Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots' billionaire owner, recently made headlines when he was charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution. The women involved were undocumented Chinese immigrants who were human trafficking ...
Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2019
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Researchers at the University of Liverpool have built an intelligent mobile robot scientist that can work 24-7, carrying out experiments by itself.
Materials Science
Jul 8, 2020
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One of the most controversial hypotheses for the origin of the human language faculty is the evolutionary conjecture that language arose instantaneously in humans through a single gene mutation. `
Evolution
Feb 12, 2020
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The five largest publicly listed oil and gas majors have spent $1 billion since the 2015 Paris climate deal on public relations or lobbying that is "overwhelmingly in conflict" with the landmark accord's goals, a watchdog ...
Environment
Mar 22, 2019
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A*STAR has built a testbed for digital twins, the virtual counterparts of real manufacturing equipment. These factory innovations could help companies save huge amounts of time and money by predicting and adjusting for their ...
Engineering
Feb 4, 2019
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Is it possible to make a femtosecond laser entirely out of glass? That's the rabbit hole that Yves Bellouard, head of EPFL's Galatea Laboratory, went down after years of spending hours—and hours—aligning femtosecond lasers ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 26, 2023
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Scientific breakthroughs can happen in the strangest ways and places. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin because of mold growing on a Petri dish left out while he was on holiday. Chinese monks in the 9th century wanted ...
Archaeology
Oct 18, 2022
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Color-image based systems are excellent at locating people in aerial search and rescue operations, but fall short when it comes to discerning between actual human skin and objects with similar hues. To remedy this, researchers ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 10, 2015
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Researchers have used AI to control beams for the next generation of smaller, cheaper accelerators for research, medical and industrial applications.
Plasma Physics
Dec 11, 2020
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A tiny crack in a nuclear reactor, skyscraper, bridge or dam can cause catastrophic consequences. The Minneapolis bridge collapse, which killed 13 people in 2007, is just one example of what can happen when structural integrity ...
Engineering
Jun 7, 2019
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