A plane passes in front of the moon, Aug. 30, 2023, in Chicago. Scientists have confirmed a cave on the moon, not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago this week, and suspect there are hundreds more that could house future astronauts. Credit: AP /Kiichiro Sato, file Scientists have confirmed … Read more
Researchers digitized the skulls of 431 dogs, cats and wild relatives. The database can be used for educational and research purposes. Credit: Kálmán Czeibert The ELTE Eötvös Loránd University is home to the skulls of more than 150 dog breeds and other animals. To make this unique collection accessible to all, researchers digitized the skulls … Read more
In this photo provided by the Department of Conservation rangers Jim Fyfe and Tūmai Cassidy walk alongside what is believed to be a rare spade-toothed whale, on July 5, 2024, after its was found washed ashore on a beach near Otago, New Zealand. Credit: Department of Conservation via AP Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Britain, prepare for deep depression: Storms ruin tea. A new study reveals that Storm Ciaran cut an invisible path of mayhem across southern Britain last autumn, destroying any possibility that 20 million people could have a proper cup of tea at breakfast. The storm’s record-breaking low pressure meant the boiling point … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain International employees constitute almost 5% of the global workforce. A recent study by Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) revealed the under-researched areas in international employees’ adjustment and proposed a future research agenda. According to the team of researchers from Lithuania and Germany, who analyzed 222 scientific articles on the adjustment of … Read more
Artist’s illustration of brown dwarfs surrounding the Milky Way. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva One could argue that brown dwarfs don’t get the love they deserve. Sometimes referred to as “failed stars,” they don’t have enough mass to sustain nuclear fusion, which powers all stars, including our sun. But they are also too big to be … Read more
Strategic business model choices and a typology of social business models. Credit: Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1002/sej.1502 Ventures that pursue both commercial and social value creation have grown in popularity in recent years, but a study published in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal better defines four distinct types of social ventures. By training a business … Read more
Faith Ouma, a native of Kenya, is a Ph.D. student in the food science department at the University of Arkansas working to improve the safety of ready-to-eat rice products. Her research was conducted through the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the research arm of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. The food science department … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain On Prime Day, Amazon shoppers will be able to browse over 600 million products. They may not be aware that most of those listings are from non-Amazon sellers, who account for 60% of sales on the platform. Most are small- and medium-sized businesses: bookstores selling used hardbacks, toymakers selling original goods, … Read more
Final tasks to integrate the EXOpod Nova module with the launcher Ariane 6. Credit: ESA The CubeCat-4 nanosatellite, developed by the UPC’s NanoSat Lab, is one of seven payloads that have traveled on the Ariane 6 maiden flight, which took off on the night of 9 to 10 July from French Guiana. CubeCat-4 is the … Read more
