L ike young women today, 50 years ago I too assumed that gender discrimination in science was a thing of the past. Girls who grew up in America in the Sputnik era, as I did, were encouraged to become scientists. By 1964, when I graduated from college with a major in biology, I thought it entirely possible I’d win a Nobel prize. Why not? Dorothy Hodgkin won one that year. At Harvard, my professo...

This paper investigates whether the Japanese people were happy and unhappy with the general election conducted on September 11, 2005, in which the Prime Minister, Koizumi, won a landslide victory. We conducted a large survey just after the election to ask people how happy they were and which party they had supported. Although there are consistent tendencies that supporters of ruling parties wer...

Having already survived an attempted ousting, Jean-Claude Juncker, the new European Commission President only took office on November 1, 2014, together with his college of Commissioners representing each member state [1]. Having previously won the direct backing of Members of the European Parliament to lead the Commission, he was forced to face down this first challenge before even having the o...

The aims of this study were to 1) directly compare the performances of a professional soccer team over three seasons, 2) identify key variables that discriminated between a successful or unsuccessful performance, and 3) identify variables that best predicted success. ANOVA revealed that attempted and completed passes were significantly lower (both p < 0.001) in the most successful season (S1). ...

What is life? Many have asked this question, and no definitive answer is yet widely accepted. Is life something truly distinct from non-living stuff, as many dualists have suggested for millennia? Is there an élan vital that distinguishes living from dead stuff? Or is life about certain types of organization, metabolism, reproduction, goal-oriented behavior? None of these answers have yet won t...

The UT Austin Villa team, from the University of Texas at Austin, won the 2017 RoboCup 3D Simulation League, winning all 23 games that the team played. During the course of the competition the team scored 171 goals without conceding any. Additionally, the team won the RoboCup 3D Simulation League technical challenge by winning each of a series of three league challenges: free, passing and scori...

People physically distance themselves from competitors and the disliked, and cooperate less with those who are further away. We examine whether social interaction can also impact the space people perceive between themselves and others by measuring the influence of competitive dynamics on visual perception. In 2 experiments, participants played a ball toss game until they reached a target score....

Professor Yuan Jin from Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center (ZOC) affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University has recently won the "Grand Challenge 2015 Young Scientist" award in "2015 Innovation Challenge Annual Meeting" held in Beijing. The meeting is organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People Republic of China (MOST), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the United States and the...

BACKGROUND Although the incidence of football injuries should relate to team success there is little empirical evidence. OBJECTIVE We investigated the relationship between injury incidence and team success in Qatar first-division football clubs. METHODS Using a prospective cohort study design, we captured exposure and injuries in Qatar male elite football for a season. Club performance was ...