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The focus of the SMART M3S research will be to design the technology, training programmes and institutions for successful human-machine collaboration in the workplace and beyond Singapore MIT-Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, has launched a new interdisciplinary research group (IRG) aimed at tackling key social and institutional challenges around…

The decision concludes that the United States ensures an adequate level of protection – comparable to that of the European Union – for personal data transferred from the EU to US companies under the new framework The European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. The decision concludes that the United States…

By adding weak linkers to a polymer network, chemists dramatically enhanced the material’s resistance to tearing A team of chemists from MIT and Duke University has discovered a counterintuitive way to make polymers stronger: introduce a few weaker bonds into the material. Working with a type of polymer known as polyacrylate elastomers, the researchers found…

Overcoming this challenge and achieving tunable multi-emissive RTP in a water-based system remains a challenge Materials that show persistent emission with multi-dimensional and dynamic color displays are advancing rapidly in various scientific fields. However, the presence of water and oxygen significantly impacts the performance of materials that emit through Room Temperature Phosphorescence (RTP), thereby limiting their…

For book-worm travellers, France, Italy, and Portugal top the list of Instagrammable bookshops in Europe Recent news has revealed the number of independent bookshops has hit a 10-year high alongside a reported rise in children reading due to the popularity of ‘Booktok’. With this in mind, The Knowledge Academy conducted a new study using Instagram…

Collectively, applicants address 22 different challenges facing communities ranging from clean water, renewable energies, sustainable tourism, and transportation to accessibility, agricultural technology, and public health. Leading Cities, a global non-profit driving resiliency and sustainability for cities, in partnership with QBE Insurance, have selected 100 of the world's most impactful resilient solutions for advancing sustainable development…

The sixth annual Mobile Gender Gap Report evaluates mobile ownership and mobile internet usage across low- and middle-income countries Over 800 million women will need to adopt mobile internet in order to close the digital gender gap by 2030 across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), according to the latest Mobile Gender Gap Report published by the GSMA…