Is there any worse time to be interrupted than right now? Regardless of what we’re doing or the nature of the interruption, we often feel as if we have no time to […]
Time Management: Why We Feel Busier When Close To Reaching A Goal
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Evolution Website Sets Out To Tackle Great Scientific Unknowns
Ever wondered if a fly can ride a bicycle, or whether you could survive only on water? A new website on evolution, created by Cambridge scientists and featuring contributions from luminaries including […]
Children Hit By Their Teachers Linked With Lower Test Scores Later
A new study shows that corporal punishment is still common in countries where it is outlawed, and for the first time using data from low- and middle-income countries researchers have shown a […]
Vast Energy Value In Human Waste
Biogas from human waste, safely obtained under controlled circumstances using innovative technologies, is a potential fuel source great enough in theory to generate electricity for up to 138 million households — the […]
Lifelong Learning: Science Professors Need Leadership Training
To drive discovery, scientists heading up research teams large and small need to learn how people operate, argue Charles E. Leiserson and Chuck McVinney. Education does not stop. Professors must update and […]
Potential Vaccine Aims To Block Transmission Of Malaria Parasites
Vaccine candidate administered for the first time in humans in a phase I clinical trial led by Oxford University’s Jenner Institute, with partners Imaxio and GSK. The Jenner Institute at Oxford University, […]
Images Of Pleasure And Winning Have Unique Distracting Power
Images related to pleasure or winning attract attention from demanding tasks, while equally intense but negative images and those associated with losing can be fully ignored, finds a new UCL study. 51 […]
Nov 19, 2015: What Animals Can Tell Us About Sleep
Oxford University Lecture Topic: Professor Irene Tobler will discuss her research into the evolution and genetic basis of sleep, as well as the mechanisms underlying sleep regulation and ultimately to gain insight […]
Study Links U.S. Polarization To TV News Deregulation
Increasing American political polarization is linked to television news deregulation following the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, according to a Washington State University study. “After 1996, we see changes in polarization based […]
Be An Astronaut: NASA Seeks Explorers For Future Space Missions
In anticipation of returning human spaceflight launches to American soil, and in preparation for the agency’s journey to Mars, NASA announced it will soon begin accepting applications for the next class of […]
Rare Nautilus Sighted For The First Time In Three Decades
In early August, biologist Peter Ward returned from the South Pacific with news that he encountered an old friend, one he hadn’t seen in over three decades. The University of Washington professor […]
Cambridge Author Angus Deaton Wins Nobel Prize For Economics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for 2015 to Angus Deaton, “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.” Deaton, who is Dwight D. […]
When Questionable Claims On Consumer Packaging Are Retracted, Revenue Falls, Study Finds
It is easy to fudge facts when making health claims on consumer packaged goods, especially when the health benefits are hard to verify. But are consumers taken in? And is it […]
Distressed Damsels Cry For Help
In a world first study researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden and James Cook University in Australia and have found that prey fish captured by predators release chemical cues that acts as a […]
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