Twenty-one businesses that have made outstanding contributions to environmental and social sustainability were honoured with awards at the EBRD’s 2021 Annual Meeting.The awards ceremony was preceded by the launch of the EBRD’s latest Sustainability Report.
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British Reporter — A new class of illusion–“Scintillating Starburst”–underscores the highly constructive nature of visual perception. “Scintillating Starburst” Offers Insights into Visual Processing, New York University notes.
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British Reporter — Post-Brexit free trade deals could lead to unhealthier eating in the UK and more diet-related deaths. But harms could be offset with targeted farming subsidies, now possible because of Brexit, and by making concerns for healthy eating central to
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British Reporter — In a historic milestone for the global astronomy community, scientists and engineers have the go-ahead to build the world’s largest radio telescope network, UKRI notes.
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British Reporter — For the first time, scientists have picked up the ripples in space-time caused by the death spiral of two celestial juggernauts, a neutron star and black hole, UKRI notes. Scientists picked up the reverberations from these two objects using a
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Many vaccinated adults have started going maskless, but most children still cannot. Some states are now fully open. According to University of Pennsylvania, psychologist Caroline Watts offers parents language they can use to talk openly as a family about this newest phase
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The cost of homes is soaring — and so is the cost of the lumber to build them. The price of cars and gas are up sharply, too, as are prices for products ranging from corn to computer chips. Now worries are
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Those with power, such as the wealthy are more likely to blame others for having shortcomings and they are also less troubled by reports of inequality, according to recent research from the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management.
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Higher COVID-19 mortality among Black patients linked to unequal hospital quality The COVID-19 death rate for Black patients would be 10% lower if they had access to the same hospitals as white patients, a new study shows. Researchers from the Perelman School
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In a world increasingly concerned about how technology is harming us—diminishing privacy, exacerbating divisions, perpetuating racial and other forms of bias, and more—a new Harvard laboratory will focus on how technology can best serve people and society.
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