Sep 26, 2016 | Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Technology
Residents of China’s megacities who post comments about air quality to social media can give environmental scientists a window into pollution levels there. A multidisciplinary study by Rice University researchers showed that the frequency of key words like dust,...
Sep 26, 2016 | Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology
Elementary school science teaches us that in the sun, dark colors get hot while white stays cool. Now new research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found an exception: Scientists have determined that certain dark pigments can stay just as...
Sep 26, 2016 | Brain & Behavior, Health
A happy spouse may actually make you healthier, according to a large new study led by a Michigan State University scholar. Analyzing 1,981 married couples in the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative survey, the researchers found that people with...
Sep 26, 2016 | Brain & Behavior
It’s impossible to predict the next startup that will make the Fortune 500 list, but James Brown can say with certainty that it won’t happen without an infusion of risk capital. The value of risk capital is often overlooked or forgotten in debates about financial...
Sep 26, 2016 | Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake that rattled residents and damaged buildings in East Texas in 2012 was triggered by the injection of large volumes of wastewater from oil and gas activities into rocks deep beneath the surface, a new satellite study by Stanford scientists...
Sep 26, 2016 | Brain & Behavior, Health
t might surprise you to learn that your cranium is not one continuous smooth bone encasing your brain. It’s actually comprised of eight bones, separated by fibrous joints, to give your skull flexibility. That’s the reason babies have “soft spots” and your brain was...
Sep 26, 2016 | Brain & Behavior, Technology
During an intense U.S. presidential campaign, millions of people are chatting about the election every day on Twitter. MIT is studying them. More precisely, the Laboratory for Social Machines, part of the MIT Media Lab, has launched a project called the Electome that...
