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A cross-country analysis of sustainability, transport and energy poverty
Our cross-country comparison of energy and transport poverty is grounded in four different locations (see Supplementary Fig. 2). To explore the theme of energy and transport poverty, our primary data sources for the study were fourfold: three nationally representative surveys (with quantitative and qualitative questions) distributed in the UAE, Mexico and Ireland. We also conducted…
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Study finds 1.3 million disabled workers trapped in insecure work in UK
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research by the Work Foundation at Lancaster University reveals 1.3 million disabled workers are trapped in severely insecure work in the U.K.—and 430,000 say they want to work more hours. Disabled workers are 1.5 times more likely to be in severely insecure work compared to their non-disabled peers and are…
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Earliest strands of the cosmic web — ScienceDaily
Galaxies are not scattered randomly across the universe. They gather together not only into clusters, but into vast interconnected filamentary structures with gigantic barren voids in between. This “cosmic web” started out tenuous and became more distinct over time as gravity drew matter together. Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a thread-like…
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Consumers more likely to use virtual apparel try-on software if interactive
Credit: CC0 Public Domain While more and more people are shopping online, purchasing clothes on the internet poses a unique challenge: What if it doesn’t fit? The apparel industry’s latest solution is virtual try-on sessions that allow consumers to share photos or measurements of themselves to create a similar-sized avatar. While some consumers have significant…
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For job applicants with a criminal record, showcasing the right credentials can make a difference
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Employment is believed to reduce the likelihood of criminal recidivism, but a criminal record is a significant barrier to employment. People with a criminal record are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed, or to have a job that does not match their skills or interests. In a new study, researchers…
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Economic inequality cannot be explained by individual bad choices, study finds
Correlation between ten biases within 3346 participants showed each bias was largely unique and not collinear with other biases assessed, with the exception of overplacement and overestimation (which rely on the presence of some biases). Credit: Scientific Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36339-2 A global study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health…
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Radio telescope observations of Milky Way pulsars reveal spacetime distortions likely caused by enormous gravitational waves rolling through everything in existence — ScienceDaily
You can’t see or feel it, but everything around you — including your own body — is slowly shrinking and expanding. It’s the weird, spacetime-warping effect of gravitational waves passing through our galaxy, according to a new study by a team of researchers with the U.S. National Science Foundation’s NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center. The findings…
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A ‘complicated circus of chemicals’
Dr. Jeremiah Gassensmith, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Texas at Dallas, lifts a brisket after cooking it for eight hours in his backyard smoker. Credit: The University of Texas at Dallas Cooking the perfect brisket is a lot like conducting a science experiment. And Dr. Jeremiah Gassensmith should know—he’s both…
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Welcome to Fusion City, USA
The future of carbon-free energy smells like teriyaki and sounds like a low-flying 737. A sleepy strip mall beside Boeing’s sprawling campus in Everett, WA isn’t necessarily where you’d expect to find technology promising to harness the power of the sun, release humanity from the grip of fossil fuels, and unlock an estimated US $40…
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Engineers overcome ‘light scattering’ with full-motion video — ScienceDaily
Engineers from Rice University and the University of Maryland have created full-motion video technology that could potentially be used to make cameras that peer through fog, smoke, driving rain, murky water, skin, bone and other media that reflect scattered light and obscure objects from view. “Imaging through scattering media is the ‘holy grail problem’ in…