Russ Roberts, a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, talks to Matthew Futterman, sportswriter for the Wall Street Journal, about his recent book “Players” on the progress, innovation, and excellence in sports driven Read More
Researchers at the James Cook University studied the ecological effect of humans on the planet and found that around 97% of Earth’s biologically richest regions have ecological footprints of humankind. Using information collected through surveys Read More
Back in the day, many a development economist would tally up a household’s ownership of consumer durables to estimate their socioeconomic position. Should they be counting local bug populations instead? A recent paper by Read More
A team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign studied the effect of Internet usage on our memory. According to them, we have come to rely heavily Read More
Researchers at the Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, have found that the time at which our body is invaded by viruses has an impact on our susceptibility to infection. Read More
For the longest time, researchers have wondered why humans have bigger and more developed brains compared to primates. A new study by researchers at Vanderbilt University has revealed that there is only one feature that Read More
A team of scientists from Norway and NOAA Fisheries’ Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle studied the effect of oil spills on the haddock, cod, and pollock species of fish. They discovered that the polycyclic Read More
Professor Hod Lipso, a roboticist at Columbia Engineering who works in the areas of artificial intelligence and digital manufacturing, has along with his students developed a prototype of a 3D food printer. This machine, which Read More
When researchers at the University of Tübingen and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) were studying Staphylococcus lugdunensis, an antibiotic-resistant pathogen that colonizes the human nasal cavity, they discovered that this pathogen was Read More
Researchers at the Max Plank Institute led by Didier Stainier, Director of the Department of Developmental Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, have located cloche – a mutant Read More