A team of graduate students from KTH Royal Institute of Technology went to the Stockholm suburb of Kista last year to find out what 13- to 15-year-old boys think about books. Of the 38 boys they interviewed, only five said they had ever read a full book on their own—aside from the autobiography of Sweden’s … Continue reading “Pod offers immersion amid distractions”
Like the Duracell Bunny, the four Cluster spacecraft that ESA sent into space 15 years ago have continued working long after anyone expected them to. And in its extended lifespan, the mission has paid dividends. Over the last decade, transmissions of data from Cluster enabled a scientist at KTH Royal Institute of Technology to make … Continue reading “The space mission that keeps on going, and going …”
Physics researcher Egor Babaev speaks from experience when he tells his students that rejection can sometimes be taken as a form of compliment. His most influential paper, published in 2003 on the subject of superconductivity, was initially turned down by a number of journals on the grounds that its conclusions couldn’t be possible in principle. It … Continue reading “In science, rejection can be a compliment”
When she suffered a massive brain hemorrhage in 1996, Harvard-trained neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor became her own experimental subject. The mystical experience she describes as her brain’s language center “went offline” has become the subject of a best-selling book and one of the most watched TED Talks ever. On the Thursday webcast of Crosstalks, she … Continue reading “Brain scientist studies herself after stroke”
Watch this video in which Mathias Uhlén takes us through the progress of genomics and proteomics toward an understanding of human biology. The Human Genome Project was an extraordinary milestone for science, but there’s a lot more work to be done in order to understand how the body works. Mathias Uhlén, professor of microbiology and … Continue reading “Unlocking the secrets of disease”
