Tag: life and news
What will the next financial crisis look like – and are...
By Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley
The subprime crisis and the subsequent failure of Lehman Brothers came as such a shock – and the...
Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications
By Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University
We have always been been intrigued by keeping secrets and uncovering the secrets of others, whether that’s childhood...
Why the idea of fair, affordable care in the US is...
By Liz McFall, The Open University
The period of Open Enrollment, the annual window in which eligible Americans can sign up for health insurance under...
How to bring the teen pregnancy rate down
By Colleen McNicholas, Washington University in St Louis
Teen pregnancy is a public health problem in the United States. According to 2010 estimates, girls aged...
Online courses, diets, and going to the gym. The science of...
By David Glance, University of Western Australia
One of the characteristic features of Massive Open Online Courses is the observation that no matter how...
The journey to the other side of absolute zero
By Tapio Simula, Monash University
Absolute zero is the temperature (-273.15C) at which all motion in matter stops and is thought to be unreachable. But...
Direct Action could deliver a useful outcome: carbon trading
By Alan Pears AM, RMIT University
There’s little point in getting too excited just yet about the details of Direct Action and its merits (or...
Mom’s prenatal hardship turns baby’s genes on and off
By Suzanne King, McGill University
In January 1998 five days of freezing rain collapsed the electrical grid of the Canadian province of Québec. The storm...
EXPLORING NATURE
New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
Advik D. Vira, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emily First, Macalester College
The Earth and the Moon may look...
