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Report calls for major changes to workplace conditions for pregnant women and working parents

Oct 18, 2024

19 March 2024A report exploring the working conditions of pregnant employees and parents has been released today, calling for major changes in Australian workplaces to counter the “vast discrimination and...

New analysis: most care homes closed by industry regulator are run for-profit

Oct 18, 2024

However, this new data challenges the assumption that these pressures can be eased by outsourcing more social care to the for-profit sector. This found that almost all involuntary closures since...

Political Theorist Achille Mbembe Named 2024 Holberg Laureate

Oct 18, 2024

(BERGEN, Norway) – Today, the Holberg Prize—one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology—named Cameroonian scholar Achille Mbembe...

Does Liposal relieve dry mouth?

Oct 18, 2024

Recently, a clinical trial of the product Liposal started, investigating whether it can relieve dry mouth. In collaboration with Marianne Hiorth at the Department of Pharmacy, they developed the mouth...

Three MIT alumni graduate from NASA astronaut training

Oct 18, 2024

“It's been a wild ride,” says Christopher Williams PhD ’12, moments after he received his astronaut pin, signifying graduation into the NASA astronaut corps. NASA Astronaut Group 23 are the...

A new sensor detects harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water

Oct 18, 2024

MIT chemists have designed a sensor that detects tiny quantities of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — chemicals found in food packaging, nonstick cookware, and many other consumer products. They...

2024 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named

Oct 18, 2024

Four outstanding undergraduate teachers and mentors have been named MacVicar Faculty Fellows: professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Karl Berggren, professor of political science Andrea Campbell, associate professor...

There goes the sun. Again?

Oct 18, 2024

It was just back in August 2017 when we needed special light-blocking eyewear to view a total solar eclipse that cut a swath across the country. With deference to Bonnie...

Three Cambridge researchers awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies

Oct 18, 2024

Funded by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the Academy’s Chair in Emerging Technologies scheme aims to identify global research visionaries and provide them with long-term support. Since...

TikTok Turns to Creators to Fight Possible Ban

Oct 18, 2024

Facing a possible ban in the United States, TikTok has scrambled to deploy perhaps its most powerful weapon: its creators. But it may face an uphill battle in the Senate,...