Sales of smart home devices have skyrocketed in the past 12 months. According to a February 2020 research and market study, these devices supported by Google Assistant alone increased 1,900% from around 1,500 to 30,000 during the period January 2018 to May 2019. Now, as people incorporate smart shows in their daily lives for education,… Read More »
UK research is second only to the United States in its share of citations in the biomedical and environmental sciences. Over the past decade, the support of successive Labor governments has seen spending on university research nearly double. But now the boom period is over. Over the next few weeks, the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition… Read More »
In May 1997, a pair of Brazilian scientists spent a weekend in the country discussing a bold idea. Jose Fernando Pérez, science director of the So Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), a state-funded agency and one of Brazil’s major research sponsors, was looking for game-changing research initiatives. Biologist Fernando Renach, one of his advisors, had a… Read More »