Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard commencement speech centered around how we can improve life through big projects, equal opportunity, and building both local and global community. He outlined a plan “to create
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Multiscale modeling reveals key events during early atherosclerotic plaque development
Atherosclerosis is a form of vascular disease that can result in heart attacks, strokes and gangrene by causing the thickening of artery walls and then narrowing of the arteries themselves
Extreme Jupiter weather and magnetic fields
The astronomers from the University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, led by the UK science lead for the Juno mission, have led three papers and contributed to four papers in
‘Drastically’ higher resolution to your TV and smartphone
Video screens are made up of hundreds of thousands of pixels that display different colors to form the images. With current technology, each of these pixels contain three subpixels —
Look at Eva, 4 months old and standing
“But with some training, children can stand much sooner than that, even before they’re 4 months old,” says Professor Hermundur Sigmundsson at NTNU’s Department of Psychology. Snorri Magnússon teaches a
IVF babies do not have lower cognitive skills than naturally conceived children
The study published in the journal, Human Reproduction, also shows that parents who undergo such treatments are generally older, more educated and have a higher socio-economic status than parents who
Facebook’s Instant Articles platform to support Google AMP, Apple News
One of the problems publishers face today in making their content more readable on mobile devices is that there are multiple, competing formats available for this purpose. Facebook has Instant Articles,
Brain images reveal roots of kids’ increasing cognitive control
The study reveals that the maturing brain becomes increasingly segregated into distinct network modules for greater efficiency. Indeed, the new evidence shows that the degree to which executive function improves
Ancient DNA evidence shows hunter-gatherers and farmers were intimately linked
“We expected some level of mixing between farmers and hunter-gatherers, given the archaeological evidence for contact among these communities,” says Michael Hofreiter of University of Potsdam in Germany. “However, we
Marmoset monkeys learn to call the same way human infants learn to babble
“We wanted to find out whether the idea that monkeys don’t do any learning during their vocal development is actually true,” says the study’s senior co-author Asif Ghazanfar, a professor
New species of bus-sized fossil marine reptile unearthed in Russia
Spanning more than 135 Ma during the ‘Age of Dinosaurs’, plesiosaur marine reptiles represent one of longest-lived radiations of aquatic tetrapods and certainly the most diverse one. Plesiosaurs possess an
Landscape-scale erosion instabilities in the northern Gabilan Mesa, California
What you can’t see is the few feet of soil that would lie beneath your feet if you were standing on the surface — but it turns out that soil
Increased protection of world’s national animal symbols needed, suggests study
But, how are populations of the planet’s most valued wildlife faring in the 21st century? How well are societies protecting the species they have chosen to embody their ideals and
The birth and death of a tectonic plate
In fact, this region represents the single greatest geophysical hazard to the continental United States; quakes centered here could register as hundreds of times more damaging than even a big
4 ways to vitalise yourself during mid-year
While a prime brings lush flowers and longer days, it can also be one of a some-more severe times of a year. Our plates are full with projects that kicked
