science and technology

Tackling plastic pollution

Tackling plastic pollution with a net of law and chemical coding

An innovative proposal to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis with a combination of DNA-like encoding of plastics and international law has been put forward by a transdisciplinary team of QUT researchers.
Facebook parent company

Facebook parent company Meta laying off 13 percent of employees

Facebook parent Meta is laying off 11,000 people, about 13 percent of its workforce, as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to employees Wednesday.
US-China chip war

SMIC: The Chinese company at the centre of US-China chip war

Despite roadblocks, China’s largest semiconductor maker has acquired the technology and skills to produce the most advanced chips.
social media platform

Biden calls out Elon Musk and Twitter at Chicago-area fundraiser

President Joe Biden on Friday called out Elon Musk, saying the billionaire had purchased a social media platform that “spews lies all across the world.”
decarbonization push

PM Kishida eager to employ auto industry in decarbonization push

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday expressed his belief the auto industry can play a major role in bringing both economic growth and decarbonization to Japan.
first national car plant

‘A game changer’: Türkiye inaugurates its first national car plant

Türkiye inaugurated its first national car manufacturing plant, Gemlik Campus in the country’s northwest province of Bursa.
Escape Covid Curbs

Workers Leave Biggest IPhone Plant to Escape Covid Curbs

Workers are departing Apple Inc.’s biggest iPhone plant in China, seeking to escape hastily enacted Covid measures that left many of the 200,000 staff grappling with inadequate living conditions.
Antibody-based therapy

Antibody-based therapy eliminates circulating tumor cells in mouse models of breast and pancreatic cancer

Investigators have designed an antibody-based treatment that eliminated circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in mouse models of breast and pancreatic cancer. The research, which was led by scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and is published in PNAS, represents a promising strategy to halt the spread of cancer.
solve new problems

Study explores how the brain allows the use of previous knowledge to solve new...

When humans and animals face a specific situation or problem, they typically have an overall idea of how to approach it. For instance, when walking into a shop, humans will know that they should tell a shop assistant what they are looking for or simply browse the products available, pay for any items they wish to purchase, and leave. Similarly, an animal might know what to do in the presence of a predator, a potential mate, or when trying to gather food in a specific environment.
Korean economy

[ANALYSIS] Samsung could revive ‘control tower’ to become more agile

Korea's overall industrial ecosystem is represented by the existence of the chaebol, a combination of the Korean words "jae" (wealth) and "beol" (clan or clique). It also stands for plutocracy and rich business families.

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