Todd Dawson’s field equipment always includes ropes and ascenders, which he and his team use to climb hundreds of feet into the canopies of the world’s largest trees, California’s redwoods. It’s laborious […]
Drones Help Monitor Health Of Giant Sequoias
Lack Of Trust In “Dehumanising” Online World Leaves Disadvantaged Young Further Behind
New LSE research commissioned by The Prince’s Trust, in conjunction with Samsung, reveals the disadvantages young people face offline are preventing them from making the most of the online world. Slipping through […]
Portions Of The Brain Fall Asleep And Wake Back Up All The Time, Stanford Researchers Find
New research finds that small regions of the brain cycle in and out of sleep, even when awake. The cycles shift toward “awake” when that part of the brain pays attention to […]
Children In Care ‘In Need Of Early Education But Too Few Receive It’
Opportunities to narrow the achievement gap between looked after children (children in care) and their peers are being missed because too many of them do not receive good quality early education places, […]
Human Ancestor ‘Lucy’ Was A Tree Climber, New Evidence Suggests
Evidence preserved in the internal skeletal structure of the world-famous fossil, Lucy, suggests the ancient human species frequently climbed trees, according to a new analysis by scientists from The Johns Hopkins University […]
Reconditioning The Brain To Overcome Fear
Researchers have discovered a way to remove specific fears from the brain, using a combination of artificial intelligence and brain scanning technology. Their technique, published in the inaugural edition of Nature Human […]
Experiment By Jan-Emmanuel De Neve Boosts Belgian Tax Compliance By 18.6 Million Euros
Associate Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford has helped boost Belgian tax compliance by 18.6 million Euros, with 1 million Euros saved in administrative costs. De Neve […]
Stanford Researchers Find Students Have Trouble Judging The Credibility Of Information Online
Education scholars say youth are duped by sponsored content and don’t always recognize political bias of social messages. When it comes to evaluating information that flows across social channels or pops up […]
Three crew members representing the United States, Russia and France are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:20 p.m. EST Thursday, […]
Stephen Hawking Launches Centre For The Future Of Intelligence
“The best or worst thing to happen to humanity” – Stephen Hawking launches Centre for the Future of Intelligence Artificial intelligence has the power to eradicate poverty and disease or hasten the […]
Pro-Trump Camp ‘Colonised’ Pro-Clinton Twitter Campaign Says Oxford Internet Institute
Researchers have revealed the scale of automated account activity, including bots, during the US Election. The pro-Trump camp used it ‘up to five times as much as Clinton supporters’ and employed it […]
Restoring Flawed Tumour Vessels May Improve Cancer Treatments
Researchers led by Peter Carmeliet (KU Leuven-VIB) have found a novel way to normalize the dysfunctional blood vessels that are typical of tumours. These vessels play a pivotal role in cancer metastasis, […]
Skipping Breakfast And Not Enough Sleep Can Make Children Overweight
Mothers smoking in pregnancy, children skipping breakfast and not having a regular bedtime or sufficient sleep all appear to be important factors in predicting whether a child will become overweight or obese, […]
Dino-Killing Asteroid Made Rocks Behave like Liquid And Could Have Provided Habitat for New Life
A study of the massive crater that formed when an asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out all nonavian dinosaurs and most life on the planet, is giving insights […]
