The George Daniels' Educational Trust has made an extraordinary donation of £1.2 million to support engineering students from disadvantaged backgrounds at City St George’s, University of London.

This remarkable gift aims to champion social mobility by funding bursaries that will transform lives and provide new opportunities for those facing financial challenges.

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A new study led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute examined the effects of a January 2019 Medicare opioid safety policy aimed at reducing high-risk opioid prescribing and related harms among these beneficiaries.

Though the policy was associated with immediate reductions in initial prescription duration and concurrent multiple-prescriber high-dosage episodes, these reductions decreased over time, highlighting the need for further interventions to address clinical and social risk factors of opioid misuse.

In our digital times as we are inundated with YouTube videos, memes and social media, satire is everywhere, but it can be more damaging to people's reputations than direct criticism, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. 

In swarm research, a new method makes it possible to track the eye movements of fish automatically, non-invasively and in 3D. Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "Collective Behaviour" and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz explain why this is important for understanding the "rules of the swarm".

Workaholism is an inner pressure to working, that provides a sense of fulfilment but might have negative consequences

They stress the need for organisations to rethink workplace cultures, especially in bottom-line-driven sectors.