The New Science of Building Great Teams
Artwork: Andy Gilmore, Chromatic, 2010, digital drawing
Featuring Alex “Sandy” Pentland
If you were looking for teams to rig for success, a call center would be a good place to start. The skills required for call center work are easy to [...]
Pinki Pramanik’s privacy violated
If of late you have been sickened by the way the West Bengal Police have treated Pinki Pramanik, then think again. The extreme voyeurism exhibited in the leak of her video (that is how she identifies herself) medical ‘screening’ [...]
Innovation at Harvard
This video was developed to celebrate the innovative ideas and solutions that Harvard students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae are working on every day across disciplines and around the globe. It highlights innovation at Harvard today and throughout [...]
Boson boffin ‘a forgotten hero’
SCIENTIST Satyendranath Bose, after whom the Higgs-Boson is named, has not been given his due, India has said
While much of the world was celebrating the international cooperation that led to last week’s breakthrough in identifying the [...]
Algae blooms discovered beneath Arctic ice
A NASA mission to study the tiny algae vital to the ocean’s food chain has turned up a massive amount of phytoplankton where scientists least expected it – under the Arctic ice.
In a project that uses both satellites and on-site [...]
Transit may shine light on enduring mysteries of Venus
Experts want to know what happened to oceans? Why a super-fast atmosphere? And so on
Skywatchers around the world will get a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Venus cross in front of the sun Tuesday. The so-called transit of Venus is more than [...]
ScienceCasts: The 2012 Transit of Venus
NASA’s ScienceCast explains the history and astronomy behind the transit of Venus.
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It won’t happen again until December 2117. On June 5th, 2012, Venus will transit the face of the sun in an [...]
Silicon trick for next-gen memory
Researchers have revealed details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer memory chip.The device is a “memristor”, a long-hypothesised but only recently demonstrated electronic component.A memristor’s [...]
CERN director says LHC will find God Particle by end of the year
The Large Hadron Collider is to be switched off at the end of the year to undergo a major upgrade, but scientists hope to have achieved one of the machine’s major goals by the time it does – proving the existence of the so called God [...]
Arctic melt releasing ancient gas
Many of the sites were bubbling methane that has been stored for millennia. Scientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is bubbling into the atmosphere.The methane has been [...]
