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The machinery at municipal recycling facilities often gets jammed up with the adhesives which are utilized on items such as jar labels and cardboard boxes. That may cease to be the case in the not-too-distant future, however, thanks to a new degradable adhesive.Along with gumming up the works at recycling plants, adhesive waste can also clog the facilities' water systems and even make its way into what end up being lower-quality recycled materials. And while other degradable adhesives do already exist, most of them lack…

After 27 years and 117 missions, ESA's heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket has launched into retirement. On July 5, 2023 at 22:00 GMT, Flight VA261 successfully lifted off from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) in French Guiana, to carry the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) Heinrich Hertz experimental communications satellite and the French communications satellite Syracuse 4b into geosynchronous orbit.As the last Ariane 5 blasted into the skies over the South American jungle, it was amid…

Recreation drawing of ‘The Ivory Lady’. Credit: Miriam Lucianez Trivino. The highest status individual in ancient Copper Age society in Iberia, was a woman and not a man as previously thought, according to peptide analysis reported in Scientific Reports. The individual, now re-dubbed the "Ivory Lady," was buried in a tomb filled with the largest collection of…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Hadrian's Wall in Northern England is a popular tourist spot for those interested in British history. Visitors this year will get the chance to see the Roman bathhouse at Birdoswald before it is reburied by archaeologists. Birdoswald was a Roman military base on Hadrian's Wall, which was built in…

Histogram of the Originality Ratings. Note. Data displayed for 10,449 responses, averaged across the five judges. The originality ratings were highly normally distributed, as indicated by the superimposed continuous normal distribution. Credit: The Journal of Creative Behavior (2023). DOI: 10.1002/jocb.588 A new study from the University of Georgia aims to improve how we evaluate children's creativity through human ratings and…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There are more than 2 million people incarcerated in the United States. In 2019, more than 608,000 individuals were released from prison. It is estimated that up to 55 percent of people released from prison will be re-incarcerated within five years. The cause of high recidivism or re-offense rates in the U.S. is multi-dimensional. Moreover, the relationship between employment and crime is…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Using a deep learning computer model and a dataset containing millions of dashboard camera images from New York City rideshare drivers, Cornell Tech researchers were able to see which neighborhoods had the highest numbers of New York Police Department marked vehicles, a possible indication of deployment patterns. …

Credit: ArtHouseStudio/pexels Since Saturday, Australians have been required to wait until the age of 67 until they can get the age pension. The original so-called "retirement age" of 65 for men dated back to 1909. Women had their pension age lifted from 60 to 65 between 1995 and 2013. And all Australians have had it lifted in…

On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration distanced itself from the designation, compiled by the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world’s condition. That metric showed that Earth’s average temperature on Wednesday remained at an unofficial record high, 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 degrees Celsius), set the day before. And for the seven-day period ending Wednesday, the daily average…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a sudden disruption of everyday life. While many things are back to the way they were before, one change has proven harder to reverse: working from home. Three years after the switch to remote work, there is little sign people are growing tired of it.…