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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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Three actions PhD-holders should take to land their next job
Many skills that PhD-holders acquire in the lab are useful in the corporate world.Credit: Getty When I finished my PhD…
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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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Could the gut give rise to alcohol addiction?
Illustration: Sam Falconer Andrew Day, a molecular microbiologist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, is four years sober. His journey…
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Kurt Gödel’s forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
Kurt Gödel (left) and Albert Einstein in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1950.Credit: Imagno/Getty The 2023 film Oppenheimer narrates the story…
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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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‘Education is possible in any situation’ — what I’ve learnt from teaching in Kyiv amid a war
In September 2022, seven months after Russia invaded Ukraine, I enrolled in a doctoral degree programme at the National Academy…
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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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Fractional quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field observed in an unexpected material
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 21 February 2024 The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect occurs when the Hall resistance in a material is…
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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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