Studies and Analyses

innovations-report maintains a wealth of in-depth studies and analyses from a variety of subject areas including business and finance, medicine and pharmacology, ecology and the environment, energy, communications and media, transportation, work, family and leisure.

Climate study finds evidence of global shift in the 1980s

Scientists say that a major step change, or ‘regime shift’, in the Earth’s biophysical systems, from the upper atmosphere to the depths of the ocean and from…

Network analysis shows systemic risk in mineral markets

Shortages of natural resources—minerals such as copper, aluminum, and mercury—could lead to cascading shocks and lead to instabilities in the global trade…

NIST study of Colorado wildfire shows actions can change outcomes

“WUI fires are very different from earthquakes, hurricanes and tornados where the hazard cannot be controlled,” said NIST fire researcher and principal…

Learning in your sleep – the right way

You can’t learn new things in your sleep. Nevertheless, if you’ve been learning vocabulary in a foreign language, it can be highly effective to hear these…

Up to 27 seconds of inattention after talking to your car or smartphone

If you think it is okay to talk to your car infotainment system or smartphone while driving or even when stopped at a red light, think again. It takes up to 27…

A study of 377,000 sheds light on the role played by the genome in eczema

Atopic dermatitis, a type of eczema, afflicts approximately one out of every five children and one out of every twelve adults. Though knowledge of the genome…

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