It’s been six years since the COVID pandemic swept the world, and by now we are all familiar with the pros and cons of remote working. As the protracted battle over return-to-office (RTO) mandates suggests, a number of personal and professional…
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Audit managers' work-life balance suffered during COVID
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Long Before Pottery, Children Shaped Clay to Tell Stories
A cache of 142 beads and pendants from five Natufian (15,000 to 11,650 years before the present) sites in Israel reveals that clay was first used not for tools or cooking, but for symbolism and identity, often crafted by children whose…
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Potential Strait of Hormuz blockade could disrupt global supply chains, study finds
A prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important oil shipping routes, could severely disrupt global supply chains and destabilize energy markets, potentially leading to far-reaching economic impacts, according to a…
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Engineering Challenges and Component Strategies in Humanoid Robotics: From Prototype to Production
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Humanoid robotics is advancing rapidly, yet engineers continue to face formidable barriers in locomotion stability, real-time perception, safe human interaction, and power-constrained hardware design. As the industry approaches…
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Vitrimer-enabled circularity through upcycling mixed polyolefin waste from milk packets into valuable 3D printing feedstock
Unraveling the mechanism: DFT-based insights into polyethylene upcycling
Through our theoretical understanding, we investigated the radical generation and bond formation pathways involved in the melt mixing process. TAC contains three potential…
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Behind the green veil: board characteristics, greenwashing, and the fraud triangle
Abdelkader MG, Gao Y, Elamer AA (2024) Board gender diversity and ESG performance: the mediating role of temporal orientation in south africa context. J Clean Prod 440: 140728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.140728
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Organizational psychological ownership drives employee-AI collaboration via AI crafting under paternalistic leadership
Mora-López, J. P., Lopez-Lopez, D. & Rivera-Hernaez, O. Unveiling the generative AI boom: What hype metrics reveal for digital business and E-commerce. Electron. Commerc. Res. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-025-09984-0 (2025).
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Enhancing chemical safety information for the future
Torres, K. ASSE speaks out against TLV lawsuit. EHS Today. https://www.ehstoday.com/archive/article/21911512/asse-speaks-out-against-tlv-lawsuit (December 18, 2006).
Shimonovich, M., Pearce, A., Thomson, H., Keyes, K. & Katikireddi, S. V….
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Adaptive robot guidance through real-time compliance estimation and dual-modal control
Haddadin, S., Albu-Schaffer, A. & Hirzinger, G. Safe, stable and intuitive control for physical human-robot interaction 3383–3388 (2009).
Mamedov, S. et al. A passivity-based framework for safe physical human–robot interaction. Robotics 12,…
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Neanderthals May Have Used Birch Tar as Natural Antibiotic
New experiments show that tar made from birch bark — long known as a tool adhesive — can inhibit harmful bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, suggesting Neanderthals may have used it to treat wounds and manage infection during the Ice…
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