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Abstracts for NCS-workshop due 12/2

Jan 28, 2022

Abstracts for NCS-workshop due 12/2Nordic Civil Societies is hosting a workshop on ‘A Nordic Worldview? Such questions will be addressed in the workshop hosted by the project Nordic Civil Socities,...

Honours for exceptional people in our community

Jan 28, 2022

Two women at the top of their games in science, two philanthropists, a tireless advocate for people with intellectual disabilities and the late physicist Professor John Love are among those...

Sunflowers’ invisible colours help them attract bees and adapt to drought

Jan 28, 2022

Sunflowers’ invisible colours help them attract bees and adapt to drought Science, Health & TechnologyIt turns out sunflowers are more than just a pretty face: the ultraviolet colours of their...

Vaccine development requires super-fast computing power

Jan 27, 2022

This requires fast computing power and reliable mathematical models. If there’s a discrepancy, we can say almost with certainty that our result is right and that the errors are in...

Study: COVID-19 rapid tests highly accurate for children and adolescents

Jan 27, 2022

The study researchers feel these results suggest that rapid antigen testing can be confidently used to screen for children and adolescents who are infected but not showing symptoms. "Based on...

Crypto collapse erases more than $1 trillion in wealth, forcing a reckoning for everyday investors

Jan 27, 2022

We’ve seen it before,” said Burke, co-founder and chief marketing officer of Portal, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform incorporated in Delaware. White House officials plan to release as soon as...

Alexis Battle and Sarah Hörst receive President's Frontier Awards

Jan 27, 2022

Two Johns Hopkins faculty members have received the university's prestigious President's Frontier Award, which recognizes exceptional scholars who are on the cusp of transforming their respective fields. During the presentation,...

National Identity Predicts Support for Public Health Measures During Coronavirus Pandemic

Jan 27, 2022

Analysis of 67 Countries Shows Those Who Identify More Strongly with Their Nation Report Greater Engagement with Public Health Behaviors and Support for Public Health PoliciesIdentification with one’s nation predicts...

Merging design, tech, and cognitive science

Jan 27, 2022

The experience taught Iwasaki she was more creative than she had realized, and that she loved the progression of the design process, from ideation to fabrication. She became excited to...

TESS Science Office at MIT hits milestone of 5,000 exoplanet candidates

Jan 26, 2022

The catalog of planet candidates found with NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) recently passed 5,000 TOIs, or TESS Objects of Interest. I’m excited to see thousands more in the...