Tag: life & news
Crowdsourcing competitions often hijacked: study
By Charis Palmer, The Conversation
Crowdsourcing competitions, popular with companies seeking to tap into groups of knowledge, are often diminished by malicious behaviour, according to...
Turkey is paying for decades of divisive politics as it fights...
By Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University
When armed conflict becomes a fact of everyday life, and generations grow up knowing nothing else, imagining life in a...
‘Cloud first’ sounds like a breeze, but it’s not always smooth...
By Dan Jerker B. Svantesson
The Australian government’s all about the cloud, with the Attorney-General and Ministers for Finance and Communications announcing their “cloud first”...
Six wearables and apps to improve health and happiness
By Sue Thomas, Bournemouth University
The age of the wearable is fast upon us, and many of the new products we’re going to see in...
How myths and tabloids feed on anomalies in science
By Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University
UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do we actually mean by research and how does it help inform our understanding of...
Supplies of rare earth materials are still far from secure
By Raimund Bleischwitz, University College London
Materials essential for technology products such as electric vehicles, wind turbines or hard disks, known as rare earth elements,...
How trade agreements are locking in a broken patent system
By Hazel Moir, Australian National University
Ten years on from the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement, Australia is entering another round of negotiations towards the new...
Will the true voice on climate change please stand up?
By Toby Miller, Cardiff University
Who should political leaders follow when it comes to climate change: environmental scientists, powerful corporations, or a million marchers? Sometimes...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
