The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary New data from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) show a surge in applications but little growth…
Who is afraid of quantum mechanics? Books in brief Summary Andrew Robinson rounds up five short book picks that touch on science, society and the oddities of modern life. The…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Summary PhD student Rashna Kumar, under an Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship, mapped routes to government websites…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary In 2012 a part-time DBA (“Derek”) looked after two MySQL instances — one in Boston…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary ESA’s Solar Orbiter has traced superfast electrons back to their sources on the Sun, separating Solar Energetic Electron…
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Summary Tech billionaire Larry Ellison is funding a £118 million programme at the University of Oxford to apply AI to…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has publicly criticised Universal Music Group (UMG) after receiving a flurry…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of false active‑shooter reports targeted about a dozen US universities as students returned to campus. The incidents…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers in Japan asked 28 women to wear a specific rose-scented oil on their clothing for one month…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Brian Kernighan, co-creator of Unix, said his one-off attempt to write a Rust programme was a painful experience. He found…
