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"Minerva combines the best of a liberal arts and sciences education with cutting-edge technology and the latest research on how people learn for improved student outcomes. This unparalleled academic experience is designed to prepare students to be future leaders and innovators across all disciplines."

"Dass wir Süßigkeiten oder andere Dinge mit Freunden teilen, erscheint uns selbstverständlich. Nicht so bei den Bonobos: Vor die Wahl gestellt, ob sie ihr Futter mit einem bekannten oder einem ihnen unbekannten Artgenossen teilen, entscheiden sie sich meist für den Fremden. Das zeigt ein Experiment US-amerikanischer Forscher mit Bonobos in einem Schutzgebiet in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, über das sie im Fachmagazin "PloS ONE" berichten."

"Ein breites Gesicht mit ausgeprägtem Kinn gilt als besonders männlich. Unbewusst signalisiert es offenbar eine stark von Testosteron geprägte Persönlichkeit. Tatsächlich haben Studien in den letzten Jahren einige Verbindungen zwischen der Gesichtsform und dem Verhalten gefunden. So ergab ein Experiment im Jahr 2012, dass Männer mit maskulinen Gesichtszügen eher zur Untreue neigen. 2011 belegten Michael Haselhuhn und Elaine Wong von der University of California in Riverside, dass Manager mit einem eher breiten Gesicht erfolgreicher sind und ihre Firma profitabler führen."

"Sciencenet - Towards a global search and share engine for all scientific knowledge Modern biological experiments create vast amounts of data which are geographically distributed. These datasets consist of petabytes of raw data and billions of documents. Yet to the best of our knowledge, a search engine technology that searches and crosslinks all different data types in life sciences does not exist."

.. you can use to show the global effects of research paywalls - and to help get access to the research you need. Every time you hit a paywall blocking your research, click the button. Fill out a short form, add your experience to the map along with thousands of others.

"This research provides an understanding of the neural basis for social behavior from the perspective of how we evaluate social experiences and how our social interactions and decisions are motivated. We review research addressing the common neural systems underlying evaluation of social and nonsocial rewards. The human striatum, known to play a key role in reward processing, displays signals related to a broad spectrum of social functioning, including evaluating social rewards, making decisions influenced by social factors, learning about social others, cooperating, competing, and following social norms. WIREs Cogn Sci 2014, 5:61-73. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1266"

"Und selbst im Nachhinein kann ein Spaziergang noch die Kreativität fördern, wie ein weiteres Experiment zeigte: Gingen die Probanden erst spazieren und setzen sich dann zum Test hin, schnitten sie noch fast genauso gut ab als wenn sie direkt dabei gingen. "Vor einem Meeting, in dem Einfallsreichtum gefragt ist, bringt ein Spaziergang fast genauso viel, als wenn man während des Meetings laufen würde", sagt Oppezzo."

"Versuchstiere im Labor können ganz unterschiedlich reagieren, je nachdem ob ein Mann oder eine Frau das Experiment durchführt. Das beeinflusst die Ergebnisse wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen, berichten kanadische Psychologen im Fachjournal „Nature Methods". Demnach erzeugt der Körpergeruch eines Mannes Stressreaktionen und verringert die Schmerzempfindlichkeit von Mäusen und Ratten"

"The best learning experience. That means something different for everyone. Expect more than an old one-size-fits-all LMS. Brightspace is an online teaching and learning platform that's easy, flexible, and smart."

Welcome to the new home for IBM product documentation. Customize IBM Knowledge Center to design the experience that you want with the technology, products, and versions that you use and by creating your own collection of documents. You can also interact with IBM and with your colleagues by sharing through email, LinkedIn, or Twitter or by adding comments to topics.

"The Knowledge Web today is an activity rather than a web site-an expedition in time, space, and technology to map the interior landscape of human thought and experience. Thanks to the work of a team of dedicated volunteers, it will soon be an interactive space on the web where students, teachers, and other knowledge seekers can explore information in a highly interconnected, holistic way that allows for an almost infinite number of paths of exploration among people, places, things, and events."

"The aim of the project is to get acquainted with usually inaccessible laboratory procedures - extraction of various organic substances and study them further, growing bacteria on agar plates, DNA extraction and sequencing, explant cultures, various behavioral studies (see BrmRat ) and even heredity experiments. A lot of this may be simple stuff you do not need a well-equipped lab for - once we understand the principles, we can make our way forward. Goals The goal of this project is mainly to enable access to experimental biology for everyone interested in it"

"Life Science Technologist Pieter van Boheemen works as a project developer for Waag Society's Open Wetlab. Pieter is a Life Science Technologist. In his work he mixes his Genomics degree with lots of experience in IT. He gets his every day inspiration from working with great people, then do cool stuff to maximize everyones motivation and performance"

"THE precursor of life may have learned how to copy itself thanks to simple convection at the bottom of the ocean. Lab experiments reveal how DNA replication could have occurred in tiny pores around undersea vents." "To test this theory, Mast and Braun put these ingredients into tubes 1.5 millimetres long. They used a laser to heat one side of the water and create thermal convection. Sure enough, they found that the DNA doubled every 50 seconds (Physical Review Letters, vol 104, p 188102)."

Two fictitious high-spirited scientists of the institute, passionate surfers, take off to visit the early Universe. Not to do serious research there but to experience the ultimate ride on the plasma waves of the big bang. However, they quickly realize that they would be stuck without their knowledge of the physics of the early Universe.

A proposed experiment using ground-based telescopes, called BigBOSS, may be the most cost-effective way to study and measure the phenomenon called dark energy, which appears to be causing the universe to expand at an accelerating rate.

New research looks at the effects of studying a form of meditation on brain connectivity. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, researchers in China and the University of Oregon describe experiments on 45 students, some of whom were taught a meditation technique known as integrative body-mind training (IBMT). The researchers used brain imaging techniques to examine fibers connecting brain regions before and after training. Students trained in the IBMT approach for 11 hours or more appeared to develop new fibers in a part of the brain that helps a person regulate behavior. Control subjects did not form the new fibers. But what does the presence of those fibers actually mean -- and what is the meditation technique doing? We'll talk about it.

... and this is the experience the lucky candidates are having!

Though an experiment hunting for gravitational waves has yet to find any, its null result helps constrain models of how the universe began.

What do quantum particles do when we're not looking? Probably not what you'd expect.\n\nWhile the mathematical formalism 'behind the scenes' is perfectly well-defined and the predictions by the theory are completely sensible (and rigorously tested), it is often difficult to interpret the mechanism of quantum theory into ideas that make sense relative to everyday experiences.