How AI alters middle managers’ work

How AI alters middle managers’ work

Credit: Journal of Service Research (2023). DOI: 10.1177/10946705231220462 The introduction of artificial intelligence is a significant part of the digital transformation bringing challenges and changes to the job descriptions among management. A study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland shows that integrating artificial intelligence systems into service teams increases demands imposed on middle management … Read more

Wildflowers increasingly doing without insect pollinators

Wildflowers increasingly doing without insect pollinators

Field pansies from a ‘resurrected’ lineage monitored during this study. Credit: © Samson Acoca-Pidolle Scientists at the CNRS and the University of Montpellier have discovered that flowering plants growing in farmland are increasingly doing without insect pollinators. As reproduction becomes more difficult for them in an environment depleted of pollinating insects, the plants are evolving … Read more

Why string theory requires extra dimensions

Why string theory requires extra dimensions

Superstrings may exist in 11 dimensions at once. Credit: National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong nuclear force. Eventually another theory, one based on particles called quarks and force carriers called gluons, would supplant it, but in the deep mathematical bones … Read more

Australia’s ‘carbon budget’ assessment reveals astonishing boom and bust cycles

Australia’s ‘carbon budget’ assessment reveals astonishing boom and bust cycles

by Yohanna Villalobos, Benjamin Smith, Pep Canadell and Peter Briggs, The Conversation Australia’s Carbon Budget 2010-2019. A product of the National Environmental Science Program – Climate Systems Hub; and a contribution to the Global Carbon Project – Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes-2. Credit: NESP-2 If you really want to know how much Australia contributes … Read more