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Growing Up in New Zealand
Growing Up in New Zealand is one of the world's most comprehensive longitudinal studies of child development, following a cohort of almost 7,000 children born in 2009 and…
Growing more for less
A. For farmers, working out the optimal amount of seed, fertiliser, pesticide and water to scatter on a field can make, or break, the subsequent harvest. Regular laborato…
Health in the Wild
Many animals seem able to treat their illnesses themselves. Humans may have a thing or two to learn from them. For the past decade, Dr Cindy Engel, a lecturer in Environm…
Healthy Buildings, Productive People
A. Have you felt tired at your desk lately? According to new research, some often overlooked environmental factors within buildings - the degree or type of ventilation, a…
History of Tea
The story of tea begins in China. According to legend, in 2737 BC, the Chinese emperor Shen Nung was sitting beneath a tree while his servant boiled drinking water, when …
History of Timekeeping
History of Timekeeping From sundials to atomic clocks — how humanity has measured time with ever-increasing precision, and why it matters A. The measurement of time is on…
How Could Multilingualism Benefit India's Poorest Schoolchildren?
The crowded and bustling streets of Delhi teem with life. Stop to listen and, above the din of rickshaws and buses, you'll hear a multitude of languages, as more than 20 …
How Fair is Fair Trade?
How Fair is Fair Trade? The evidence on whether the fair trade movement is delivering genuine benefits to farmers in the developing world A. The fair trade movement emerg…
How Should Reading Be Taught?
By Keith Rayner and Barbara R Foorman A. Learning to speak is automatic for almost all children, but learning to read requires elaborate instruction and conscious effort.…
How a prehistoric predator took to the skies
A. Pterosaurs existed from the Triassic period, 220 million years ago, to the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, when South America pulled away from Afri…
How do plants talk to each other?
Research shows that plants communicate and interact with each other in surprisingly subtle and sophisticated ways. A In 1983, plant scientists Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwi…
How the Mind Ages
How the Mind Ages he ageing of the human mind is one of the most studied and most misunderstood phenomena in psychology. Popular accounts tend to frame cognitive ageing p…
How to Handle the Sun
A The Sun provides the energy that sustains virtually all life on Earth, but its ultraviolet radiation — the portion of its electromagnetic output with wavelengths shorte…
How to find your way out of a food desert
Ordinary citizens have been using the internet to draw attention to the lack of healthy eating options in inner cities. Over the last few months, a survey has been carrie…
How to find your way out of a food desert
A. Over the last few months, a survey has been carried out of over 200 greengrocers and convenience stores in Crown Heights, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. As rese…
Human instinct: evolutionary psychology at work
A. Charles Darwin, the brilliant anthropologist and creator of the theory of evolution, is not normally associated with the modern business world. Nevertheless, Darwinian…
IELTS Reading Test 110 — Passage 3
A. Ten years ago, Michael Krauss, a professor at the University of Alaska, shocked his colleagues in the discipline of linguistics with his prediction that half the 6,000…
IQ Scores
How they are changing and what the changes mean A. Studies from numerous countries suggest that IQ scores have been rising fast since at least the 1950s – enough to mean …
IQ Scores
A Studies from numerous countries suggest that IQ scores have been rising fast since at least the 1950s — enough to mean that someone with an IQ classed as average at tha…
Ideal Homes
A. The traditional kampung houses of Malaysia do not need air-conditioning. Built on stilts and with steep roofs, they have year-round ventilation. The raised structure e…
Improving Patient Safety
How improved drug packaging could provide some answers to patient safety issues One of the most prominent design issues in pharmacy is that of drug packages and the patie…
Innovation and the Fear of the Unknown
Innovation and the Fear of the Unknown Why large corporations struggle to generate the ideas that sustain their future -- and what they are doing about it A In the recept…
Innovation in Business
Innovation describes the way that we develop new ideas, products and approaches, and it is one of the most vital human endeavours. Over the history of humanity, innovatio…
Insect Decision-Making
Insect Decision-Making What the collective choices of ants, bees and cockroaches reveal about intelligence without a brain A The idea that collective decisions made by la…