Previous analyses of the hominins from Sima de los Huesos in 2013 showed that their…
Category: Science
Playing dumb and giving the cold shoulder: How stereotypes pervade the workplace
A new study shows that managers play down their competence to appear warmer to their…
What incentives work best to get a team to exercise more?
Does it help to reward people if you want them to exercise more? Yes, but…
Detecting radioactive material from a remote distance
Although Barot did not build the bombs, national security experts believe terrorists continue to be…
Sharkskin actually increases drag
To clarify sharkskin’s ability to reduce hydrodynamic drag (academically contested for the past 30 years),…
Scratching the surface: Real-time monitoring of surface changes at the atomic level
Scientists have developed a technique that allows them to follow physical processes occurring at surfaces…
Misleading p-values showing up more often in biomedical journal articles
A review of p-values in the biomedical literature from 1990 to 2015 shows that these…
A rolling stone gathers no mates
Papa might not have been a rolling stone, according to a new study that examined…
Similarities in fruit fly nervous systems transform view of metamorphosis
New research transforms the current view that metamorphosis in fruit flies, whereby larvae change into…
In cubosomes it’s their interior that counts
Under certain conditions appropriately selected particles can form closed surfaces in liquids with surprisingly complex…