Discussions with a few research scholars made me realise the knowledge gaps and lack of training for managing references & citations, which is a vital part of academic writing. One of them even described the...
The study, the first of three parts of the Pilotproject Grundeinkommen (Basic Income Pilot Project), will provide 122 participants with €1,200 ($1,420) a month for a period of three years. Participants did not have to...
Are experiments on humans unethical? Well, would you take medicine that had only been tested on mice? Judith Hartl says her problem is with the corporate sponsorship of tests sold to the public as scientific...
Harsh Vardhan, minister of science and technology, has approved a proposal that the National Research and Development Corporation should develop an Intellectual Property Exchange. The idea is appealing. The patent office receives thousands of applications...
Facts on brain drain are either hard to find or old. But one thing remains clear: those who can travel will do so to expand their professional horizons. The question is whether they return and...
In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) states that, given certain conditions (large sample size), the arithmetic mean of a sufficiently large number of iterates of independent random variables, each with a well-defined expected value (mean) and finite variance, will be approximately normally distributed,...
Astha, a management trainee, entered her apartment after a long day in the hope of drowning her stress under the shower. She had recently shifted into her current dwelling place courtesy her new job. Facing...
Bioelectronic medicine is embryonic. But British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline and US tech firm Alphabet see its potential. With one eye on research and another on your data, they will jointly invest millions. Look around the web...
How important are EU funds for British research institutions? Even though Great Britain pays more into the EU than it gets out of it, one exception is in the field of science. The reason: Great...
It’s a tale of many sides. Most often we only get the positives of digitalization, while those speaking for the negative are hauled off to a padded cell. But a Berlin summit wants us all...
Eugene Fama, Robert J. Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen dare to predict the future. Now they were awarded the Nobel Prize for their research on how to predict shares and index developments. “This years’ prize...
You blow your nose in a tissue and the tissue indicates you’ve got the flu. Sounds like science fiction? Stuff like this always does. But German researchers are designing a “lab in a hankie.” It’s...
