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September 6, 2015
Image of the Week: Wearable analytics
Google’s Life Sciences division announced that diabetes would be the first major disease target in their bid to bring new technology to the management of an increasingly common condition. With Google being a powerhouse for analytics, the company appears to be using their know-how to develop smarter ways to quantify disease progression. One of their developing … Read more
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September 3, 2015
Want to get published? Shorten your title
A recent study by The Royal Society‘s publishing division showed an association between paper citation and title length. The results of an analysis of over 20 000 papers over seven years showed that for each year papers with the shortest titles received the most citations. “These results are consistent with the intriguing hypothesis that papers … Read more
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July 31, 2015
2022 Olympics in China
Congratulations to our friends and colleagues in China. Beijing has won its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. This makes Beijing the first city in history to host both the summer and winter Olympics. The team advocating for the Chinese capital says that it hopes the winter games will spur greater interest in snow … Read more
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July 26, 2015
Hairy Ice Explained
It sprouts on dead wood at night in northern latitudes and disappears when the sun rises. Its micro-thin fibers look like the curls on a baby’s head. What scientists have called “one of the most exciting types of ice,” hair ice has now been replicated in the lab with the help of a certain fungus … Read more