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Shinobu Kobayashi is a Japanese woodworker based in Australia, currently studying Scandinavian techniques in Sweden. The three-continent background appears to have done him well; working in concert with a master cabinetmaker from Denmark, Kobayashi manage

There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to

Britons in particular have an attitude problem to address as well.
"People easily say, 'I'm terrible at maths,' or 'I'm awful at numbers.' If you said that kind of thing in India people would look at you funny," she said.
"It's like saying, 'Oh, I can't

The lesson for management teams at other unicorns is cle... Forget worrying about whether you're going to be around ... refocus on making products that people want that will ma...

More than half of the findings from 100 different studie... leading, peer-reviewed psychology journals cannot be rep... researchers who followed the same methodological protocol.
A study by more than 270 researchers from around the wor ...

A town council in Germany has decided the best way of im...
From September 12, all traffic controls will disappear f ...
In an area used by 13,500 cars every day, drivers and pe ...
"Traffic will no longer be dominant," he said.
The idea of removing sign

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Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific... in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these... frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertain... can think of them as academic urban legends. The explana... phenomenon

These technologies, BCI and CBI, can be combined to real... non-invasive, computer-mediated brain-to-brain (B2B) com... subjects (hyperinteraction).

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The UK is full of rude place names. The North-West has a... a Pincock, while Yorkshire is arguably worse, boasting a...

14 August 2015
From the section Glasgow & West Scotland
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The mystery designer of a Lego replica of a CalMac ferry ...
Luke Ball, who now lives in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, des ...

Although many scientific ideas generate conflicting resu... falling effect sizes, they continue to get cited in the ... standard medical practice. Why? Because these ideas seem... make sense. Because we can’t bear to let them go. And ... decline eff

The launch of the clinicaltrials.gov registry in 2000 se... striking impact on reported trial results, according to ... that many researchers have been talking about online in ...
A 1997 US law mandated the registry’s creation, requir ...

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Fossils found in some of London's most famous landmarks ... to life with the help of a north Wales technology company.
Llandudno-based Livetech are behind a website detailing ...