There has been a long running debate among car club enthusiasts on finding the best driving roads in the world. Rental car company Avis decided to turn to science to help solve the […]
Scientific Formula Chooses World’s Best Roads To Drive
Gravity Data Show That Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Increasingly Faster
by Princeton University Communications During the past decade, Antarctica’s massive ice sheet lost twice the amount of ice in its western portion compared with what it accumulated in the east, according to […]
How The Brain Tells Good From Bad
Neuroscientists identify neurons in the amygdala that assign emotions to experience. by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Eating a slice of chocolate cake or spending time with a friend usually stimulates positive […]
Three Secrets To Healthier Eating
by Cornell Food & Brand Lab If you want to know the secrets of healthier eating, think of the kitchen fruit bowl. A fruit bowl makes fruit more convenient, attractive, and normal to […]
Cloud Security Reaches Silicon
by Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office System for defending against memory-access attacks implemented in chips. In the last 10 years, computer security researchers have shown that malicious hackers don’t need to […]
The View From Up There, Down Here
by NASA | Johnson Space Center When many people saw the first stunning photos of the fragile blue marble of Earth from space, it changed their outlook of humanity. It was a […]
Neuronal Positioning System: A GPS To Navigate The Brain
by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem In new research published today by NatureMethods, scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University have announced a “Neuronal Positioning System” (NPS) that maps the […]
New Insight Into How Brain Makes Memories
by David Salisbury | Vanderbilt University Every time you make a memory, somewhere in your brain a tiny filament reaches out from one neuron and forms an electrochemical connection to a neighboring […]
Texas A&M Study Finds We Think Better On Our Feet, Literally
by Texas A&M University A study from the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health finds students with standing desks are more attentive than their seated counterparts. In fact, preliminary […]
New Archive Creates Global Access To Rare African Photos
by Kristen Parker | Michigan State University Hoping to preserve cultural heritage and change Western thought on Africa, a Michigan State University researcher will use a $300,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant […]
May 19th, 2015: 7R FLI Networking Table Followed By Lecture At University Of Amsterdam
Concept: The 7R Future Leadership Institute will organize a networking table around the topic of international travel, followed by a lecture about ‘Tourism and the Academy’ at the University of Amsterdam. Schedule: […]
Celestial Fireworks Celebrate Hubble’s 25th Anniversary
by ESA/Hubble Information Centre On 24 April 1990 the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was sent into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery as the first space telescope of its kind. It offered […]
May 1st, 2015: FLI Networking Table Followed By Oxford University Lecture
Date: 1 May 2015 Networking Table 7R Future Leadership Institute: starts at 16.00 h, prior to the Oxford University lecture. Venue: University Museum of Natural History café: the new Museum café is […]
How Much Of The Amazon Rainforest Would It Take To Print The Internet?
by University of Leicester Students from the University of Leicester have calculated how much paper would be required to physically print the Internet as we know it – and have found that, […]
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