Investor memories of past performance are distorted, research finds. And that’s a problem

The problem with this, according to a paper just published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, is that these inaccurate memories about past returns fuel expectations about future market performance ...
The Lancet

Fitsum Tadesse: shaping malaria research in sub-Saharan Africa

Over the last one and a half decades we have seen malaria incidence, morbidity, and mortality decreasing. Ethiopia was ...
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Getting to the Bottom of Your Problem: How to Use the 5 Whys

Asking “Why?” may be a favorite technique of your 3-year-old child in driving you crazy, but it could teach you a valuable ...

New Australian research could help boost wheat and rice yields, cut water, nitrogen use

Australian research creates nanoscale structures to enhance photosynthesis, potentially increasing crop yields while reducing ...
Frontiers

‘Built for cutting flesh, not resisting acidity’: sharks may be losing deadly teeth to ocean acidification

Blacktip Reef Shark at Sealife Oberhausen, where teeth used in the study were collected. Credit: Max Baum. A leading cause of a declining pH value in the world’s oceans is human CO2 emission. As more ...