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Tackling ‘wicked’ problems calls for engineers with social responsibility
In the nineteenth century, steamboat explosions were common — until they weren’t.Credit: Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Wicked Problems: How to Engineer…
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official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
Ranga Dias, the physicist at the centre of the room-temperature superconductivity scandal, committed data fabrication, falsification and plagiarism, according to…
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is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
Social-media platforms aren’t always social.Credit: Getty The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of…
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what it means for the future
A pig kidney is unpacked for transplant into 62-year-old Richard Slayman of Massachusetts.Credit: Massachusetts General Hospital Early success in the…
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what I learnt from using a time-tracking spreadsheet
By monitoring where she spent her time, Megan Rogers could improve her working hours and track her achievements.Credit: Getty Starting…
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Workplaces are failing Black women; they must do better
As an academic who studies social policy and race, I was not surprised to learn of the resignation of Claudine…
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building point-of-care diagnostic tools to fight tuberculosis
Mireille Kamariza works on an affordable test for tuberculosis, which could help to control the disease in poorer countries.Credit: UCLA…
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Save lives in the next pandemic: ensure vaccine equity now
Since 2022, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have been negotiating a new treaty — provisionally termed the…
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Building robots to get kids hooked on STEM subjects
Sponsor message: 00:00 This Working Scientist podcast series is sponsored by the University of Queensland, where research is addressing some…
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what it means for scientists
Michael Mann was responsible for the famous ‘hockey-stick graph’ depicting climate warming.Credit: James Ross/Australian Associated Press/Alamy US climate scientist Michael…
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