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Education

Envy, guilt and inequality: impact on happiness

In a follow-up to an experiment which developed a ‘happiness equation’, new research suggests that our sense of inequality, through guilt and envy, impacts our own happiness.

Searching for the start of life

Why and how did cells first appear? Was this inevitable, or a total fluke? Might this happen elsewhere in the universe?

Award winners know best

'It may be true that award winners know best, and as entries for the Alumni Awards are already open for 2017, we have decided to talk to the winners of 2016.

App to test cultural differences in thinking styles

How do our individual thinking styles evolve and change? Aided by a downloadable app, a new study explores the different values and frames of thinking around the world

Artificial intelligence helps identify cancer cells

Using machine learning, researchers have developed a method to identify cancer cells which may help speed up medical diagnoses

A new drone with flexible, bat-inspired wings

Scientists at Southampton and Imperial have completely reframed the design problem of drones by looking to the flight capabilities of bats

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Facial expressions, cultural difference, empathy

New research suggests that not only are there four basic emotions expressed through the face, but that how these emotions are interpreted depends on cultural background.

Sharing insight about childhood trauma from around the world

Professor Panos Vostanis has developed a new internet platform WACIT – World Awareness for Children in Trauma – as a resource for sharing knowledge and best practices in supporting children

Citizen science to monitor pollution with iPhones

Aerosols and pollutants have an increasingly damaging impact on health, the environment and the economy.

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