A NASA funded study to understand the benefits of 15-minute power naps has concluded they are surprisingly effective if used correctly. Sleep researcher Karen Gould identified subjects in stressful office environments where complaints about tiredness and…
[Princeton, NJ] A team of concerned scientists – comprising leading computer modellers, informatics experts, and neuroscientists from around the globe – has issued a dire warning that our modern informational infrastructure is likely to be…
[Cambridge, UK] Cosmologist and polymath Clara Durkins is no stranger to difficult problems, whether it’s interpreting the newest findings from the Hubble deep space project or contemplating the latest ill-fitting discovery in the fossil record….
University of Pittsburgh Linguistics Professor Stacey Pinkerton does not believe in fate, but she almost started the day she clicked on the hashtag #HealthyTip and came across this tweet from a pharmacist in Georgia. “I’m…
[13 July, 2015] In a sad day for conservationists, the species known as Emporium Pittsburghus – commonly called the Downtown Pittsburgh Department store – has finally gone extinct. Though the last surviving example – a…
Professor Maria Del Carmen Monrreal Ferreira was only a young graduate student when she moved from her native Argentina to Pittsburgh to pursue her studies in astrophysics, specializing in local conformal space-time disturbances. The exotic…
