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Three Tips to Avoid WFH Burnout
Employees who feel "on" all the time are at a higher risk of burnout when working from home than if they were going to the office…
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Stanford Seeks Volunteers to Help Teach Its Online Coding Course
Stanford is seeking volunteer instructors to assist with its online introductory coding class, which it is offered to the public free of charge.
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If You Want Creative Solutions, Keep Your Team Small
Large collaborations in science are sometimes necessary, but size can also stifle innovation.
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Diversity in the Lab Makes Me a Better Scientist
An international environment forces you to consider different perspectives to begin with and helps you to communicate your ideas more clearly in the end.
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What Does a Crooked Election Look Like?
For voters around the world, including the millions of Americans who will cast ballots in the midterms up to and on November 6, an election is democracy in action—an...
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'Optical Tweezers' and Tools sed for Laser Eye Surgery Snag Physics Nobel
Optical physicists Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland have won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking inventions in the field of...
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Why Has America Been Such a Magnet for Immigrant Scientists?
Changes in immigration policies hover over a culture that's rewarded excellence and has not historically imposed restrictions based on prior connections, social...
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What Worries People about Future Science and Tech Innovations?
Many Americans see the future crowding into the present and some of the innovations ahead unnerve them, especially as they reshape ideas about human dominion.
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Hearing Aids Are Finally Entering the 21st Century
Most people probably associate three things with hearing aids: an elderly demographic, beige plastic construction and high-pitched feedback in public places.
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Are We Ready for the Future of Warfare?
Warfare has always been about exerting political will.
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How to Convert Your Wall into a Giant Touch Screen
The right paint can add pizazz to your walls—and now it can also make them smarter.
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The Most Important Inventor You've Never Heard Of
When The Economist called Stanford Ovshinsky "the Edison of our age," the name might have been unfamiliar to most people, but the comparison was apt.
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The Milky Way's Speediest Stars Could Solve a 50-Year-Old Mystery
Ken Shen was racing against the sun.
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How to Find a Woman Scientist
A new database is fighting the poor visibility of women in STEM by offering female professionals as speakers, panelists, experts, course leaders, and advocates...
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I Am a Roboticist in a Cheese Factory
Most people think about robots as autonomous machines guided by artificial intelligence.
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Fowl Language: AI Decodes the Nuances of Chicken 'speech'
How machine learning can translate chicken chatter and improve farming.
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Could the 'alzheimer's Gene' Finally Become a Drug Target?
Among hundreds of genes that might nudge your risk of Alzheimer's up or down, Apolipoprotein E (APOE) has the strongest effect.
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Exploring a Different Kind of Team Sport
Imagine that you wanted to get teens excited about a competitive, extracurricular team.
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What We Know About the Climate Change-Hurricane Connection
With Texas just beginning to recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey and the Southeastern U.S. preparing for Hurricane Irma's iminent arrival, people...
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Floating Treasure: Space Law Needs to Catch p with Asteroid Mining
The Outer Space Treaty (OST) turns 50 in October. The foundational 1967 pact establishes space as "the province of all mankind" and forbids the nearly 100 states...
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Robots, Start Your Engines!
There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.