Shining Girls’ Elisabeth Moss’ best TV roles
Elisabeth Moss has cemented herself as one of the best actors on TV, and these are her defining roles......»»
Researchers identify AP2/ERF family and potential members regulating flower development in kiwifruit
The AP2/ERF superfamily is one of the largest transcription factor families in plants and it plays important roles in diverse processes. In a long evolution process, the functions and numbers of AP2/ERF changed dramatically. Flowering is a hot topic.....»»
Climate change supercharges threat from forest-eating bug
Deep in the Finnish woods, the moss and blueberry shrubs hide a deadly threat to the boreal forests that are as important to the planet as the Amazon rainforest......»»
Shining a new light on oil-slick rainbows and other thin-layer physics
When sunlight reflects on an oily puddle of water in a parking lot, it creates a rainbow of swirling colors. That's because of the thin film interference principle, which explains how light reflects off of different layers, or films, in a mixture of.....»»
Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor steps down, leaving Marc Benioff alone at the top
Enterprise tech giant Salesforce said Wednesday that its co-CEO and Vice Chair Bret Taylor will step down from his roles. Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff, who had been co-CEO alongside Taylor, will continue running the company and serving as board.....»»
Image: Hubble Telescope spies sparkling spray of stars in NGC 2660
This glittering group of stars, shining through the darkness like sparks left behind by a firework, is NGC 2660 in the constellation Vela, best viewed in the southern sky. NGC 2660 is an open cluster, a type of star cluster that can contain anywhere.....»»
Sex roles in the animal kingdom driven by the ratio of females to males
How picky should females and males be when they choose a mate? How fiercely should they compete for mates? And how much should they engage in raising their offspring? The answers to these questions largely depend on the ratio of adult females to male.....»»
Is a Diagnostic Test to Blame for Why We Know So Little about Autism in Girls?
A standard diagnostic test may be one reason autism research includes so few female participants.....»»
US students lost decades of progress in math, reading. Could this strategy be the solution?
Joi Mitchell fell into tutoring largely by accident, but in retrospect it all makes sense. The 27-year-old grew up in a family of educators in Chicago. After college, where she majored in business administration, some of her roles involved mentoring.....»»
Shining a new light on the importance of a critical photosynthesis pathway in plants
Photosynthesis is one of the most important chemical reactions, not just for plants but also for the entire world. The impact and thus the importance of photosynthesis can scarcely be underestimated. Thus, it makes sense that science has long been fa.....»»
Immersive Labs helps UK Ministry of Defence identify qualified candidates to fill vital cybersecurity roles
Immersive Labs announced that the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has deployed Immersive Labs Cyber Pro, Crisis Sim, and AppSec solutions to upskill individuals and teams across its organization to confront the latest cyber threats, prove cyber readines.....»»
New study finds that CRISPR/Cas9 leads to unexpected genomic changes
The widely used gene scissor (CRISPR/Cas) can modify the genetic content in cells to study the molecular roles of genes and has gained great clinical relevance in gene therapy to treat genetic diseases. A new study performed by Claudia Kutter's resea.....»»
Twitter"s cybersecurity chief quits amid company turmoil
Twitter's chief information security officer announced their resignation on Thursday, vacating one of the company's most critical roles just as scrutiny is mounting over Twitter's future and the erratic decisions of its new owner, Elon Musk......»»
Alumni from Britain"s top girls" public schools 20 times more likely to reach elite positions
The alumni of 12 leading girls' public schools (Note: "public schools" in UK means "private schools" in the USA) are 20 times more likely to reach the most powerful elite positions in British society than women who attended any other school, accordin.....»»
Shining a light on the dark web
Dark web marketplaces sell a plethora of tools, stolen data, and forged documents, and some of the things for sale are priced higher than the rest. The most expensive records advertised If we only focus on financial, identification and access data, t.....»»
EA’s Project Cars is no more as staff is shuffled to other projects
EA has internally shut down all development on the Project Cars series. All staff impacted will be moved into other appropriate roles 'where we can.'.....»»
The challenge for "chauffeur moms": Navigating a city that wasn"t planned for women
Chauffeur moms are a well-known Australian phenomenon. A lack of convenient transport options coupled with gendered roles has made many suburban women (and their children) car-dependent, whether they like it or not. And, more often than not, the dema.....»»
Carnival Row announces second and final season with briefest of teasers
Travis Beacham's "Victorian neo-noir" fantasy series debuted in 2019. Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne reprise their roles as Philo and Vignette in the second and final season of Carnival Row. Carnival Row, Prime Video's lavish "Vi.....»»
First results from The Pay 100 study reveal salaries at leading UK architecture studios
The Pay 100 has released the first results from its anonymous salary survey of architects in the UK, which highlights differences in salaries for architecture roles at practices including BIG, Adjaye Associates and Foster + Partners. Read more.....»»
IceCube neutrino analysis pegs possible galactic source for cosmic rays
Physicists re-analyzed 10 years of data and found a tantalizing excess of 79 neutrinos. Enlarge / Artist’s representation of a cosmic neutrino source shining above the IceCube Observatory at the South Pole. Beneath the ice are.....»»
Gender diversity reforms have helped UK company boards, but they are failing in other countries—new research
It may take close to 300 years to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, according to a UN progress report on its sustainable development goals (SDG), Gender Snapshot 2022. This is way off the 2030 deadline set when the S.....»»