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Little Crashes Could Protect Stock Market
EMBARGOED UNTIL WEDNESDAY 7 AUGUST 2002 19:00 BST UK CONTACT - Claire Bowles, New Scientist Press Office, London: Tel: +44(0)20 7331 2751 or email claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk WALL STREET`S sneezing fit continues, and the rest of the world can`t shake off its cold. Could the answer be to "immunise" the... view more (2002-08-07)

Electronic Markets Win Out Over Traditional Dealing
Trading through dealers on the London Stock Exchange could be obsolete in less than three years, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. A study led by Dr Nir Vulkan of the Sa'-d Business School and Worcester College, University of Oxford, investigated where... view more (2003-05-15)

Why youth hostel showers are like the stock market
Diversity keeps you warm. At least that is true while you're having a shower in youth hostels. If you like, this sums up the research project just published by scientists from the Universities of Fribourg and Bonn. Their result is not as trivial as it sounds. Ultimately it shows that heterogeneity... view more (2008-02-12)

Stock Market Swings Help Researchers Understand Extreme Events in Solar Wind
Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have applied data analysis methods used to model stock market fluctuations, to explore changes in the solar wind (the sun's expanding atmosphere). They have discovered that the fluctuations in the solar wind follow the same kinds of patterns seen in the... view more (2002-07-25)

ICES advises zero catch on more cod stocks
This Friday, scientists from ICES will release a report giving more strong advice to the European Commission and governments to reduce fishing pressure. In particular, cod stocks in the Kattegat, eastern Baltic and Norwegian coastal cod are all depleted and being overfished and ICES will advise... view more (2004-06-08)

Chemistry & Industry Issue 1 - Cover Date Monday 7 January 2002
From Issue 1 2002 Chemistry & Industry has a new look and updated contents, including the launch of the C&I stock price indices. Based on the price of shares in 22 blue chip chemicals companies in Europe and North America, the value of the portfolio has been normalized to 100 and we await... view more (2002-01-02)

Reducing CEOs' option-based compensation decreases risky investments
Since the recent bailout on Wall Street, the public has started to heavily scrutinize firms' large executive pay packages.   view more (2008-10-23)

Active labor market programs reduced contracted mobility
The probability of moving house to take a job outside one's own home region decreased after participation in labor market programs in Sweden. This is shown in a report from IFAU (Institute for Labor Market Policy Evaluation) titled "Employment, mobility, and active labor market programs,"... view more (2003-02-21)

1990s labor market policies led to lower unemployment but also fewer jobs in Sweden
An active labor market policy of the sort pursued by Sweden in the 1990s is no “miracle cure” for unemployment. This is shown in a report from IFAU (Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation) authored by Lars Calmfors, Anders Forslund, and Maria Hemström. The report, titled... view more (2002-06-26)

Telecommunications industry urged to move with the times
TELECOMMUNICATIONS companies worldwide must make "fundamental adjustments" to their business models if they are to survive in the complex and highly competitive new economy, according to new research by the Universities of Newcastle and Strathclyde, UK. A research paper published in a special issue... view more (2002-10-11)

Scottish SMEs missing out on £20 billion of hidden assets
Scottish businesses are sitting on around £20 billion of assets that they that they may not know they have, says Iain Russell of the Intellectual Assets Centre.   view more (2005-04-27)

Carnegie Mellon professors question advice for nuclear attacks
In the current Fox television adventure series, "24," a terrorist explodes a small nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. In the May 2007 issue of the journal Health Physics, Carnegie Mellon researchers Keith Florig and Baruch Fischhoff offer simple, practical advice that ordinary citizens can use... view more (2007-04-11)

Who needs environmental monitoring?
We monitor the stock market, the weather, our blood pressure. Yet environmental monitoring is often criticized as being unscientific, expensive, and wasteful.   view more (2007-06-08)

Knowing our history is best way to gauge benefits of technology
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the most innovative British engineers in history.   view more (2006-03-21)

Winter Flounder On The Fast Track To Recovery
Winter flounder - sold in markets as flounder or lemon sole - in the Gulf of Maine went into serious decline in the 1980s, taking with it a major commercial and recreational fishery.   view more (2007-04-17)

Karolinska brings in MSEK 100 to new type of investment company
In order to develop promising innovations in the seeding phase, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden is bringing in MSEK 100 for a new type of investment company, Karolinska Development. Via Karolinska Innovations AB, the Karolinska Institutet (KI) pursues active seeding and start-up financing with the... view more (2003-06-27)

Women's biological clock revealed: Hormone may predict age at menopause
Age at menopause may now be predicted more realistically according to a new study accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).    view more (2008-04-29)

More market less poverty, but also more sustainable land use?
During empirical research in Benin, Dutch-sponsored researcher Esa√Ře Gandonou demonstrated that farmers in underdeveloped parts of developing countries make little extra effort to control soil erosion if the market to which they sell their products becomes more accessible.   view more (2006-02-16)

Free Electricity Market Could Lead To Power Shortages
Because the free electricity market in its current form does not lead to sufficient investments in power plants, the price of electricity could become very high and a shortages could occur.   view more (2004-06-22)

First datasets for national biomass and carbon dataset now available
Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center working to produce the "National Biomass and Carbon Dataset" for the year 2000 (NBCD2000) are releasing data from nine project mapping zones.   view more (2008-02-15)

The Statin Wars: Why AstraZeneca Must Retreat (p 1341)
On Thursday 23 October, AstraZeneca, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, will announce its third-quarter financial results. This coincides with a robust editorial in this week's issue of THE LANCET which calls into question AstraZeneca's high-profile marketing of rosuvastatin, a... view more (2003-10-22)

The ecological carton for 2005
ISURPAK has announced that it will have the first packaging machine for its ecological carton by the middle of 2005. The first prototype is to be developed by a consortium in which the engineering group IDOM is participating. This first machine will be able to fill 25 packs per minute -... view more (2004-09-08)

Financial risk-taking behavior is associated with higher testosterone levels
Higher levels of testosterone are correlated with financial risk-taking behavior, according to a new study in which men's testosterone levels were assessed before participation in an investment game. The findings help to shed light on the evolutionary function and biological origins of risk taking.   view more (2008-09-30)

New Study on Effects of Disclosing Financial Interests on Participation in Medical Research
Knowing how an investigator is paid for running a research study surprisingly plays a small role in patients' willingness to take part in clinical trials. However, according to a new Johns Hopkins University study more participants are troubled when they are told that the investigator could profit... view more (2008-10-06)

Competition Policy Should Make It Easier For Consumers To Switch Suppliers
Competition policy is traditionally concerned with regulating firms: controlling mergers, price rigging and so on. But as new research by University of Warwick Economist Professor Michael Waterson shows, policy should equally be concerned with making it easier for consumers to switch suppliers, so... view more (2003-04-07)
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