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Flexible work supports mental well-being, but only with good leadership
Swinburne Edge and Deloitte have released a new report, “Reset, Restore, Reframe—Enabling Wellbeing through Flexible Working,”…
Wildfire season: Improving community evacuation plans using data-driven models
Wildfires pose a significant risk to residents living in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) in the American…
Lignin nanoparticles: A sustainable recipe for combining cellulose with hydrophobic polymers for advanced applications
The Bioproduct Chemistry team at Aalto University have designed a sustainable method to produce strong and…
How courts can help protect human rights amid climate change
On Sept. 23, the United Nations Human Rights Committee found that the Australian government had violated…
Moving beyond the media's 'deficit lens' is essential for racialized people to claim belonging
Australia’s mainstream media has long viewed refugees, migrants and Indigenous communities through a “deficit lens.” That’s…
Drastic retreat of Norway's largest glacier highlights scale of climate change
A geography expert from The University of Manchester has demonstrated the speed and scale of climate…
Extinct but newly discovered: Germany's oldest freshwater shrimp
An international team of researchers led by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has described Germany’s first…
Magnetic quantum fluid: Extremely fluid in two ways
Two superfluids can exist at the same time in ultracold atomic clouds. Until now, their coexistence…
3D protein structure predictions made by AI could boost cancer research and drug discovery
In a living being, proteins make up roughly everything: from the molecular machines running every cell’s…