New Technology Could Wean The Battery World Off Cobalt
Lithium-based batteries use more than 50 percent of all cobalt produced in the world. These batteries are in your cell phone, laptop and maybe even your car. About 50 percent of the […]
Ancient Bones Suggest First Humans Travelled Further Than We Think
Scientists have discovered an ancient bone in Saudi Arabia, dating back to 90,000 years ago. The relic is the oldest human (Homo sapiens) fossil to have been found outside of Africa and […]
NASA Ready to Study Heart of Mars
NASA is about to go on a journey to study the interior of Mars. The space agency held a news conference today at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, detailing […]
Why We Struggle To Get a Good Night’s Sleep As We Get Older
New research has identified the way age impairs the ability of the circadian clock in mammals to re-set itself when exposed to light, resulting in disruption to sleeping patterns and consequent threats […]
Giving Up Facebook Leads To a Drop in the Stress-related Hormone Cortisol, Study finds
Quitting Facebook for five days was associated with a drop in the stress hormone cortisol, according to a preliminary study published in the Journal of Social Psychology. “I have been a Facebook user […]
Is ‘Gut Feel’ a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
Most investments in startups should never be made, at least when using by-the-numbers reasoning. But funded they are. Laura Huang believes investors use gut instinct to manage that risk. The odds investors face when […]
Most Millennials Will Only Work For Purpose-driven Firms
Today’s talent is attracted to companies whose values match their own. The most attractive companies to today’s talent are driven by purpose, according to London Business School (LBS) experts. “Maybe we will […]
Facebook Data Breach Teaches Firms a Competitive Lesson
The world’s most dominant social media player has apologised, but will it change? The Cambridge Analytica scandal may have cost Facebook its top five rating in the S&P 500 market cap club, […]
Poor Grades Tied To Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biological Clocks
It may be time to tailor students’ class schedules to their natural biological rhythms, according to a new study from UC Berkeley and Northeastern Illinois University. Researchers tracked the personal daily online […]
How Amazon’s Second Headquarters Can Advance the Clean Energy Economy
Amazon encouraged cities to think boldly about how its second headquarters (HQ2) can enhance and transform their communities. We urge both Amazon and the bidding cities to adopt the same enterprising and […]
ARIEL Mission To Better Understand Exoplanet Evolution Gets Green Light
Oxford University are to play a key role in ARIEL, a new research mission to better understand the formation and evolution of exoplanets. The project was chosen by the European Space Agency […]
Natural Sniper Kills Hospital Bacterium
Microbial geneticists at KU Leuven have unravelled how a specific type of protein eliminates the hospital bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, scientists are constantly searching for new antibiotics. One […]
Parents’ Lives Made More Miserable By Boomerang Generation
Adult children who return to live with their parents, the so-called ‘boomerang generation’, cause a significant decline in parents’ quality of life and well-being, according to new LSE research. The cost of […]
NASA Powers on New Instrument Staring at the Sun
NASA has powered on its latest space payload to continue long-term measurements of the Sun’s incoming energy. Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1), installed on the International Space Station, became fully operational […]
