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Why are Russia and Ukraine on the brink of war?

Feb 18, 2022

Russian president Vladimir Putin is playing mind games with the rest of the world over a potential war with Ukraine, a leading expert from The Australian National University (ANU) says....

Forget handheld virtual reality controllers: a smile, frown or clench will suffice

Feb 18, 2022

18 February 2022Different facial expressions can now manipulate objects in a VR setting. “A smile was used to trigger the ‘move’ command; a frown for the ‘stop’ command and a...

Ancient crab with big eyes was an active predator

Feb 18, 2022

In this recent paper, Luque and colleagues analyze seven pairs of exceptionally preserved Callichimaera eyes. The internal soft tissues in the eyes of Callichimaera they examined showed a closer similarity...

First-ever Climate Grand Challenges recognizes 27 finalists

Feb 18, 2022

All-carbon buildings, climate-resilient crops, and new tools to improve the prediction of extreme weather events are just a few of the 27 bold, interdisciplinary research projects selected as finalists from...

Mathematician George Lusztig receives Wolf Prize

Feb 17, 2022

George Lusztig, the Abdun-Nur Professor of Mathematics at MIT, has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Wolf Prize in Mathematics for his work on geometric representation theory and algebraic groups. These...

Why is menopause still a taboo subject?

Feb 17, 2022

So why is the subject of menopause still taboo? And that includes after menopause.”Dr Foran suggests stigma around menopause has to do with another taboo subject, aging. Dr Foran says...

ClassPass makes health and fitness more accessible

Feb 17, 2022

“ClassPass has been able to create some synergies that really built momentum for the entire industry to grow,” ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia ’05 says. The company partners with fitness studios,...

Cambridge researchers to tackle major threats to 'UK’s vegetable garden' and beloved rural idylls

Feb 17, 2022

The area is the vegetable garden of UK horticulture with 33% of England's fresh vegetables grown here. Alongside salads, key vegetable crops such as carrots, leeks, potatoes, onions and beetroot...

Industry funding potentially compromising gambling addiction research, say experts

Feb 17, 2022

Writing in The Lancet Psychiatry, a group of clinicians and scientists set out their priorities for tackling the pervasive problem of gambling addiction, or ‘gambling disorder’. Gambling disorder is a...

Two faculty members named Sloan Research Fellows

Feb 16, 2022

Two Johns Hopkins faculty are among 118 early-career researchers who received a Sloan Research Fellowship this year. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the fellowship honors early-career science researchers...