabe executives everywhere, has seen its global...

EXPLORING NATURE

Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...

Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma