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Employers are paying up to address labor shortages Source: axios 2 hours ago - Economy & Business Employers are doing what they have to do to address persistent labor shortages: They’re offering more money. Why it matters: The reopening of the U.S. economy is fueling demand for goods and servic...

Tropical Storm Elsa gaining strength, could become hurricane Source: AP By CURT ANDERSON and FREIDA FRISARO ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Elsa is strengthening and could became a hurricane before making landfall along Florida’s Gulf coast. The storm ha...

28 feared dead in plane crash in Russia's Far East Source: AP By DARIA LITVINOVA MOSCOW (AP) — A plane carrying 28 people crashed Tuesday, apparently as it came in for a landing in bad weather in Russia’s Far East, and everyone aboard was feared dead. Wreckage from the An-26 was found on a coastal ...

Student designs device to save stabbing victims' lives By Ben Coxworth July 05, 2021 https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/react-stabbing-victims-device/ When someone is suffering from a deep stab wound, it's important to apply pressure within that wound, not just down onto it. A new student-designed d...

Building a better biosensor polymer by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology https://phys.org/news/2021-07-biosensor-polymer.html A new organic (carbon-based) semiconducting material has been developed that outperforms existing options for building the next generation of biosensors. An ...

Hackers demand $70 mn after Kaseya ransomware attack https://techxplore.com/news/2021-07-hackers-demand-mn-kaseya-ransomware.html by Katy Lee With Nioucha Zakavati In Stockholm A Coop supermarket in Sweden has a sign reading "Temporarliy closed - We have an IT-disturbance and our systems are no...

Manufacturing drone wings with locust wing capabilities https://techxplore.com/news/2021-07-drone-wings-locust-wing-capabilities.html by Bob Yirka , Tech Xplore A team of researchers from the University of Lincoln in the U.S. and Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Guangzhou University...

A 30% reduction in Wisconsin's wolf population https://phys.org/news/2021-07-reduction-wisconsin-wolf-population.html About 100 additional wolves died over the winter in Wisconsin as a result of the delisting of grey wolves under the Endangered Species Act, alongside the 218 wolves killed by license...

Ancient bone carving could change the way we think about Neanderthals Archaeologists determined the artifact to be at least 51,000 years old—before the arrival of Homo Sapiens in central Europe. The design may be simple, but a chevron pattern etched onto a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago sugges...

5.2 quake on Hawaii's Big Island felt as far away as Kauai Source: AP By CALEB JONES HONOLULU (AP) — A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has hit off Hawaii’s Big Island. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake hit less than 3 miles (5 kilometers) offshore of the northwest coast of the Big Island M...