First samples collected from Antarctica’s blood falls
Article Featured Researcher: Jill Mikucki Affiliation: University of Tennessee Knoxville Research Interests: Her main research interests are the interactions between microbes and their environment and how the impact of microbial metabolism is detectable on an ecosystem scale.
Ultrasound treatment restores memory in Alzheimer’s plagued mice
Article Featured Researcher: Jürgen Götz Affiliation: The University of Queensland Research Interests: During the past 15 years, his research has focussed on understanding the role of tau and amyloid-beta, and their interaction, in the aetiology of Alzheimer’s disease.
Metaphors help us read other people’s minds
Article Featured Researcher: Albert Katz Affiliation: University of Montreal Research Interests:
The “meat” of my research life has been the study of two (to me, not unrelated topics): (1) the processing of nonliteral language such as metaphor and irony and (2) memory processes, especially everyday memory such as the recall of events in one’s life. In recent years, the main thrust of my research has been to examine the role of social and cultural factors in the processing of nonliteral language, both online and offline.
Cockroaches have different personalities and characters
Article Featured Researcher: Isaac Planas Affiliation: Universite Libre de Bruxelles Research Interests: The objectives of his research are (i) to quantify and determine the origins and implications of personality at the collective level and (ii) to understand the existing synergies between two decision levels – individual and collective – in the case of collective decision-making and aggregation process.
Electric cars could cut oil imports 40% by 2030
Article Featured Researcher: Philip Summerton Affiliation: University of Cambridge. Research Interests: Philip Summerton is a Director at Cambridge Econometrics who specialises in climate and energy policy and its impact on markets and the wider economy. His role at Cambridge Econometrics it to develop and lead projects that require in depth quantitative analysis of energy-economy interactions across and between all sectors of the economy.
Your smartphone might be making you stupid
Article Featured Researcher: Gordon Pennycook Affiliation: University of Waterloo Research Interests: His research is generally focused on dual-process theories of reasoning and decision-making. He’s also interested in what determines whether an individual will override intuitive “gut feelings” via more analytic or reflective thought processes. I am also interested in the scientific study of religion, morality, political ideology, and creativity.
Neanderthal jewelry was much more sophisticated than previously believed
Article Featured Researcher: David Frayer Affiliation: University of Kansas Research Interests: The evolution of European Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic populations was the early focal point of his work, but now, his work broadened to include topics ranging from Neanderthals to the Pakistani Neolithic to early Homo in Eritrea.
Electric cars could cut oil imports 40% by 2030
Neanderthal jewelry was much more sophisticated than previously believed