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funkervogt wrote: ↑Tue Jun 01, 2021 2:16 pm What happens if the Chinese birthrate still isn't any higher in two years?

Financial incentives for those who have babies?

Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home The drive to get people back into offices is clashing with workers who’ve embraced remote work as the new normal. 1 June 2021, 12:00 BST [...] While companies from Google to Ford Motor Co. and Citigroup Inc. have promised greater flexibi...

New drone is first to reach Level 4 autonomy 1st June 2021 Exyn Technologies, a pioneer in aerial robot systems, has announced the highest documented level of aerial autonomy. Exyn's drones are now capable of Level 4A autonomy – meaning they are immune to GPS signal loss, with all spatial and mappi...

Watch: Drone crashes into erupting Icelandic volcano 2 hours ago A drone trying to film the erupting Fagradalsfjall volcano has crashed into a lava spew. YouTuber Joey Helms wanted a close up view of the spectacle, but the flight didn't go quite to plan. The volcano has been erupting since March. h...

How rafts helped primates rule the world 11 May 2021 Millions of years ago, the oceans presented a formidable barrier to the spread of primates – but were ultimately no match. Did rafts of vegetation help them conquer the globe? Humans evolved in Africa, along with chimpanzees, gorillas and monkeys...

'Gene therapy is a game changer for our son' 8 hours ago Baby Arthur is just five months old. He has no way of knowing the treatment he is receiving in his right arm is the world's most costly medicine. His devastating progressive disorder causes loss of muscle control. But he has become one of the...

U.K. set to loosen rules for gene-edited crops and animals May. 26, 2021, 2:30 PM When Boris Johnson became prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2019, he pledged to “liberate the U.K.’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti–genetic modification rules.” The country had to hew to strict Europe...

Just 7% of UK shop payments predicted to be in cash by 2024 – report Tue 1 Jun 2021 07.00 BST Just 7% of in-store purchases in the UK could be made in cash by 2024, a report has forecast, after the coronavirus pandemic fuelled the switch to cards and mobile payments. While cash accounted for 27% of...

Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution June 1, 2021 Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a technology that improves the resolution of an ordinary light microscope so that it can be used to directly observe finer structures and d...