Twenty-two women architects and designers you should know
To mark International Women's Day, we asked 22 of the world's most inspirational women architects and designers to nominate another woman who should be better known for their work. Read more To mark International Women's Day, we asked 22 of.....»»
Producing large, clean 2D materials made easy: Just "KISS"
Ever since the discovery of the two-dimensional form of graphite (called graphene) almost twenty years ago, interest in 2D materials and their special physical properties has skyrocketed. Famously, graphene was produced by exfoliating bulk graphite u.....»»
Generation X women experience age in seven ways, study finds
Generation X women experience age in seven different ways according to a new study by Nottingham Business School (NBS), part of Nottingham Trent University......»»
Taiwan IC design houses deepening deployments for ePaper market boom
Taiwan's IC designers including MediaTek and many other peers are all keen to develop diverse chips solutions for ePaper technology applications that are poised to regain fast growth momentum starting in 2024, according to industry sources......»»
Memcyco raises $10 million to deliver real-time brandjacking protection
Memcyco, the real-time website impersonation detection and prevention solution, has completed a $10 million seed round led by Capri Ventures and Venture Guides. Brandjacking is among the most common forms of cyberattacks globally. Twenty percent of c.....»»
How to Close the Gender Health Gap
Women’s health care and outcomes have long come a poor second to those of men. But new initiatives and a wave of healthtech innovators may finally rebalance this......»»
Covid changed the architecture profession forever
The pandemic changed the way architects work, from flattening studio hierarchies to reviving more analog tools. Walking during lockdowns, following protocols and restrictions, city dwellers witnessed the birth of a new architectural aesthetic.Read F.....»»
Power dressing for work is back. Here’s how to do it
Interviewing for your dream job? Pitching a big investor? Doing a TED talk? Three experts share their advice on how women can dress for big professional moments. For a decade-and-a-half, Busayo Olupona worked as a corporate lawyer, wearing the indus.....»»
Organizations must go beyond medical views on menopause to support women"s professional aspirations, says study
Organizations must enable midlife women to thrive in the workplace by taking inspiration from societies such as China and Japan to encourage positive conversations around the impact of menopause, a new study reveals......»»
Engineers create bacteria that can synthesize an unnatural amino acid
In a study recently published in Nature Chemical Biology, researchers focused on para-nitro-L-phenylalanine (pN-Phe), a non-standard amino acid that is neither one of the twenty standard amino acids nor observed in nature. pN-Phe has been used by oth.....»»
Having Their Fallopian Tubes Removed Will Spare a Large Number of Women from Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian cancer is hard to detect and usually deadly. Preemptively removing fallopian tubes during other abdominal surgeries could save hundreds of thousands of lives.....»»
Surprising insights from a global study on perceptions of gender norms
Not long ago, a team of researchers made a startling discovery about attitudes toward women in Saudi Arabia. Most young married men in the country were privately in favor of women working outside of the home but mistakenly believed that a majority of.....»»
Higher unemployment and less income: How domestic violence costs women financially
Women in abusive relationships are more likely to be unemployed and earn less money than women with non-abusive partners......»»
Architecture after COVID: How the pandemic inspired building designers
Walking during lockdowns, following protocols and restrictions, city dwellers witnessed the birth of a new architectural aesthetic......»»
Discrimination, crime and suicidal thoughts associated with greater odds of firearm ownership among Black adults
Black adults—particularly Black women—with higher levels of education and experiences of discrimination and crime are more likely to own a firearm, according to a study by the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers......»»
Just 1 in 5 employees in the space industry are women—this lack of diversity is holding us back, say researchers
This week, the Australian Space Summit is celebrating some of our nation's strengths and achievements in the space sector. But it's taking place under the shadow of significant cuts to space technology investment announced in last week's federal budg.....»»
FDA advisers vote unanimously in favor of OTC birth control pills
"We need to trust women." Enlarge (credit: Perrigo) A panel of independent medical experts for the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday in favor of allowing the hormonal birth control pill Opill (n.....»»
Study uncovers toll of economic abuse on rural women
Blocked from pursuing their careers and left without any source of income. Isolated from friends, coworkers and community. Low credit scores or resumé gaps that dog them for years after the abuse......»»
The underrepresentation of women coaches in high-performance sports
In recent years, the popularity of professional women's sports has soared. We've seen the expansion of women's AFL, the creation of the women's Indian Premier League in cricket, as well as things like the 2023 FIFA women's world cup and the 2023 wome.....»»
Research exposes differences between how men and women compete against each other
It is well understood that in the labor market there exist wage gaps between men and women, and in general, women have had to fight to break the "glass ceiling" to get to upper management in the workplace. The causes of the gender gap may be multiple.....»»
Study finds steep 66% drop in party registration with automatic voter registration
In 2016, Oregon became the first state to adopt and implement an automatic voter registration (AVR) system. Now, twenty-two states, plus Washington D.C., have such systems in place. Early research on the impacts of this innovation has shown an increa.....»»