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Graduate students Esther Monroe (left) and Nishit Shetty carry out droplet experiments using a custom-built environmental rotating chamber. A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are developing devices to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 in the air.
As the COVID-19 pandemic surged last summer and contact tracers struggled to identify sources of infections, John Cirrito, PhD, an associate professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Carla Yuede, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry, began to kick around an idea. Could a biosensor they’d developed years ago for Alzheimer’s disease be converted into a detector for the virus that causes COVID-19?
A pair of pro-police GOP bills in Missouri draw scrutiny from free speech advocates Marquise Francis
Republican lawmakers in Missouri are looking to pass two bills this month that they say better protect both residents and law enforcement officers from “violent protesters.”
But critics say the measures will curtail the free speech rights of protesters, and effectively act as retaliation against demonstrators following the racial unrest surrounding the police killings of Black Americans such as George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Missouri state Senate bills S.B. 26 and S.B. 66 aim to expand penalties for protesters obstructing traffic or vandalizing monuments and make it harder to cut police budgets, among other things. But progressive activists say that instead of quelling protests, these bills will only rile up more people.
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Syngenta Seeds and the Analytics Society of INFORMS announce winner of 2021 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics
April 15, 2021 GMT
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 15, 2021
Syngenta Seeds and the Analytics Society of INFORMS selected a team affiliated with CSIRO Data61 in Australia as the winner of the 2021 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics.
The Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics is a collaborative effort between Syngenta Seeds and the Analytics Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences ( INFORMS ). Now in its sixth consecutive year, the competition brings together experts in data analytics, mathematics and statistics to create analytical solutions to agriculture challenges.
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Why the Attempt to Unionize at a US Amazon Warehouse Failed
Workers in Alabama tried to form the first union at an Amazon facility in the United States, but saw their efforts fail.
The final tally of the vote at the Bessemer warehouse was 1,798 to 738. Another 505 ballots were challenged, but that number is not sufficient to affect the results, according to the National Labor Relations Board.
Workers who opted against joining the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) said they did not know if the union could improve conditions that are already better than most entry-level jobs in the area and were not sure if their jobs would be safe.