Your Personality Shapes How Music Affects Your Focus
The answer to whether listening to music while trying to work will affect your performance isn’t the same for…
Space Travel Can Seriously Change Your Brain
It turns out that spending time in space can change your brain (and you might have to…
The Pandemic and a Free Press
The evidence is fast accumulating that autocrats and aspiring strongmen regard the coronavirus as a unique opportunity…
Rice Genetically Engineered to Resist Heat Waves Can also Produce Up to 20% More Grain
As plants convert sunlight into sugar, their cells are playing with fire. Photosynthesis generates chemical byproducts that…
World Book Day
This April 23, World Book Day is being celebrated by millions of people and over 100 countries…
Engines of Life. Nanotechnology Rebuild Medicine from Within
In the mid-1980s, evidence started to emerge from labs across the world confirming that scientists were finally…
Why Global Reforestation Will Restore the Earth’s Health
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. It arrives during a global health crisis that scientists have…
A Professor of Happiness Explains How to Deal with COVID-19
The global lockdown is taking a toll on mental health, with a recent poll in the US showing…
Corruption Can Have No Place in Our COVID-19 Recovery
Governments, businesses, civil-society organizations and citizens are facing an unprecedented challenge and are asked to be resilient…
How The Internet Of Things Is Transforming 21st-Century Manufacturing
The internet of things (IoT) is transforming how we live and work in the 21st century. Nearly…