III Sport Medicine, Surgery & Health meeting at the Ciudad del Fútbol – Ernest Schilders speaking
A pleasure to be in Madrid this week at the invitation of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for the III Sport Medicine, Surgery & Health meeting at the Ciudad del Fútbol. […]
Leren lezen en rekenen verandert de hersenen al na één schooljaar
Hoe de hersenen van jonge kinderen zich ontwikkelen, is niet alleen een kwestie van biologie of rijping, maar wordt ook rechtstreeks beïnvloed door het onderwijs. Dat hebben KU Leuven-onderzoekers vastgesteld door het […]
The university and American innovation
Writing in Science, JHU President Ron Daniels describes how the historical partnership between research universities and the federal government has ensured the nation’s scientific preeminence The transformation of the United States’ research enterprise […]
Oxford researchers uncover how Parkinson’s disease protein damages brain cells
A new study reveals a key mechanism by which the protein alpha-synuclein, the hallmark of Parkinson’s disease, damages neurons (brain cells) by blocking a vital cellular gateway. The results of the study, […]
Could AI be growing up?
Three takeaways from the world’s largest edtech event By Craig Nicholson, Chief AI Officer15 May 2026 Following his recent trip to the world’s largest event on the future of learning and education […]
How the market values AI and advanced analytics investments
How do capital markets respond when firms in traditional industries integrate AI and advanced analytics (AIAA)? Having analysed stock market reactions to 397 announcements by biopharmaceutical firms between 2001 and 2020, Michael Freeman and […]
How independent creative workers negotiate audience relationships
Independent creative workers, from visual artists to musicians, need to achieve widespread appeal. But once they do, managing the relationship with their audience is the next challenge. In a study of independent […]
From range anxiety to charge anxiety
Is range anxiety still the main factor limiting EV adoption? Charge anxiety seems to have taken over. It arises from five factors: Anton S. Ovchinnikov and his collaborator present three empirically grounded analytical models, […]
Should you aggregate expert estimates and forecasts?
How frequent are large disagreements in human judgement? Miguel Sousa Lobo and his co-author found that the frequency with which an individual judgement differs substantially from the consensus looks less like a bell curve […]
DNA shape explains crucial gene-therapy challenges
Researchers at Imperial College London, the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), and the University of Sheffield have shown that the physical twisting of DNA plays an important role in correcting for […]
DNA research to shed light on the alleged remains of the Dukes of Brabant
Does St Peter’s Church in Leuven really contain the remains of the Dukes of Brabant from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? DNA research led by KU Leuven aims to provide a definitive […]
A Revolution in Governance: How AI Will Make Boards More Effective
Far from making directors redundant, AI will enable boards to see further, act faster and govern better. The modern board of directors has its origins in medieval merchant guilds and developed in […]
The rules of global business are being rewritten. Leadership must evolve to keep pace
The forces reshaping global business demand more than strategy. They require leaders who can interpret uncertainty, adapt at speed, and bring coherence to an increasingly unstable environment. For the first time in […]
Learning to Lead as a New Manager
How new managers can better prepare themselves as they transition from an individual contributor to a leader. You’ve just been promoted to a manager. Now what? The truth is that new managers […]
Gut immune cells play a key role in infections and complications in liver cirrhosis
Researchers at KU Leuven have discovered that specific immune cells in the gut play a crucial role in the development of bacterial infections in liver cirrhosis. The findings help explain why patients […]
Vega Is Not as Quiet as We Thought: Astronomers Discover a Complex Magnetic Field
More than a decade of exceptionally precise observations has revealed two very different magnetic fields on Vega, one of the best-known stars in the night sky. The discovery could change our understanding […]
How Cells Keep Their Genetic Balance: A Gene-by-Gene Compensation System
Researchers at KU Leuven and Erasmus MC have discovered that cells can compensate for the loss of genes by increasing the activity of their remaining copy. Surprisingly, this balancing act does not […]
Blood Platelets Are Hiding DNA — and That Could Help Detect Cancer Earlier
Oxford researchers have discovered that blood platelets do far more than help stop bleeding. They also collect and store fragments of DNA circulating in the bloodstream — including DNA released by cancer […]
Repairing the heart: If zebrafish can do it, why not humans?
