Have you have seen ants this year? In Britain, they were probably black garden ants, known as Lasius niger—Europe's most common ant. One of somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 species, they are the scourge of gardeners—but ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2019
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While most workplaces acknowledge that they need to offer hybrid working, very few have a strategy to implement it to maximize productivity and worker wellbeing.
Economics & Business
Dec 7, 2021
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On the 24th November 2012, a fire in the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh led to the death of at least 112 workers, while the collapse of the Rana Plaza building just five months later killed 1,134 garment workers and ...
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2017
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In the course of experiments to test how well commercial bumblebees pollinate early spring crops, researchers made a surprising discovery: dead wild bumblebee queens in the hives, an average of 10 per nest box.
Ecology
Feb 6, 2023
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As companies debate the impact of large-scale remote work, a new study of over 61,000 Microsoft employees found that working from home causes workers to become more siloed in how they communicate, engage in fewer real-time ...
Social Sciences
Sep 9, 2021
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An innovative robotic system that can clean building exteriors using water jets or give new coats of paint is now ready to serve customers in Singapore.
Robotics
Mar 15, 2017
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A disease linked to poverty and malnutrition that once crippled the crowded slums of 19th-century Britain is on the rise in Scotland, according to data published at the weekend.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 21, 2023
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A pair of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has found evidence that suggests some human facial expressions are universal across cultures. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, Alan ...
Australia Post workers are suffering more dog attacks than before with 1,170 incidents so far this financial year—up 400 on the same time in 2021.
Plants & Animals
May 2, 2022
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The U.S. is—and long has been—a pluralistic society that contains large immigrant communities.
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2023
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