For hundreds of thousands of Chinese people, Beijing’s crackdown on after-school tutoring this summer means their well-paying jobs are disappearing quickly.
A new luminescent sensor can detect terbium, a valuable rare earth element used in smart phone displays, from complex environmental samples like acid mine waste.
Business leaders in sectors ranging from tech to insurance committed billions of dollars to beefing up cybersecurity efforts at a meeting with President Biden.
Salesforce will gain $530 million in revenue in the current fiscal year thanks to a contribution from Slack, an $27.7 billion acquisition that closed in July.
Carbon dioxide emissions from the global electric power sector surged past pre-pandemic levels to record highs in the first half of 2021, new research found.
The grid is struggling to keep up with extreme weather events caused by climate change, and consumers are taking power resiliency into their own hands.
Mantis shrimp pack the strongest punch of any creature in the animal kingdom. How mantis shrimp produce these deadly, ultra-fast movements has long fascinated biologists. Now, an interdisciplinary team of roboticists, engineers and biologists have mode…
Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves in waterways, forming bicarbonate ions and other compounds that change water chemistry, with possible harmful effects on aquatic organisms. In addition, bicarbonate can reenter the atmosphere as carbon dioxi…
A beam of light can only be seen when it hits matter particles and is scattered or reflected by them. In a vacuum, however, it is invisible. Physicists have now developed a method that allows laser beams to be visualized even under these conditions. Th…
Randomized clinical trial shows that engaging in virtual reality can significantly reduce pain and anxiety in children undergoing intravenous catheter placement.
Randomized clinical trial shows that engaging in virtual reality can significantly reduce pain and anxiety in children undergoing intravenous catheter placement.
La red social, TikTok, ha firmado un acuerdo con Shopify con el objetivo de ayudarle a ampliar sus estrategias mediante la publicación de vídeos, permitiendo a Shopify vender y comercializar en su plataforma. Este acuerdo estará vigente tanto en España…
WhatsApp ha decidido implantar una nueva herramienta similar a Bizum, WhatsApp Pay, la cual permite enviar dinero a los contactos utilizando varias plataformas como el móvil, iPad o tabletas Android. El objetivo de esta nueva herramienta es plantar car…
Desde un poco antes de la pandemia se comenzó a percibir un cambio en los intereses de los consumidores y las marcas, todo comenzaba a girar hacia la sostenibilidad. Es difícil saber si fue antes el huevo o la gallina, pues aquí pasa un poco lo mismo n…
El pasado mes de mayo presentó un nuevo algoritmo revolucionario: Multitask Unified Model o MUM. Tiene como objetivo responder con precisión a solicitudes complejas. Pretende ser mil veces más potente que los anteriores para transformar la forma en que…
Instagram abandona la función de ‘deslizar hacia arriba’ y lo sustituye por un nuevo tipo de ‘pegatinas de enlace’. Esta nueva herramienta será incluida a partir del 30 de agosto, pero solamente para aquellos usuarios verificados o que alcancen un gran…
2020 fue un año de reflexión continua en el que las prioridades de la población en su conjunto cambiaron. Términos como «Coronavirus», «Cepa» o «Salud mental» aumentaron en el número de búsquedas según los datos revelados por Google, creando así un…
El 94% de las principales páginas web de comercio electrónico europeas cometen cinco o más errores básicos en sus procesos de pagos. Esta es la conclusión a la que ha llegado Stripe tras el estudio “Estado de los procesos de compra europeos en 2021” qu…
Facial recognition is now common in adults, but researchers have developed software that can reliably detect a premature baby’s face in an incubator and remotely monitor its heart and breathing rates – rivaling ECG machines and even outperforming them….
Researchers have achieved growth and characterization of large area, single-crystal graphene that has no wrinkles, folds, or adlayers. It can be said to be the most perfect graphene that has been grown and characterized, to date.
Researchers have made the first direct observation of how hydrogen atoms in water molecules tug and push neighboring water molecules when they are excited with laser light.
