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New research to drive advances in neonatal health, architecture, technology, schools and desalination

Jan 6, 2022

04 January 2022UniSA has been awarded $2.5 million for ARC Discovery projects to start in 2022. The projects are among seven successful UniSA Discovery Grants announced in late December by...

Power consumption off the rails? Smart scheduling can help conserve energy

Jan 6, 2022

France’s state-owned rail operator SNCF deploys the Energymiser smart driving advice software, developed by UniSA Associate Professor Peter Pudney and colleagues, to reduce the energy consumption of its inter-city TGV...

Classes canceled as Chicago Teachers Union votes to defy in-person learning order amid omicron surge

Jan 6, 2022

The city's teachers union voted Tuesday to return to remote learning. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times/AP)Chicago public schools canceled classes Wednesday after the city’s teachers union voted overwhelmingly to return to...

Deadline 08.01 for Panel Proposals to the Nordic Challenges Conference

Jan 6, 2022

Deadline 08.01 for Panel Proposals to the Nordic Challenges ConferenceThe deadline for the Call for Panels to the conference organized by ReNEW is approaching. Foto: ReNEWNordic NeighbourhoodsThe annual Nordic Challenges...

Anti-vaccination sentiments are closely linked to a mistrust in state power

Jan 6, 2022

Anti-vaccination sentiments are closely linked to a mistrust in state powerDistrust of the state in Turkey, religion and abortion resistance in the United States. Americans protesting the coronavirus vaccine in...

Map: 7 straight days of record-setting Covid case counts

Jan 6, 2022

Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country are breaking records day after day as the omicron variant rages on. The U.S. has set a seven-day-average record for Covid cases every...

The 1918 flu is even more relevant in 2022 thanks to omicron

Jan 6, 2022

Over the past two years, historians and analysts have compared the coronavirus to the 1918 flu pandemic. Eventually anti-maskers and an improving epidemic situation combined to end the "masked" city's...

Real-time alert system heralds new era in fast radio burst research

Jan 5, 2022

The development is a key step towards bringing the resources of the international research community to bear on the data the CHIME/FRB project is generating. About fast radio burstsFast radio...

Southeast U.S. poised for a firestorm of omicron cases, with few safeguards in place

Jan 4, 2022

The United States is heading into the third year of the coronavirus pandemic with the extremely contagious omicron variant poised to ignite a firestorm of infection across the Southeast after...

Violence flares at pandemic protests in Germany

Jan 4, 2022

Police officers arrest a demonstrator in the city centreof Bautzen, Germany, during protests against Corona measures and a possible compulsory vaccination in Germany, Monday evening, Jan. 3, 2022. (Robert Michael/dpa...