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 […]
Poor Grades Tied To Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biological Clocks
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 […]
Researchers Create A Protein ‘mat’ That Can Soak Up Pollution
In a breakthrough that could lead to a new class of materials with functions found only in living systems, scientists at the UC Berkeley have figured out a way to keep certain […]
Professor Stephen Hawking 1942-2018
Friends and colleagues from the University of Cambridge have paid tribute to Professor Stephen Hawking, who died on 14 March 2018 at the age of 76. Widely regarded as one of the world’s […]
Got The Message? Your Brainwaves Will Tell
Neuroscientists from KU Leuven measure brainwaves to determine whether people understand what they hear. The new technique was developed by Professor Tom Francart and his colleagues from the Department of Neurosciences at […]
Watching Others Makes People Overconfident in their Own Abilities
Watching YouTube videos, Instagram demos, and Facebook tutorials may make us feel as though we’re acquiring all sorts of new skills but it probably won’t make us experts, according to research published in Psychological Science, […]
Researchers Call For Large-Scale Scientific Investigation Into Fake News
The indictment of 13 Russians in the operation of a “troll farm” that spread false information related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election has renewed the spotlight on the power of “fake […]
When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?
Companies pay close attention when a competitor drops out of the market, according to new research by Joshua Lev Krieger. Too often, though, they come to the wrong conclusion. In late 2016 drug […]
Which News Outlets Have the Most Power? Columbia Business School Research Spotlights Information Inequality in 18 Countries and Identifies Top News Outlets
Latest Columbia Business School Research of 18 Countries Shows TV Remains the Most Dominate and Influential Source; Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC/NBC Deemed “Most Powerful” NEW YORK – Amid the increased prevalence […]
March 24, 2018: The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Seminar
Title: The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Seminar Date: 24 March 2018 Time: 4.31pm & 5.32pm Venue: Putney Embankment (Close to the start line) + Wimbledon Past Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Seminars by The Future Leadership Institute: […]
