Science & Technology
Clever pupils don’t need to attend academically selective schools to thrive, study finds
New findings challenge the idea that academically selective schools are necessary for clever pupils to achieve good outcomes.
Cool roofs are best at beating cities’ heat
Painting roofs white or covering them with a reflective coating would be more effective at cooling cities like London than vegetation-covered ‘green roofs,’ street-level vegetation or solar panels, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
Cuts to processed meat intake bring a range of health benefits
Reducing consumption of processed meat by around one-third could prevent more than 350,000 cases of diabetes in the US over 10 years.
Deep machine-learning speeds assessment of fruit fly heart aging and disease, a model for human disease
Drosophila — known as fruit flies — are a valuable model for human heart pathophysiology, including cardiac aging and cardiomyopathy. However, a choke point in evaluating fruit fly hearts is the need for human intervention to measure the heart at mom…