– The Telegraph (English) – Professor Simon Lovestone is an academic lead for Alzheimer’s Research UK’s new Drug Discovery Alliance that spans three of Britain’s top universities. The key to prevention of dementia, he tells Virginia Matthews, is early treatment A simple blood test to predict who will develop […]
– Business Insider Singapore (English) by Drake Baer – Typing is fast. Handwriting is slow. Weirdly, that’s precisely why handwriting is better suited to learning. Take it from research psychologists Pam A. Mueller of Princeton University and Daniel M. Oppenheimer of the University of California, Los Angeles, who did […]
– The Telegraph (English) by Sophie Curtis – Weak passwords are still the plague of the cybersecurity industry, with the most popular passwords of 2014 including “123456”, “password” and “qwerty”, making it easy for hackers to break into accounts and steal data. Now an 11-year-old girl from New York is […]
– Business Insider UK (English) by David Nield – One of the questions you might have been idly wondering as you sat through your most recent flight is why are aeroplane windows always round? Is it a design choice on the part of the airlines? Or is there some scientific […]
– BBC (English) by David Robson – All across the world, women enjoy longer lifespans. David Robson investigates the reasons why, and whether men can do anything about it. As soon as I was born, I was already destined to die earlier than half the babies in my maternity […]
– Good Morning America (English) by Avianne Tan – Two twin strangers from Ireland — who never knew the other existed until two months ago — recently took a DNA test to find out if they were related. The results “absolutely surprised” the both of them, according to Niamh […]
– BBC (English) – Hackers are coming up with ever more ingenious ways to crack your secrets. But with the right tricks, you can learn to outsmart them and protect your privacy. When you go on holiday, you wouldn’t leave your front door open to burglars – yet many […]
– Business Insider USA (English) by Jessica Orwig – When Albert Einstein first predicted that light travels the same speed everywhere in our universe, he essentially stamped a speed limit on it: 670,616,629 miles per hour — fast enough to circle the entire Earth eight times every second. But that’s […]
– The New York Times (English) by Justin Gillis – The issue can be overwhelming. The science is complicated. Predictions about the fate of the planet carry endless caveats and asterisks. We get it. So we’ve put together a list of quick answers to often-asked questions about climate change. […]
– The Telegraph (English) by James Titcomb – Battery problems on your iPhone or Android? Here’s what you need to know about how your battery works Battery life is a perennial problem for smartphone owners. While our handsets have become faster and more powerful over the years, smartphone batteries […]