Among the many charitable programs, there are both effective ones that help develop the economies of poor countries and improve people's lives, and downright strange and controversial ones, like PlayPump - ineffective water pumps disguised as children's carousels and powered by child labor. GiveDirectly is trying to tackle poverty in Africa ...

Co-founder of Mail.ru Group, Yuri Milner, decided to invest one hundred million dollars in a project to search for extraterrestrial civilizations. As the entrepreneur said at a press conference in London, the idea is to use the most powerful telescopes on Earth, united in a large-scale computer system, to conduct ...