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Social Sciences Mar 8, 2024

Too much heat in the kitchen: Survey shows toxic work conditions mean many chefs are getting out

Chefs are in hot demand. "Chefs, chefs, chefs! Virtually impossible to find anyone," lamented one Auckland restaurant owner recently. Australia is seeing a similar gap, with chefs ranked the eighth most in-demand occupation. ...

Environment Aug 12, 2022

The US is making a big down payment on climate change. Here's what needs to come next

With the U.S. House expected to pass the most consequential climate change legislation in the nation's history on Friday, environmentalists and advocates are chilling the champagne for a surprise victory.

Optics & Photonics Jun 11, 2020

A breakthrough in developing multi-watt terahertz lasers

Terahertz lasers could soon have their moment. Emitting radiation that sits somewhere between microwaves and infrared light along the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz lasers have been the focus of intense study due to ...

Evolution Apr 23, 2020

Anti-oxidative enzymes are important for the longevity of the corpus luteum in lynx

Another piece of the puzzle about the longevity of the corpus luteum in lynxes has been uncovered. Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) and the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology ...

Space Exploration May 21, 2019

Rocket man: LSU Mechanical Engineering alumnus Max Faget remembered 50 years after moon landing

Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong is rightfully remembered for taking man's first steps on the moon nearly 50 years ago on June 20, 1969. Less well known, perhaps, is LSU Mechanical Engineering alumnus Maxime "Max" Faget, ...

Cell & Microbiology Aug 29, 2017

New member of NAS reveals how animals select good microbes, reject harmful ones

Margaret McFall-Ngai, professor and director of the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, is the only woman at UH who is a member of ...

Mathematics Feb 20, 2017

Mathematics is beautiful (no, really)

For many people, memories of maths lessons at school are anything but pretty. Yet "beautiful" is a word that I and other mathematicians often use to describe our subject. How on earth can maths be beautiful – and does it ...

Engineering Jan 13, 2016

Wireless monitoring of newborns

An Italian SME has developed a wearable monitoring system for babies as they go through the sensitive period of the first two to four hours of life. The technology, whose market potential has been assessed with funding under ...

Hi Tech & Innovation Nov 25, 2014

For Google's self-driving cars, learning to deal with the bizarre is essential

In 700,000 miles of navigating roads, Google's self-driving cars have encountered just about everything - including an elderly woman in a motorized wheelchair flailing a broom at a duck she was chasing around the street.

Engineering Jan 7, 2014

French company demos driverless shuttle at CES

French company Induct on Monday showed off the first driverless vehicle to be commercially available in the U.S.

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