Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has informed our understanding of gravity for more than 100 years. During this time, it has also been subject to...
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No one predicted the dramatic and sudden shift in the world of work that happened in March of 2020 when COVID shut down offices and the U.S. experienced the...
Uncontrollable muscle spasms or other symptoms caused by a sudden rush of electrical activity in the brain – epilepsy impacts around 50 million people...
The future price of housing is important not just for citizens trying to plan their lives, but also for banks, the construction sector and society as such...
In late March 2020, Roshan Ragel, head of the national research and education network of Sri Lanka (LEARN), received a call from a senior government official...
A partnership between the national research and education networks of Singapore and Finland will strengthen the use of supercomputers to find treatments and...
Drug delivery is the art of bringing medicine to where it is most effective inside the body. This is especially important in cancer therapy, as anti-cancer...
Supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the world’s shared plan to end extreme poverty, reduce inequality, and protect the planet by 2030...
Despite vast scientific efforts over many decades, prediction of earthquakes remains highly challenging. Now, a collaboration between universities and other...
Universities all over the world are compelled to use ever more resources in order to assure, that applicants for vacant positions actually have obtained the...
With online commerce on a steep rise, the potential for luring customers through false online shops is also growing. Now, however, Switzerland’s national...
How do COVID-19 measures affect our wellbeing? And how will a persons’ emotional status influence to which degree he or she complies with government...
The collapse of the famous Arecibo Observatory Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico on December 1, 2020, was a great loss for science. Still, things could have been...
Understanding how stars create and destroy elements as they evolve helps us understand the origin of the material that makes up galaxies, planets such Earth...
In Switzerland, nearly 60% of the electricity stems from clean and sustainable hydropower. Researchers at ETH Zurich’s Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and...
More than 5000 historically and culturally valuable items are in the list of the cultural heritage of Belarus. One of them is the Radziwills Library of Nesvizh...
If greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced, the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica could together contribute about 40 centimetres of global sea level rise...
How do artists play music together in times of a crisis like COVID-19? How do they teach, run courses, collaborate, rehearse, and perform during lockdowns all...
Words: Yasmeen Al-Kouz, ASREN Over 1.5 billion children and youth around the world have been affected by school closures due to the COVID-19 outbreak. To...
To most of us, climate change effects like rising sea levels, shrinking Arctic ice, and more frequent extreme weather events are abstract phenomena. We see...