UC Berkeley and Caltech researchers tracked down genes that help zebrafish regenerate injured heart muscle. Can CRISPR activate this circuit in humans with heart disease? Humans can’t regenerate heart muscle damaged by […]
The Song of Wade
Decoding a lost English legend, solving a Chaucerian mystery, and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. […]
2,700 Kilometres Below Our Feet, Solid Rock Is Flowing
Scientists at ETH Zurich have solved a geological mystery that has puzzled researchers for around half a century. Deep inside the Earth, seismic waves suddenly accelerate — and the explanation reveals that […]
3,800 Digital Hearts Are Teaching Scientists How the Real Heart Ages
Researchers have created more than 3,800 anatomically accurate digital replicas of human hearts, revealing how age, sex and obesity influence the heart’s electrical behaviour. The technology could ultimately contribute to more personalised […]
Study reveals how alcohol abuse damages cognition
Months after withdrawal, brain activity during decision-making remained impaired in rats For the first time, researchers demonstrated in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain […]
New, cutting-edge microscope will boost imaging capabilities
The University of Oxford’s Department of Materials celebrated a new chapter in its microscopy facilities with the arrival of a bespoke £3 million Transmission Electron Microscope. The JEOL GrandARM300F instrument will support […]
Technology Reveals Alfred Tennyson’s Hidden Words After More Than a Century
Oxford researchers have recovered previously unreadable writing by Alfred Tennyson, using advanced imaging technology to see through crossings-out, ink blots and damage. The discovery gives scholars a new opportunity to observe one […]
Want an Organisation That Can Change? Invest in Adaptive Leadership
Uncertainty requires organisations that can respond to new challenges. Adaptive leadership can help create a culture of learning while giving employees the confidence they need to embrace change. In a business environment […]
Business and Inequality: Why Leadership Has a Role to Play
Reducing the widening gap between rich and poor has become one of the defining challenges of our time. While governments are traditionally expected to address inequality through taxation and redistribution, companies also […]
The Brain Has a Chemical Metronome That Helps Keep Time
Scientists at Imperial College London have discovered that astrocytes — brain cells once regarded largely as support cells — produce rhythmic chemical signals that help synchronise the brain’s master biological clock. The […]
80-Million-Year-Old Bird Brain Reveals the Origins of Avian Intelligence
An extraordinarily preserved fossil bird from Brazil has allowed scientists to reconstruct the brain of a bird that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The 80-million-year-old skull of Navaornis hestiae fills a crucial evolutionary […]
Oxford named best university in the world for a record ninth consecutive year
Oxford University has been world number one in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings since 2017 – the longest time any university has held the position in the 21 annual editions of the […]
Scientists Create a New Two-Dimensional Phase of Matter
Physicists at the University of Cambridge have experimentally created the first two-dimensional “Bose glass” — a strange state of matter in which particles become trapped rather than spreading through the system. The […]
The World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Narrows the Search
Dark matter appears to dominate the mass of the Universe, yet nobody knows what it is. Deep beneath South Dakota, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has completed its most sensitive search yet — and […]
Fossil Microbes in Spain Could Help Scientists Search for Life on Mars
Scientists have used powerful X-ray nano-imaging to investigate fossilised microorganisms preserved in one of Earth’s most extreme environments. The fossils from Spain’s Río Tinto could help researchers recognise ancient traces of life […]
Scientists Create Black-Hole ‘Plasma Fireballs’ on Earth
Scientists led by the University of Oxford have created extraordinarily dense beams of matter and antimatter in the laboratory. Containing around 10 trillion electron-positron pairs, these artificial “fireballs” could allow researchers to […]
Scientists Make Electron Whirlpools Visible at Room Temperature
