- Joining a bucky ball with a nanometer sized diamond gives rise to a nano-material with rectifier properties allowing current to flow in only one direction http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140909093835.htm 21 comments science
- Americans tend to underestimate the material benefits associated with unionization. When they are informed about the actual benefits associated with unionization (e.g. the income premium, health and dental insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave), they express greater interest in joining a union https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2321025121 144 comments science
- The Critical Minerals Club. The US and allies aim to sidestep reliance on China for the materials needed for clean tech and advanced defense gear. Washington has been joining forces with allies to secure new supplies, including through the Mineral Security Partnership (MSP). https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/14/us-china-critical-mineral-security-europe-rare-earth-energy-transition/ 13 comments futurology
- The Critical Minerals Club. The US and allies aim to sidestep reliance on China for the materials needed for clean tech and advanced defense gear. Washington has been joining forces with allies to secure new supplies. including through the Mineral Security Partnership (MSP). https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/14/us-china-critical-mineral-security-europe-rare-earth-energy-transition/ 21 comments energy
- Azure Certification(s): do the study materials exist in a joined pdf or some other such convenient format? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/users/23110622/collections/0kjyh8rn5x76j6 2 comments azure
- Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg join forces to mine for raw materials in Greenland https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/567246-jeff-bezos-bill-gates-and-michael-bloomberg-join-forces-to 396 comments worldnews
- Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg join forces to mine for raw materials in Greenland https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/567246-jeff-bezos-bill-gates-and-michael-bloomberg-join-forces-to 10 comments environment
- New Zealand thanks Canada for condemning online extremism after Christchurch attacks - Trudeau to join meeting aiming to stop terrorist material from circulating on social media https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-new-zealand-shooting-extremism-1.5131722 12 comments worldnews
- Democrats vow not to use hacked materials in campaigns, urge others to join them https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/22/politics/kirsten-gillibrand-2020-democrat-cybersecurity-pledge/index.html 13 comments politics
- HBO Joins BBC Drama Series ‘His Dark Materials’ as Co-Producer And Picks Up Worldwide Distribution Rights Outside The U.K. https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/hbo-4-1202939182/ 362 comments books
- Borophene joins 2D materials club - Graphene inspires atom-thin acolyte made from pure boron. http://www.nature.com/news/borophene-joins-2d-materials-club-1.19060?wt.mc_id=twt_naturenews#/ref-link-3 3 comments science
- Researchers block replication of AIDS virus: A multidisciplinary team of scientists has managed to design small synthetic molecules capable of joining to the genetic material of the AIDS virus and blocking its replication. This achievement has been obtained for the first time in the world. http://www.alphagalileo.org/viewitem.aspx?itemid=136867&culturecode=en 111 comments science
- The net of a polyhedron is an arrangement of edge- joined polygons in the plane which can be folded (along edges) to become the faces of the polyhedron. Polyhedral nets are used to make models of polyhedra constructed from material such as thin cardboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/net_(polyhedron) 4 comments math
- Alan Dershowitz, a legal adviser to Giuliani, hopes Trump will join court fight to block access to materials seized in FBI raid last week https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/politics/dershowitz-giuliani-trump/index.html 16 comments law
- Microbial team turns corn stalks and leaves into better biofuel: A fungus and E. coli bacteria have joined forces to turn tough, waste plant material into isobutanol, a biofuel that matches gasoline's properties better than ethanol. http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/videos/21643-microbial-team-turns-corn-stalks-and-leaves-into-better-biofuel#.uhz29uyvf3m.reddit 8 comments science
- ChatGPT for chemistry: AI and robots join forces to build new materials. Google DeepMind tool predicts nearly 400,000 stable substances, and an autonomous system learns to make them in the lab. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03745-5 7 comments science
- TIL Manipur's BJP CM was Cabinet minister in Congress government when his son shot a man for overtaking his car. Judge found no material to establish, that accused shot the man with the intention to kill and he got lesser punishment, while father was removed from minister post & later joined BJP.[P] http://indianexpress.com/article/india/manipur-bjp-spokespersons-nbiren-najay-son-found-guilty-in-2011-case-charged-with-homicide-not-amounting-to-murder-4462385/ 26 comments india