Britain’s net zero construction workforce is already at risk of burn out

Workers ‘on the tools’, building and upgrading transmission infrastructure, are struggling.

Jing Xu, Associate Professor in Enterprise Management, UCL • conversation
May 16, 2025 ~7 min

Britain’s net zero construction workforce is already at risk of being burnt out

Workers ‘on the tools’, building and upgrading transmission infrastructure, are struggling.

Jing Xu, Associate Professor in Enterprise Management, UCL • conversation
May 16, 2025 ~7 min


Britain’s net zero construction workforce is already at risk of burnt out

Workers ‘on the tools’, building and upgrading transmission infrastructure, are struggling.

Jing Xu, Associate Professor in Enterprise Management, UCL • conversation
May 16, 2025 ~7 min

Some viruses prefer mosquitoes to humans, but people get sick anyway − a virologist and entomologist explain why

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between people, however, it faces extra challenges.

Pilar Pérez Romero, Associate Professor of Virology, University of Notre Dame • conversation
Feb. 4, 2025 ~9 min

Trump and Harris have clashing records on clean energy, but the clean power shift is too broad for any president to control

Vice President Kamala Harris has strongly supported clean energy investments, while Donald Trump has railed against them. But transformative shifts in the energy landscape already are well underway.

Daniel Cohan, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University • conversation
Sept. 30, 2024 ~9 min

Offshore wind farms connected by an underwater power grid for transmission could revolutionize how the East Coast gets its electricity

A big roadblock to offshore wind power is getting approval for onshore transmission lines. But what if there were fewer connection points, and power could flow both ways? Plans are underway.

Erin Baker, Professor of Industrial Engineering Applied to Energy Policy, UMass Amherst • conversation
July 31, 2024 ~10 min

Disinfectants and cleaning products harboring toxic chemicals are widely used despite lack of screening for potential health hazards

Quaternary ammonium compounds, also known as QACs or quats, are commonly used antimicrobials also found in many household products. Soap and water may be a safer bet when cleaning surfaces.

Courtney Carignan, Assistant Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University • conversation
May 9, 2023 ~6 min

How do superconductors work? A physicist explains what it means to have resistance-free electricity

Superconductors are materials that can transmit electricity without any resistance. Researchers are getting closer to creating superconducting materials that can function in everyday life.

Mishkat Bhattacharya, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology • conversation
March 24, 2023 ~6 min


Unlocking secrets of the honeybee dance language – bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills

Honeybees possess one of the most complex examples of nonhuman communication. New research suggests that it is learned and culturally passed down from older to younger bees.

James C. Nieh, Associate Dean and Professor of Biology, University of California, San Diego • conversation
March 9, 2023 ~8 min

The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all

Recent research suggests rats may not have played the critical role in keeping plague going in Europe.

Philip Slavin, Associate Professor of History, University of Stirling • conversation
Jan. 18, 2023 ~8 min

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