By studying frogs’ eggs, researchers have measured the rate at which cells kill themselves off for an organism’s greater good
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Category: futurism
A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos
I wish the academy would incentivise scholars to improve society, not chase citations. I want us to reimagine a PhD that is designed not to win kudos within the academic community, but rather aimed at discovering something new that will be useful for practitioners and have real social impact.
Too much research is aimed at insular academic circles rather than the real world. Let’s fix this broken system.
Julian Kirchherr
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What’s the speed of death? Scientists have measured how fast one type of cell death strikes
Scientists have measured how quickly the signal to commit form of cellular suicide called apoptosis travels.
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This Colorful New Seahorse Is the Size of a Grain of Rice
Researchers have discovered a tiny new species of pygmy seahorse that inhabits the boulder-strewn coasts of Japan.
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series, Titan RTX and RTX 2080 Performance Rumors
A new rumor has suggested that NVIDIA will be using the new GeForce RTX branding on their upcoming GeForce 20 series graphics card lineup.
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Spinning heat shield for future spacecraft
A University of Manchester PhD student has developed a prototype flexible heat shield for spacecraft that could reduce the cost of space travel and even aid future space missions to Mars.
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NASA picks 13 companies to envision the future of orbital human spaceflight
Thirteen companies, including Boeing and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, will be doing studies for NASA on the future of commercial human spaceflight in low Earth orbit.
All of the studies are due in December, and are supposed to cost no more than $1 million each. NASA still has to negotiate the contract amounts with the study groups, but it expects the total cost of the effort to come in at around $11 million.
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Upcoming Perseid Meteor Shower Will Decorate Sky
Watch this preview of the Perseid Meteror shower that’ll blaze through the sky this weekend.
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