Can drumming reconnect you to your colleagues?
Companies are having to work extra hard to make their staff feel connected to their organisation......»»
Research group isolates reaction step that describes energetics of catalysis on materials
New research published in Nature Materials from Associate Professor Tanja Cuk and colleagues sheds light on a fundamental chemical reaction—the breaking apart of water to produce a molecular fuel such as hydrogen. Cuk is faculty in the University o.....»»
The best smartphone stocking stuffers for 2021
Get into the holiday spirit with some delightful wee gadget stocking stuffers for friends, family, or esteemed colleagues. We have some suggestions......»»
Raven Software developers walk off the job to protest QA layoffs
Strikers demand 12 laid-off colleagues "must be offered full time positions." Enlarge / Taking the leap. (credit: Activision Blizzard) A group of developers at Call of Duty: Warzone developer Raven Software are walking off the.....»»
Researchers one step closer to optoacoustic endoscopic probe for microsurgery
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have come one step closer to a working optoacoustic endoscopic probe—a device that could slip inside a blood vessel and analyze atherosclerotic plaques by shining laser light on them to make them wobble lik.....»»
How the act of measuring a quantum particle transforms it into an everyday object
The quantum world and our everyday world are very different places. In a publication that appeared as the "Editor's Suggestion" in Physical Review A this week, UvA physicists Jasper van Wezel and Lotte Mertens and their colleagues investigate how the.....»»
Maker (Educator) Spotlight: Emily Burk
Emily Burk brings “big learning” to life for students and colleagues in the high school makerspace she helped found in Anna, TX. The post Maker (Educator) Spotlight: Emily Burk appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers......»»
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick says he would consider stepping down
He didn't seem to get very specific about what it'd take, though. Enlarge / Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. (credit: Flickr / Bobby Kotick) Embattled Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick told colleagues that he would con.....»»
Iodine successfully tested in satellite ion thrusters
A team of researchers from ThrustMe, working with colleagues from Sorbonne Université, has successfully tested the use of iodine as an ionizing agent in an ion-thrusting spacecraft engine. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group de.....»»
Researcher works for diversity and inclusion in sciences, one journal at a time
A University of Rhode Island researcher and colleagues who study invasive species have published a series of articles in the journal Biological Invasions aimed at identifying and addressing concerns about diversity, equity and inclusion in the journa.....»»
New material could be two superconductors in one
MIT physicists and colleagues have demonstrated an exotic form of superconductivity in a new material the team synthesized only about a year ago. Although predicted in the 1960s, until now this type of superconductivity has proven difficult to stabil.....»»
Where does gold come from?—New insights into element synthesis in the universe
How are chemical elements produced in our Universe? Where do heavy elements like gold and uranium come from? Using computer simulations, a research team from the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, together with colleagues fr.....»»
How do NZ"s vaccinated teachers have those hard conversations with their anti-vax colleagues?
The news that all staff members at a small King Country school were still unvaccinated a week out from the government's November 15 mandatory deadline underlines how challenging the weeks ahead might be......»»
Secondary forests restore fresh water sources in degraded landscapes
New research, published in Scientific Reports by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) postdoctoral fellow Karina Chavarria and colleagues, shows that bacterial communities in streams adjacent to young secondary forests recover to resemble t.....»»
Mapping annual wildfire probabilities across California
Researchers have uncovered new insights into the dynamics that underlie the probabilities of wildfire across the state of California. Isaac Park of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and colleagues present their method and findings in the o.....»»
"Raindrops on the roof-technique" reveals new quantum liquid
Koen Bastiaans and his colleagues have discovered a new quantum liquid unlike anything ever seen. They did it by using a technique that can be compared to listening to the sound of raindrops falling on a roof......»»
CO2 reduction and economic growth: Can they go hand-in-hand?
Fearing a trade-off with economic growth, countries feel discouraged to cut their CO2 emissions. But do the two really not go together? Environmental scientist Ranran Wang and her colleagues investigated the relationship between economic growth and C.....»»
Magnetic material 3D-printed from nonmagnetic powder
Scientists from Skoltech and their colleagues have used a 3D printer to fuse two materials in an alloy whose composition continuously changes from one region of the sample to the other, endowing the alloy with gradient magnetic properties. Despite th.....»»
Getting my smart home devices to switch Wi-Fi networks is annoying
If I swap my Wi-Fi network, I don't want to individually reconnect all of the smart devices in my home......»»
Sloshing electrons in a charge density wave
In the latest edition of Physical Review B, UvA Ph.D. candidate Xuanbo Feng (QuSoft and IoP) and colleagues write about their recent experiments on a material that can go from a normal metal state to a more exotic state known as a "charge density wav.....»»
Tackling antimicrobial resistance
Researchers from Newcastle University, and colleagues from Spain, Canada and Egypt, have successfully trialed two new qPCR assays to help detect the presence of transmissible AMR using water and wastewater samples. Publishing their results in the jou.....»»