Neurons communicate with each other via electrical impulses, which are produced by ion channels that control the flow of ions such as potassium and sodium. In a surprising new finding, MIT neuroscientists have shown that human neurons have a much … Read more
The way the inspections are done has changed little as well. Historically, checking the condition of electrical infrastructure has been the responsibility of men walking the line. When they’re lucky and there’s an access road, line workers use bucket trucks. … Read more
[Posted October 12, 2021 by corbet] A group of researchers at Trinity College in Dublin has released the results of a study into the data collected by a number of Android variants. There are few surprises here, but the picture … Read more
Google’s Android operating system is a privacy nightmare, a new study of cellphone data collection finds. Yet it turns out Apple’s iOS is a privacy nightmare too. “Both iOS and Google Android share data with Apple/Google on average every 4.5 … Read more
Space out your study sessions As noted above, it’s better to distribute the time you have available to study over a greater number of shorter sessions than it is to cram your studying into a single marathon session. In thinking … Read more
Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash What is it about? Research on SQL, a query language for relational databases, has shown that its users make many mistakes, making them inefficient. The first step to … Read more
Researchers at UBC’s faculty of medicine and BC Cancer Research Institute have uncovered a weakness in a key enzyme that solid tumour cancer cells rely on to adapt and survive when oxygen levels are low. The findings, published today in … Read more
Aug 20th 2021 IF YOU WRITE a book called “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty”, the last thing you want to be associated with is fraud. Yet this is where Dan Ariely, a behavioural economist at Duke University, finds himself, along … Read more
BuzzFeed News A landmark study that endorsed a simple way to curb cheating is going to be retracted nearly a decade later after a group of scientists found that it relied on faked data. According to the 2012 paper, when … Read more
A new study from Yale University has found that common social media features like “sharing” and “likes” are unintentionally training users to act outraged online, the reason being that other users are more likely to engage with posts that are … Read more