Electrons are normally imagined as particles travelling through a wire. But under the right conditions they can behave collectively like a liquid — complete with microscopic whirlpools. ETH Zurich researchers have now […]
Shape-Shifting Cancer Cells Reveal New Targets to Stop Cancer Spreading
Scientists have discovered two genes that help melanoma cells change their shape as they move through different tissues. The finding reveals one of the tricks cancer uses to spread through the body […]
The World’s Oldest Known Fossil Forest Has Been Found in England
Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossil forest on Earth. Dating back approximately 390 million years, the ancient trees reveal how the arrival of the first forests began transforming not only life […]
Atoms Remember Where They Have Been
Oxford scientists have observed an extraordinary effect at the atomic scale: the movement of ions can retain a “memory” of what happened moments earlier. The discovery challenges a simple assumption about how […]
Ancient DNA Reveals Why Multiple Sclerosis Is More Common in Northern Europe
DNA recovered from ancient human bones and teeth has revealed a remarkable evolutionary explanation for one of modern medicine’s mysteries. Genetic variants that today increase the risk of multiple sclerosis appear to […]
Wildfires are much worse than a sign of climate change
Expert explains the dual threat posed by a crisis spreading beyond our control Summer headlines have screamed of climate extremes: Record temperatures, an ocean heat wave, and rampant wildfires, including Canadian blazes […]
Stanford Medicine researchers take part in HuBMAP, showing what healthy human tissue looks like
Stanford Medicine scientists describe details of the human intestine and placental tissue as part of the National Institute of Health’s Human Biomolecular Atlas Program. More often than not, studies of human biology […]
Online consumers at risk from ‘intelligent’ price manipulation: Oxford and Imperial experts
Sophisticated computer algorithms used to set prices in online marketplaces put consumers at risk of collusion among sellers, according to a study today from computer scientists at the Oxford Internet Institute and Imperial College. Widespread […]
Taking a lesson in evolutionary adaptation from octopus, squid
Two new studies describe path of divergent sensing capabilities, tracking lineage from common ancestral neurons Cephalopods such as octopus and squid evolutionarily diverged from mollusks like slugs and snails. These animals have […]
February 12, 2023: Darwin’s Drink
The Future Leadership Institute celebrates the birthday of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin: 12 February 1809 – 12 February 2023 Date: 12 February 2023, 19.00h Venue: Private (Belgium) Tickets: By invitation only Attendance: […]
New modelling study shows that most plastic debris on Seychelles beaches comes from far-off sources
A new modelling study shows that the Seychelles and other islands in the western Indian Ocean are not responsible for most of the plastic waste that accumulates on their beaches. Vast amounts […]
February 12, 2022: Darwin’s Coronadrink
The Future Leadership Institute celebrates the birthday of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin: 12 February 1809 – 12 February 2022 Date: 12 February 2022, 19.00h Venue: Your Own House Tickets: Please invite yourself, to have drink […]
February 12, 2021: Darwin’s Coronadrink
The Future Leadership Institute celebrates the birthday of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin: 12 February 1809 – 12 February 2022 Date: 12 February 2021, any chosen time Venue: Your Own House Tickets: Please invite yourself, to […]
February 12, 2020: Darwin’s Drink: New York
The Future Leadership Institute organizes every year a DARWIN’S DRINK to celebrate the life of Charles Darwin. Date: 12 February 2020 This year (2020) we invited people all over the world to join […]
February 12, 2020: Darwin’s Drink: Down House, UK (house of Darwin)
The Future Leadership Institute organizes every year a DARWIN’S DRINK to celebrate the life of Charles Darwin. Date: 12 February 2020 This year (2020) we invited people all over the world to […]
February 12, 2020: Darwin’s Drink: Galápagos Research Station
The Future Leadership Institute organizes every year a DARWIN’S DRINK to celebrate the life of Charles Darwin. Date: 12 February 2020 This year (2020) we invited people all over the world to […]
