Three ways your wardrobe could help you avoid fast fashion
Every wardrobe tells a story and reconnecting with the clothes you already own could reduce your need to buy more fast fashion. Here are three ways to fall back in love with your wardrobe.
Wendy Ward, PhD Candidate, Sheffield Hallam University •
conversation
March 11, 2024 • ~5 min
March 11, 2024 • ~5 min
Early COVID-19 research is riddled with poor methods and low-quality results − a problem for science the pandemic worsened but didn’t create
Pressure to ‘publish or perish’ and get results out as quickly as possible has led to weak study designs and shortened peer-review processes.
Dennis M. Gorman, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A&M University •
conversation
Feb. 23, 2024 • ~10 min
Feb. 23, 2024 • ~10 min
Combining two types of molecular boron nitride could create a hybrid material used in faster, more powerful electronics
Two forms of the same boron nitride molecules couldn’t look and act more different – but combining them could lead to applications that have the best of both worlds.
Abhijit Biswas, Research Scientist in Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Rice University •
conversation
Jan. 24, 2024 • ~7 min
Jan. 24, 2024 • ~7 min
Acapulco was built to withstand earthquakes, but not Hurricane Otis' destructive winds – how building codes failed this resort city
The best science is not always the best engineering when it comes to building codes. It’s also a problem across the US, as an engineer who works on disaster resilience explains.
Michel Bruneau, Professor of Engineering, University at Buffalo •
conversation
Nov. 7, 2023 • ~9 min
Nov. 7, 2023 • ~9 min
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