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Biology
Machines that throw “spanners while working” of cells can help combat cancer, fatty liver disease…and hair loss
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Fifty years after that discovery, scientists finally solved how molecular machines found in mitochondria can provide the necessary fuel from sugar, a process essential to all life on Earth. Scientists at the Mitochondrial Biology Unit at Cambridge University Medical Research Council (MRC) have shown how to solve the structure of this machine and act like a…
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Earth
Groundwater benefits indicate that Arizona’s policy is working, but climate risks still threaten water supply
The Superstition Mountains Recharge Project is part of the Phoenix Active Management area. Water from the Colorado River is brought into the basin, allowing groundwater levels to be recharged. Credit: Central Arizona Project/Philip A. Fortnum Research led by Austin schools in Arizona and Colorado and collaborators shows that despite areas dealing with long-term water stress, it has contributed to a…
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Science
US workers who work remotely friendly jobs are working from home almost half the time five years after the pandemic began
Credit: Katlinboroughtssova of Pexels Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic disrupts office life, the American workplace has settled into a new rhythm. Remotely friendly employees now spend an average of 2.3 days each week at home. This is a research team that tracks remote employment. And looking at all workers, not only remotely friendly positions, they work remotely 1.4 days…
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Other Sciences
Study finds teacher strikes are effective in improving wages and working conditions
Credit: LaTerrian McIntosh, unsplash.com A detailed study of more than 770 teacher strikes in the United States between 2007 and 2023 finds that strikes benefited teachers and classrooms, with no measurable impact on students. did. Melissa Arnold Ryan, assistant professor of public policy at the Rockefeller School of Public Policy, is the lead author of the study “Causes and Consequences…
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