The World Cultural Council will present the 2014 ALBERT EINSTEIN World Award of Science to Professor Sir Philip Cohen and the JOSE VASCONCELOS World Award of Education to Professor Federico Rosei on the occasion of the 31st Award Ceremony, which will take place on Monday 17th November within the framework of the Aalto University Academic Summit on "The Impact of Universities on Economic Growth", Espoo, Finland. For further details please visit: http://wcc.aalto.fi/en/.

FAPESP announces the SPRINT -- Sao Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration, a strategy designed to encourage and promote the advancement of scientific research through the engagement of researchers affiliated with research institutions in the Brazilian State of Sao Paulo with researcher partners abroad.

An unprecedented research conducted by a group of neuroscientists has demonstrated that it is possible to train brain patterns associated with empathic feelings. Volunteers who received neurofeedback about their own brain activity patterns whilst being scanned inside a functional magnetic resonance machine were able to increase empathic brain states. These findings could open new possibilities for treatment of clinical situations, such as antisocial personality disorder and postpartum depression.

A new study published ahead of print in The FASEB Journal shows that heparin interactions with the terminal domains of a prion protein impair its conversion into scrapie prion, preventing its aggregation in the brain.

A new study demonstrates that lotto numbers follow a predicted pattern and provides a step-by-step guide on how to improve your chances of winning the lottery jackpot.