Four professors at IMD business school, Penn State, and Erlangen-Nuremberg University have collaborated on a study that finds that chief executives who are serious narcissists perform better than more normal top bosses.

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Android's data scrambling system was good for end users but a "nightmare" for law enforcement and forensics workers, the team at Erlangen's Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) wrote in a blogpost about their work.

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Working in the Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Freiburg in the 1970s and 1980s, he first hypothesised that papilloma viruses, which cause skin warts, are also the cause of cervical tumours, and then gathered evidence to prove the point.

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