Largest study of links between consumption of the beverage and gut diversity finds coffee-loving bacteria.
Chemistry of the planet’s atmosphere suggests that its interior has never held water.
Artefacts from a Mesopotamian archaeological site suggest that people in the region founded and later rejected an early form of the organized state.
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Model-stumping benchmark shows human experts remain on top—for now
Researchers probe volcanoes’ response to a changing world
Urgent action underway to bolster treatments and prevent dangerous microbes from spilling across borders
MIT Sloan Management Review (December 4, 2024): Looking beyond AI, many of our top 10 stories involve tough culture and people management challenges, like dealing with the informal meetings that happen after formal meetings (No. 2) and getting people to stop self-censoring with company leaders (No. 5). These two stories, by Phillip G. Clampitt and Jim Detert, respectively, truly struck a nerve with readers. At a time of radical change, communication and trust have never been more important.
Midlevel leaders are critical to fostering an organizational culture that’s healthy and vibrant.
In this brief video, learn what the latest research and current examples say about return-to-office mandates — and what leaders can do instead to boost productivity and retain talent.
Get beyond job candidates’ pat answers to hiring managers’ standard queries by recasting questions to elicit thoughtful responses.
To get the most from hybrid work, leaders should prepare for trade-offs, make expectations clear, and think harder about how productivity is measured.
Managers must make deliberate choices to support older workers’ use of complex technologies.
Most people know what can’t be said in their organization. But leaders can apply these techniques to break through the unwritten rules that make people self-censor.
Your organization’s highest-performing employees want executives to focus on outcomes and accountability, not office badge swipes.
This artificial intelligence and business strategy report looks at how organizations are using AI to evolve their key performance indicators to better align with their strategies and deliver on enterprise goals.
Leaders must encourage respectful debate during meetings and use related strategies to avoid toxic post-meeting dynamics.
These developing issues should be on every leader’s radar screen, data executives say.
Study participants rated fictional scientists who admitted their own knowledge gaps as more credible.
Neighbouring cells bolster the immune cells’ tumour-fighting abilities.
The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just offshore.
Relatively warm regions of the object called Makemake could also be explained by a dusty planetary ring.
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A multifunctional metamaterial can change shape and steer light simultaneously
Footprints in Kenya show that hominin bipedalism had a complex evolutionary history
Stimulating certain brain cells in mice seems to ease anxiety without causing hallucination-like effects.
A pall of smoke from burning cropland each year decreases rainfall in the annual monsoon.
Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating neurological disorders.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to scrutinize proven vaccines and slash staff at research and regulatory agencies
$1 billion SinoProbe II will map the depths with drill rigs and instrument arrays
The tools Glaze and Nightshade are giving artists hope that they can fight back against AI that hoovers internet data to train. Are they enough?
A new system could help train robots entirely in generated worlds.
Rapid advances in applying artificial intelligence to simulations in physics and chemistry have some people questioning whether we will even need quantum computers at all.
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An immune cell treatment that fights cancer is now taking aim at autoimmune disease
Piecing together the body’s cellular puzzle
Oil palm plantations replace diverse tropical forests with monocultures, but restoration can bring biodiversity and ecosystem services back to these highly modified landscapes.
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