Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study has revealed that employees who are more mindful in the digital workplace are better protected against stress, anxiety and overload. Researchers from the University of Nottingham’s Schools of Psychology and Medicine analyzed survey data from 142 employees. The results have been published in PLOS ONE. Ph.D. student Elizabeth … Read more
Schematic diagram of an acoustofluidic chip for shape-based separation. a A schematic diagram of the proposed acoustofluidic device. b Top-view of the midstream microchannel. c Cross-sectional view of the midstream microchannel. d A rigid ellipsoid modeled system exposed to incident plane progressive waves. Credit: Microsystems & Nanoengineering (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41378-023-00636-7 Thanks to the rapid progress … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New York City Mayor Eric Adams came in for criticism in early 2022 for suggesting that low-paid workers such as restaurant and retail staff were low-skilled and did not “have the academic skills to sit in the corner office.“ A Singapore Management University researcher, Assistant Professor of Marketing Shilpa Madan, says … Read more
Jorge Fresneda (left) and a student demonstrate an EEG headset. Credit: NJIT Machines still can’t think, but now they can validate your feelings, based on new research from New Jersey Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Jorge Fresneda. Fresneda started his career as a chemist and then became an expert in neuroanalytics. He studies how measurements … Read more
Average SOC stock Mg ha-1 across soil horizons and volumetric stone content (%) classes for the combined I-SIS, HSP and SQUARE datasets. Credit: Geoderma Regional (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.geodrs.2024.e00769 Researchers from Teagasc have published an article in Geoderma Regional highlighting the consequences of not measuring soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in Irish grassland soils precisely. Quantifying … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many people object to intelligence tests. Some say IQ test scores are too often abused. They says it’s unfair that when children “fail” these tests it can mean they receive a worse secondary education than their more successful peers—sentencing them to a lifetime of disadvantage. Some object to IQ tests for … Read more
The full NGTS lightcurve for NGTS-28AB with the transit positions marked by the red dashed lines. Credit: Henderson et al, 2024 While analyzing the data from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new brown dwarf. The newfound object, designated NGTS-28Ab, orbits its host star in just about … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In its fight against invasive aquatic plants in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the California State Parks’ Division of Boating and Waterways says it will begin a regiment of herbicide treatments that will last through the end of 2024. Agency officials announced that workers will start work on the Delta and … Read more
Neither human-induced climate change nor the El Nino weather phenomenon were determining factors in the devastating forest fires that killed more than 130 people in Chile this month, according to the results of an international study revealed Thursday. Improper land use had a bigger impact, it found, with the expansion in recent decades of pine … Read more
Tailoring morphology symmetry of BiVO4 photocatalyst from octahedral to truncated octahedral crystals leads to the quite different separation of photogenerated charges and a significantly improved charge separation efficiency. The built-in electric field for driving photogenerated charge separation is considered to be modulated by tuning the morphology symmetry. Credit: Science China Press In a study published … Read more
