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'Extreme Altruists' Are Motivated By Gut Instinct

'Extreme Altruists' Are Motivated By Gut Instinct

Oct 16 2014 | comment(s)


Intuitive processes may underlie decisions of those who help others while risking their own lives. Credit: AAresTT/Shutterstock

By Penny Orbell, The Conversation

If you noticed a person in grave danger would you act first and think later in order to save them? New research suggests people who put their own lives in danger to help others make the decision to do so without a second thought.

Why We Should Make Time For Remembering The Future

Why We Should Make Time For Remembering The Future

Oct 16 2014 | comment(s)

Pope Sets Off A 'Gay Earthquake'? No, The Church Has Hardly Moved

Pope Sets Off A 'Gay Earthquake'? No, The Church Has Hardly Moved

Oct 16 2014 | comment(s)


The extraordinary synod of bishops on family is meeting for two weeks at the Vatican. Credit: EPA/L'Osservatore Romano

By Timothy Jones, La Trobe University

How Are Nurses Becoming Infected With Ebola?

How Are Nurses Becoming Infected With Ebola?

Oct 16 2014 | comment(s)


Lab scientists working with Ebola use respirators, while surgical masks are deemed adequate for nurses at the front line. Credit: EPA/Anne-Marie Sanderson/DOH 

By C Raina MacIntyre

To Tweet Or Not To Tweet: Academic Freedom And Social Media

To Tweet Or Not To Tweet: Academic Freedom And Social Media

Oct 15 2014 | comment(s)


Should academics be disciplined by their universities for things said over Twitter? Credit: Opensource.com/ Flickr, CC BY-SA

By Janna Thompson, La Trobe University

Academic freedom has been put in the spotlight with two universities recently coming down hard on academics for comments on social media.

Mind The Gender Gap: Why Women Must Still Fight For Equality In Science

Mind The Gender Gap: Why Women Must Still Fight For Equality In Science

Oct 15 2014 | comment(s)


Pulsars were discovered by a woman, Jocelyn Bell. Credit: Wikimedia

By Hazel Hall, Edinburgh Napier University

What was the greatest astronomical discovery of the 20th century?

Some would say pulsars – highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars emitting beams of electromagnetic radiation. The scientific world was informed of these in a paper published by Nature in 1968.