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  The U.S. government has become obsessed with Africa. Not with fostering its strength, independence, health, or economic development, mind you. Instead, it is worried about why Africans don’t like us much.

UF Innovative Hub team finds ways to stay one step ahead of evolving retail crime.

Scientists have observed that the octopus leaves its protective embrace over its brood and becomes self-destructive as soon as the eggs are about to hatch.

Insider asked 12 VCs at top firms for their picks for the most promising startups racing to make transportation and logistics more sustainable.

Ascend is rapidly growing domestically and gaining notoriety internationally due to its hydro-to-cathode system, which transforms used lithium batteries and manufacturing scrap into high-quality batteries geared towards the electric vehicle industry.

From 30 to 31 March 2022, UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering welcomed over 150 researchers from across the globe for the 8th Expert Meeting of IEA-EBC Annex 79.

A series of two studies published in Evolutionary Psychology found that men were more likely to adopt strategies involving resource acquisition capacity to become attractive to mates, while women were more likely to adopt strategies involving physical appearances. The researchers classified the various identified strategies into two domains, one aimed at developing and/or demonstrating fitness-increasing traits, and the other toward deceiving about fitness-impairing traits. ...

Yan Wang, William Smith Foundation Dean's Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), has been named to the National Academy of Inventors’ (NAI) 2022 Class of Senior Members.

Members of the WPI community are encouraged to vote for Yan Wang, William Smith Foundation Dean's professor of mechanical engineering, in the Better World Awards, for his work in Lithium-ion battery recycling. He and his team are one of three finalists in this competition from 65 submissions spanning seven countries.

A novel method of recycling such batteries could help meet skyrocketing demand