Schlagwort: Society
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Printing with earth materials
ETH researchers have developed a fast, robot-assisted printing process for earth materials that does not require cement. Zurich, September, 10th 2024.Entire houses can be built from clay or earth. The material is cheap, available almost everywhere and sustainable in construction because it does not require cement. However, conventional construction methods are very labour-intensive, slow and…
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Humans think in many dimensions at the same time
A key aim of our perception is to recognise objects and assign them to different categories – for example, whether this object in front of us is a dog and whether a dog belongs to the category of animals. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and the…
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Journalism in social media: Too little money for good content
Mannheim, September, 04th, 2024. A recent study conducted jointly by ZEW Mannheim and the University of Technology and Economics Budapest shows that social media and news providers can benefit from each other if news providers pay for the quality of their content and social media operators support them in this endeavour. Because of the news…
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Part-time loses, time sovereignty wins Employees want flexible working hours
Jobs with a high degree of flexibility in terms of the scope and location of daily working hours, as well as more family-friendliness, are very popular with women and men. Only part-time work is obviously less popular. Gütersloh, September, 05th, 2024: At first glance, women are well integrated into the German labour market with an…
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Ice Age Europeans Climate change caused dramatic decline in hunter-gatherer populations
Tübingen, 22 August 2024 – Large-scale study of fossil human teeth from Ice Age Europe shows that climate change significantly affected the demography of prehistoric humans Using the largest dataset of human fossils from Ice Age Europe to date and a new method based on a machine learning algorithm, an international research team shows how…