Researchers from the University of Oxford and Cornell University have measured how ranking workers affects later levels of performance.
Economics & Business
Mar 24, 2016
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A software program that ranks supercomputers on their ability to solve complex problems rather than on raw speed alone continues to gain traction in the high-performance computing community.
Hardware
Dec 23, 2015
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First-borns are responsible, middle children are people pleasers and the youngest are attention seekers, we often hear. But scientists have failed to find any real evidence for a link between birth order and personality.
Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2015
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Bonding with a friend of a friend is something most humans gravitate toward naturally, or at least Facebook likes to think so every time it suggests friends for you to "friend."
Plants & Animals
May 15, 2015
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Microsoft said Thursday its Bing search engine would be reconfigured to give more prominence to "mobile-friendly" websites, an acknowledgment of the growing importance of smartphones and other mobile devices.
Internet
May 14, 2015
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Parents, students and admissions officials have combed through college and university rankings for years. However, education researchers have largely ignored the controversial lists. That's about to change, according to a ...
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2015
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The US Apple and Google brands which have become household names around the globe are worth more than $100 billion each, and top a ranking of the world's biggest brands, consultancy Interbrand said on Thursday.
Business
Oct 9, 2014
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Life at opposite ends of primate social hierarchies is linked to specific brain networks, a new Oxford University study has shown.
Plants & Animals
Sep 2, 2014
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Several high-profile security breaches have, of late, got many people wondering about their passwords.
Security
Jun 3, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Back in the early 2000s, Ed Feng was a Ph.D. student at Stanford studying chemical engineering. At the time, he never thought that his research on the dynamics of liquids using statistical physics would one ...
