What Chandra’s reappointment means for Tata Sons
“A safe pair of hands”. That’s how Tata Group veterans describe Natarajan Chandrasekaran, who has just been reappointed for a second five-year term as chairman...
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ProQR shares plummet as eye disease treatment flops phase 2/3 pediatric trial
ProQR’s treatment for a congenital eye disease in children failed to improve vision and mobility, a tough pill to swallow that Wall Street spat back...
Canned cocktails are so big, they’ve made it to the Super Bowl
The commercial, an homage to/parody of Apple’s “Here’s to the crazy ones” campaign, is a love letter to the “lazy” ones: People who walk their...
Researchers make non-alcoholic beer taste like regular beer
Some people find the taste to be flat and watery and this has a natural explanation, according to Sotirios Kampranis, a Professor at the University...
This bizarre looking helmet can create better brain scans: A newly designed wearable magnetic metamaterial could help make MRI scans crisper, faster, and cheaper
It may look like a bizarre bike helmet, or a piece of equipment found in Doc Brown’s lab in Back to the Future, yet this...
First evidence indicating dinosaur respiratory infection
A group of researchers from around the country, including University of New Mexico Research Assistant Professor Ewan Wolff, discovered the first evidence of a unique...
Endangered delicacy: Tropical sea cucumbers in trouble
Overharvest has put the Great Barrier Reef’s tropical sea cucumber populations in peril, researchers have revealed, with strong demand for this delicacy from East and...
New species of marine plankton discovered, an overlooked source of nutrients in the oceans
A team of University of Hawai’i at Manoa researchers in the Department of Oceanography’s Center for Microbial Oceanography — Research and Education (C-MORE), along with...
Robots that can check your blood pressure
Empowering small, humanoid-sensing robots to take a patient’s blood pressure — using only a simple touch — is Simon Fraser University researcher Woo Soo Kim’s...
Writing is not present in all ‘complex’ societies, but it can signal inequality: Mesoamerican societies with more elaborate writing systems tended to have less shared power
For more than a century written language was seen by anthropologists and other social scientists as a definitional feature of societal complexity or “advancement” (a...