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Nearly $4 Million in Grants Awarded by Yahoo Employee Foundation (YEF)

By Guest PostOctober 25, 2016Technologyemmy negrin, employee foundation, philanthropy, Yahoo, yef

Largest-Ever YEF Grant Cycle Will Support 110 Organizations Around the World

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Yahoo Employee Foundation (YEF), an employee-funded, philanthropic organization, today announced its largest-ever grant cycle of nearly $4 million. Every year, donations from Yahoo employees, plus interest from investments, are awarded to eligible organizations through YEF grants. YEF is funding 77% of the grant applications it received in 2016, and the funds will benefit 110 nonprofit organizations around the world. (more…)

UW project highlights liability of internet ‘intermediaries’ in developing countries

By Guest PostOctober 25, 2016Technologyanna bakhmetyeva, blogs, developing countries, internet intermediaries, liability, online use, websites

How much liability do website owners and other online service providers have for content posted by other people? If someone posts content on your website that is defamatory, constitutes hate speech, disseminates child pornography or invades someone’s privacy, are you liable? (more…)

Kern des Knalls

By Guest PostOctober 24, 2016Sciencebohrkerne, chicxulub, geologe, kern des knalls, marum, meeresboden, michael poelchau, thomas kenkmann, zentrum

Forscher entnehmen Proben aus einem Einschlagkrater, der vor 66 Millionen Jahren die Welt veränderte

Vor 66 Millionen Jahren knallte ein Gesteinsbrocken mit einem Durchmesser von 15 Kilometer auf die Erde und veränderte die Welt nachhaltig: Nach dem Asteroideneinschlag starben etwa 75 Prozent aller Tiere und Pflanzen aus – so lautet die Theorie, die den Untergang der Dinosaurier und das Aufblühen der Säugetiere erklärt. Ein internationales Team von Forscherinnen und Forschern reiste im Sommer 2016 zum Chicxulub, dem 180 Kilometer großen Einschlagskrater in der mexikanischen Yucatán-Region. Dr. Michael Poelchau, Geologe an der Universität Freiburg, war bei der Expedition mit an Bord. Nun untersucht das Team die Gesteine, die aus einer Tiefe von 500 bis 1.335 Meter unter dem Meeresboden herausgebohrt worden sind. Die Forscher wollen im Detail die Entstehungsprozesse des Kraters verstehen, der so gewaltige Auswirkungen auf die damalige Flora und Fauna hatte.

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Trading changes how brain processes selling decisions

By Guest PostOctober 24, 2016Economy, Jobsali hortacsu, brain, ebay, experienced traders, john list, market experience, process, ryan lawler, selling decisions, trading changes

Market experience leaves people less susceptible to economic bias, study finds

Experience in trading changes how the human brain evaluates the sale of goods, muting a well-established economic bias known as the endowment effect, according to researchers at the University of Chicago. (more…)

Why do aged muscles heal slowly?

By Guest PostOctober 23, 2016Healthaged muscles, muscle aging, muscle fibers, muscle regeneration, muscle stem cells

As we age, the function and regenerative abilities of skeletal muscles deteriorate, which means it is difficult for the elderly to recover from injury or surgery. New work from Carnegie’s Michelle Rozo, Liangji Li, and Chen-Ming Fan demonstrates that a protein called b1-integrin is crucial for muscle regeneration. Their findings, published by Nature Medicine, provide a promising target for therapeutic intervention to combat muscle aging or disease. (more…)

Wie kommt denn dieser Hüpfer hier her?

By Guest PostOctober 23, 2016Natureantaxius pedestris, atlantische bergschrecke, carsten renker, deutschland, entomart, fluechtling, ludwigshafen, maria sturm, menschen

Deutscher Erstfund der Atlantischen Bergschrecke

Die Atlantische Bergschrecke lebt vor allem in den zentral- und westeuropäischen Alpen von Südfrankreich über die Schweiz bis nach Österreich und Tirol. Man würde sie nicht unbedingt im städtischen Raum fernab des Gebirges erwarten. (more…)

Scientists Glimpse Inner Workings of Atomically Thin Transistors

By Guest PostOctober 23, 2016Science2d transistors, atomically thin transistors, deji akinwande, inner workings, keji lai, molybdenum disulfide, rudresh ghosh, tech gadgetry, xiaoyu wu

AUSTIN, Texas — With an eye to the next generation of tech gadgetry, a team of physicists at The University of Texas at Austin has had the first-ever glimpse into what happens inside an atomically thin semiconductor device. In doing so, they discovered that an essential function for computing may be possible within a space so small that it’s effectively one-dimensional. (more…)

Meet ‘Adonis,’ Europe’s Oldest Known Living Tree

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2016Natureadonis, annual rings, bosnian pine, Europe, oldest living tree, rings of trees

UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research scientists participated in an expedition that revealed its age: nearly 1,100 years.

A Bosnian pine living in the highlands of Greece has been shown to be more than 1,075 years, making it the oldest known living tree in Europe. (more…)

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