Bug Research Paves the Way for Search-and-Rescue and Exploration Tasks When they turn up in family pantries or restaurant kitchens, cockroaches are commonly despised as ugly, unhealthy pests and are quickly killed. […]
Can a Cockroach Teach a Robot How to Scurry Across Rugged Terrain?
Sequential Model Chips Away At Mysteries Of Aircraft
Ice accumulation on aircraft wings is a common contributing factor to airplane accidents. Most existing models focus on either ice that freezes as a thin film on the airfoil, or immediately after […]
Falling IQ Scores In Childhood May Signal Psychotic Disorders In Later Life
New research shows adults who develop psychotic disorders experience declines in IQ during childhood and adolescence, falling progressively further behind their peers across a range of cognitive abilities. The researchers from King’s […]
How Urban Farmers Are Learning To Grow Food Without Soil Or Natural Light
Growing food in cities became popular in Europe and North America during and immediately after World War II. Urban farming provided citizens with food, at a time when resources were desperately scarce. […]
Firms Need To Support Workers Threatened By Automation
Employees have to be retrained for a business world driven by artificial intelligence. Businesses, governments and educators are not ready for an automated working world where people who fail to retrain throughout […]
Huntington’s disease provides new cancer weapon
Scientists harness a super assassin gene for new cancer treatment Patients with Huntington’s disease, a fatal genetic illness that causes the breakdown of nerve cells in the brain, have up to 80 […]
Newly-developed image guidelines will improve mobile shopping experience worldwide
A new type of online product image, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with global consumer goods company Unilever, could improve the mobile shopping experience for the world’s […]
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Preparing for Years Ahead
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has begun extra stargazing to help the space agency accomplish advances in Mars exploration over the next decade. The spacecraft already has worked more than double its […]
Polluted Air May Pollute Our Morality
Exposure to air pollution, even imagining exposure to air pollution, may lead to unethical behavior, according to findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. A combination of archival and experimental studies indicates […]
How can multinationals get their regional teams to work well together?
The conversations at WEF in Davos last week were varied and wide-ranging, but all centred on a key question: How can we work towards a common, mutually beneficial future in an extremely […]
New Toolkit To Help Parents And Teachers Talk To Children About Online Safety Launched
A new toolkit of resources to tackle the key issues relating to children’s internet use is being launched today (26 January 2018) by Global Kids online. The kit, which comprises illustrative examples and practical […]
Relentless Private School Fee Hikes “Have Not Put Off Parents”
Huge rises in the cost of private schooling in the UK in recent decades have had little impact on the number of parents choosing the sector for their children, according to a […]
Report Highlights Ongoing Human Rights Violations In European Mental Health Systems
Research carried out by the University’s Tizard Centre in conjunction with Mental Health Europe highlights ongoing human rights violations and charts possible future changes in European mental health systems. The report, which […]
Tiny Dinosaur May Have Dazzled Mates With Rainbow Ruff And A Bony Crest
Ancient dinosaurs were adorned in some amazing ways, from the horns of the triceratops to the plates and spikes of the stegosaurus. A newly discovered, bird-like dinosaur fossil from China contains evidence […]
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