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We're a semantic technology company that instantly delivers deep insights from the world's data. Since 2009, we've amassed the world's deepest and most interconnected knowledge graph, encompassing 500 collections, 1 billion entities, 250 bi...

Author discusses new book on the relationship between th... and the erosion of faculty rights.

Her findings:
Men and women who are solo authors of most of their pape ...
When men co-author papers, each such paper is associated ...

emberlight: turn any light into a smart-light

Slow Dance makes things move in ways you never thought possible. For all those who love mystery, beauty, and wonder.

Global growth keeps slowing down. ... Sometimes an article will discuss how to kick the economy back into gear. All this takes as given that the economy’s ultimate purpose is growth. But does it need to be?

Lytro lets you take pictures like never before. Unlike a... camera that captures a single plane of light, the Lytro ... entire light field, which is all the light traveling in ... every point in space.

There are two missions of this site. The first is to mak... public the highest quality and most reliable historical ... economic aggregates, with particular emphasis on nominal... measures, as well as real (constant-price) measures. The... here on the

MySkyStatus™ is a tool that allows travelers on any ai... connected with friends, family and colleagues on the gro... automatically sending status updates to social networks ... Twitter and LinkedIn, or through email, all while you’...

There is immense concern about economic inequality, both... scholarly community and in the general public, and many ... equality is an important social goal. However, when peop... the ideal distribution of wealth in their country, they ... unequal soc

But does peer review `work' at all? A systematic review ... available evidence on peer review concluded that `the pr... review is based on faith in its effects, rather than on ... answer to the question on whether peer review works depe... `What is pe

Empathy is the feeling relationship in which the physician understands the patient’s plight as if the physician were the patient. The physician identifies with the patient and at the same time maintains a distance. Empathetic communicatio...

But keyboards may have an impact on the emotional associations we have with words as well. It has been found that words consisting of a higher proportion of letters from the right-hand side of a QWERTY keyboard – those from “y”, “h⮮.

During operations in Gaza in mid-May, the Israel Defense... a swarm of small drones to locate, identify and attack H... This is thought to be the first time a drone swarm has b...

it is possible to prompt CoPilot to suggest copyrighted ... computer game Quake III Arena, complete with comments fr... programmer. This code cannot be reused without permission.

Nieder thinks that consciousness probably emerged separa... occasions, in much the same way that wings appeared sepa... birds and bats.

THE assumption that Black people have a lower level of c... than white people was, until recently, built into a form... National Football League to settle head injury lawsuits.

Mr. Williams knew that he had not committed the crime in question. What he could not have known, as he sat in the interrogation room, is that his case may be the first known account of an American being wrongfully arrested based on a flawed...

The redistribution effects on households of direct and i... and benefits received in cash or kind analysed by househ... changing levels of income inequality over time.

Students are Astonishingly Similar in Learning Rate.
Whereas initial knowledge varies substantially across students, we found learning rate to be astonishingly similar across students.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303145733.htm

Globally, renewables account for about one third of elec... generation—and that share is rising.

The idea that writing should be clear, concise, and low-... new one—and it isn’t limited to government agencies,... problem of needlessly complex writing—sometimes referr... “opaque writing style”—has been explored in fields... to science.

During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we o... steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared b... couple.

Have you found yourself checking email at dinner, or ski... screen, unable to focus? The closer the world gets to ou... more we stand to lose

Mitchell is the second contributor to the Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project, for which 1,000 trees were planted two years ago in Oslo’s Nordmarka forest. Starting with Margaret Atwood, who last year handed over the...