Study: Building trades’ risky drinking problems
As a steep economic downturn looms, drug and alcohol experts are calling for more reduction measures to combat risky drinking behaviour in the construction sector.
In spite of workplace safety issues, a study of more...
Plasma electrons can be used to produce metallic films, Researchers Say
The processors used in today's computers and phones consist of billions of tiny transistors connected by thin metallic films. Scientists at Linköping University, LiU, have now shown that it is possible to create thin...
Study: The role of European policy for improving power plant fuel efficiency
A new study published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists investigates the impact of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), the largest international cap-and-trade system for greenhouse...
Study: Increase in winter warm spells in UK temperature records
In a new analysis of historical daily temperature data published in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, scientists from the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick, British Antarctic Survey, and ...
Scientists develop chemistry needed to create marijuana breathalyzer
UCLA chemists have reported the key chemical discovery necessary for the creation of a small, electronic marijuana breathalyzer. The research is published in Organic Letters, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society.
The legalization...
Research finds stronger links between automation and inequality
Modern technology affects different workers in different ways. In some white-collar jobs — designer, engineer — people become more productive with sophisticated software at their side. In other cases, forms of automation, from robots...
Study: Microorganisms in parched regions extract needed water from colonized rocks
In Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, microorganisms are able to eke out an existence by extracting water from the very rocks they colonize.
Through work in the field and...
Study: Telehealth solutions in home dementia care
Telehealth delivery of dementia care in the home can be as effective as face-to-face home visit services if carers and recipients take advantage of the technologies available, Australian researchers say.
The study of 63 people...
Plastic Pollution reaching Antarctica, According to Study
New findings include analyses of some of the longest continuous datasets in the world on plastics ingested by seabirds and washed up on beaches, and insights into where this plastic originates. They also highlight...
Researchers invent nanoparticle that could improve treatment for bone defects
A team of biomaterials scientists and dentists at the UCLA School of Dentistry has developed a nanoparticle that, based on initial experiments in animals, could improve treatment for bone defects.
A paper describing the advance...