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Accidental Discovery Two postdoctoral researchers — Renxuan Xie and Sanjoy Mukherjee — working in Bates’ and Chabinyc’s lab played key roles in developing the new material, discovering it quite by accident while they were working on something for another project, they said. However, its ability to hold its shape so well clued them into its capability for use in 3D printing, Bates said. The key to Xie’s and Mukherjee’s discovery involves the self-assembly of bottlebrush polymers at the nanometer length scale, they said. This causes a solid-to-liquid transition in response to applie...

By Sara d’Amato This feature was commissioned by the New York Wine and Grape Foundation A wave of exemplary wines from New York State are about to reach our Ontario shores with a springtime LCBO release featuring eight wines from across the state. Four of the eight wines are available online as LCBO Destination Collection – Wines of New York on April 26 th while the remaining four will be made available at Vintages stores as part of the May 15th release. The WineAlign team has had a chance to taste almost all of the LCBO release wines, a full listing can be found below with links t...

After the reading of the Chauvin verdict, many community leaders here in Southeast Texas say they're optimistic in seeing systemic changes

Brian Candee, who has been in the restaurant business for 30 years, normally gets 50 to 60 emails when he puts a help wanted ad on Craigslist. But when he was hiring for Dinh Dinh Kitchen, his new Southeast Asian-American restaurant in Bedford Hills in Westchester County, he got zero. Zero. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. “I actually anticipated that hiring wouldn’t be too difficult — because of the reduction of restaurants. I figured there would be a lot of good, skilled people looking for work.” Others in the industry are experiencing the same thing.  Christophe...

Restaurant owners across New York state say an unheard-of labor shortage has stymied their ability to dig themselves out of the financial shortfalls that have come as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. And it comes at a time when warmer weather and the freedom that comes with vaccines are making diners, cooped up all winter, more eager than ever to go out to eat. When they do, these diners will likely see the effects of the workforce shortage, including adapted menus, hard-to-find reservations, higher prices, and, in the end, fewer restaurants. “Across the board, for the front of hou...