The rewards of corporate leadership accrue faster for men. Not only do women hold just one in nine of the executive and board positions in California's top 400 public companies, an annual University of California, Davis, ...
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2014
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I love my job. I'm trying to understand how plants build themselves out of thin air. It's exciting, it's creative, it's beautiful and on top of all that it's important and useful. I like working with other people with different ...
Other
Dec 5, 2014
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World Soil Day (Dec 5, 2014) concludes a week-long series of events in Dijon bringing together international scientists. The results of the European EcoFINDERS project, coordinated by INRA, were revealed for the occasion. ...
Environment
Dec 5, 2014
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An ICT research EU project is producing visual and touch apps to help people with Down's syndrome become more independent in their daily lives.
Software
Dec 5, 2014
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A single wafer-level LED chip that produces more than 150 Watts of light output has been made in work form China. This level of output from a single chip makes applications for LEDs in high power lighting from stadiums to ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Dec 5, 2014
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One year on from the biggest UK storm surge for 60 years, new aerial photos have revealed details of breaches to the natural and man-made coastal defences on part of the East Anglian coastline.
Environment
Dec 5, 2014
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(Phys.org) —While the Higgs boson may be the most famous elusive particle in particle physics, a lesser known particle that has continued to elude even the most powerful high-energy experiments to date is the glueball, ...
Cloud computing and Big Data are the two top innovation hubs in ICT. Together they have the potential to become pivotal enhancers of social transformation and economic development for many years to come.
Computer Sciences
Dec 5, 2014
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Big Data comes naturally to science. Every year, scientists in every field, from astronomy to zoology, make tremendous leaps in their ability to generate valuable data.
Computer Sciences
Dec 5, 2014
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Scientists since Albert Einstein have believed that when major galactic events like supernova explosions or black hole mergers occur in the universe, they leave a trace. That trace, it is believed, takes the form of gravitational ...
General Physics
Dec 5, 2014
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