RFID specialist SAG to tap 5G opportunities
Taiwan-based RFID specialist Securitag Assembly Group (SAG) expects the commercialization of 5G networks will be instrumental in boosting sales of its products, including RFID labels and tags, according to company president Chiang Hung-yu......»»
Live talk at noon Thursday: The opportunities and challenges of hydrogen fuel cells
Guests Jackie Birdsall of Toyota and Bernd Heid of McKinsey will discuss the future of hydrogen fuel and take questions......»»
Children with SEND deserve authentic inclusion in the foreign languages classroom, report warns
Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities should be given equal opportunities to learn languages, a new report argues......»»
Researchers: Urbanization amplifies climate change through increased soil emissions
Increasing populations and the search for social and economic opportunities are driving people to move from rural to urban areas. Approximately four percent of the global area is urbanized and half of the world's population lives in urban areas. Natu.....»»
Guidemaster: RFID-blocker cards and wallets to help keep your cards secure
Gear to help protect information from your ID, credit cards, and debit cards. Enlarge / Wallet solutions to prevent RFID card skimming. (credit: Chuong Nguyen) When we think of banking security, we often think of using s.....»»
Despite opportunities to cheat, unsupervised online exams gauge student learning comparably to in-person exams
Students don't have to be supervised during online exams. That's because unsupervised online exams can accurately assess student learning, according to our study published in July 2023 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences......»»
Environmental human DNA offers new opportunities for public good
In May, University of Florida scientists announced that they had unearthed high-quality, information-rich human DNA from nearly every spot they could think of. Rivers, beaches, oceans—even vacuumed up from the air......»»
Scientists invent new resorbable biomaterials for implantable medical devices
What if we had tiny devices in our bodies that could constantly monitor damaged arteries, accelerate bone regeneration and wound healing, or facilitate drug delivery for cancer treatment? This could open up remarkable opportunities for the treatment.....»»
App-based tool quantifies pesticide toxicity in watersheds, identifies mitigation opportunities
Pesticides are a leading source of chemical hazards in aquatic environments. A study published in PLOS Water by Nicol Parker and Arturo A Keller at University of California, Santa Barbara, and colleagues introduces a new tool to help evaluate toxicit.....»»
Jeanette Epps will finally go to space six years after being pulled from flight
NASA removed Epps from her first crew assignment in 2018 without explanation. Enlarge / Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, astronaut Michael Barrett, commander Matthew Dominick, and mission specialist Jeanette Epps make up th.....»»
Women Experience Greater Burdens from Extreme Heat
Women in the U.S., India and Nigeria are losing money, economic opportunities and their health as temperatures rise.....»»
New research reveals historic migration"s link to present-day implicit racial bias
Roughly six million Black people moved away from the American South during the Great Migration between 1910 and 1970, hoping to escape racial violence and discrimination while pursuing economic and educational opportunities. Now, research has uncover.....»»
IT peer advice may diminish the management labor pool
It is only natural that when students consider career options, they ask friends, family, and colleagues in their prospective fields for advice. They may hear about job opportunities, wage expectations, career paths, hiring processes, and more. In the.....»»
Consumers demand more from businesses when it comes to security
Fraudsters are opportunistic criminals and 2022 and the first few months of this year brought opportunities like never before, according to Experian. This volatility perpetuated an unpredictable atmosphere for both businesses and consumers alike. The.....»»
How businesses can shape the (safer) future of social media
New legal standards and systems-level, risk-based governance of youth use of social media are essential for safety and are business opportunities too. New legal standards and systems-level, risk-based governance of youth use of social media are e.....»»
Impinj M800 series RAIN RFID tag chips advance item connectivity for enterprise IoT deployments
Impinj released the Impinj M800 series RAIN RFID tag chips to meet enterprise needs for item connectivity in global IoT deployments. The new M800 series delivers readability in enterprise deployments and offers enhanced tag reliability and manufactur.....»»
Can parents" Disability Insurance boost children"s economic mobility?
New research published in Contemporary Economic Policy indicates that Disability Insurance (DI) may improve economic opportunities for children whose parents have health conditions that limit work......»»
Hammerspace raises $56.7 million to unlock business opportunities hidden in unstructured data
Hammerspace has raised $56.7 million in funding in its first round of institutional investment. The funding round, led by Prosperity7 Ventures, also includes Pier 88 Ventures, ARK Invest, and others. Data has been widely considered to be among the wo.....»»
Click chemistry as a connection tool: Grand opportunities and challenges
Click chemistry could help to synthesize a variety of molecules quickly and reliably by piecing together small units. In particular, it emphasizes the development of new combinatorial chemistry methods based on the synthesis of carbon-heteroatomic bo.....»»
Recent advances in vacuum ultraviolet photochemistry of astrochemically important small molecules
The photodissociation of an isolated molecule from a well-defined initial quantum state provides a lens through which one can investigate how and why chemical reactions occur, and provides numerous opportunities for fruitful, synergistic collaboratio.....»»
Neutron beam measurements reveal shrinking mechanism of microgels in colloids
Researchers at PSI and the University of Barcelona have managed to explain the strange behavior of microgels. Their measurements using neutron beams have pushed this measuring technique to its limits. The results open up opportunities for new applica.....»»