A submarine designed and built by engineering students at the University of Warwick was awarded 1st Prize for Innovation at the 2015 the International Submarine Races (ISR). Held at the Carderock Naval […]
Warwick Engineering Students Design World Beating Submarine
Oxford Saïd Research Shows How CEOs Keep In The Know – And Why Sometimes They Fail
CEOs know that it’s vital for them to keep on top of what’s going on in their organisation, and almost all have developed a ‘personal knowledge infrastructure’ to help them do just […]
“Brainy” Mice Raise Hope Of Better Treatments For Cognitive Disorders
Researchers have created unusually intelligent mice by altering a single gene and as a result the mice were also less likely to feel anxiety or recall fear. The study, led by the […]
Academic Ranking Of World Universities 2015
The 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has been released by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Starting from 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world Top 500 […]
Frequent Travel Is Damaging To Health And Wellbeing, According To New Study
Researchers from the University of Surrey and Lund University (Sweden) investigated how frequent, long-distance travel is represented in mass and social media. They found that the images portrayed do not take into […]
Graduates From Britain’s Top Research Universities Could Help Food Industry Become Best In The World
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and a group of industry leaders and academics in the UK are joined in a cross-sector task force recommending greater cooperation between universities and […]
U-M Opens Mcity Test Environment For Connected And Driverless Vehicles
ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan has opened Mcity, the world’s first controlled environment specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies that will lead the way to mass-market […]
Conservation Organizations Need To Keep Up With Nature, Experts Say
Nature is on the move. As the impacts of climate change reveal themselves, species and ecosystems are moving in response. This poses a fundamental challenge to conservation organizations–how do you conserve something […]
Vineyard Natural Habitats Assist With Butterfly Comeback
By Scott Weybright, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – Washington wine grape vineyards experimenting with sustainable pest management systems are seeing an unexpected benefit: an increase in […]
Antibiotic Pollution Of Waterways May Create Superbugs Of Tomorrow
A team from Macquarie University has proved for the first time that even low concentrations of antibiotics are polluting waterways, according to a study published today in Frontiers in Microbiology. Using low, […]
Mapping Poaching Threats: York Ecologists And Wildlife Conservation Society Develop New Method
Ecologists from the University of York, together with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), have developed a new method to better identify where poachers operate in protected […]
Salt And High Blood Pressure – Comments From Georgetown Cardiologist
WASHINGTON— According to a study published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, “People who gradually increase the amount of salt in their diet and people who habitually eat a higher […]
Stanford Researchers Find Mental Health Prescription: Nature
By Rob Jordan Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Feeling down? Take a hike. A new study finds quantifiable evidence that walking in nature could lead to a lower risk of depression. […]
Fifty Years Of Fat: News Coverage Of Trends Yhat Predate Obesity Prevalence
ITHACA, N.Y. – What’s in the newspaper today can predict how skinny or fat a country’s population will be tomorrow, says new research published in BMC Public Health by Brian Wansink, Professor […]
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