Apple Fitness Chief Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture and Harassment Summary Jay Blahnik, Apple’s vice-president for fitness technologies and credited creator of the Apple Watch “Close Your Rings” feature, is…
Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity Summary Entrepreneur and product executive Elliot Smith argues that LinkedIn’s engagement-driven algorithm systematically elevates shallow, over-produced posts above substantive professional discourse. The platform treats likes, comments…
Americans’ Junk-Filled Garages Are Hurting EV Adoption, Study Says Summary A Slashdot post summarises an Ars Technica report on a market-research study by Telemetry VP Sam Abuelsamid that identifies home…
Small, affordable undergraduate research programmes changed my career and strengthen US science. Why cut them? Summary Dan Seaton recounts how a small summer research programme in 1999 — part of…
Summary Professor JoAnn Trejo, a Mexican American research leader at the University of California, San Diego, reflects on her journey from a modest background to a successful career in biomedical…
Battery prices are falling, so why are electric cars still so expensive? Summary This Nature comment (19 August 2025) by Lucas Woodley, Chung Yi See and Ashley Nunes examines why…
China’s hydropower megaproject breaks ground Summary On 19 July, Chinese premier Li Qiang announced the launch of a project to build what would be the world’s largest hydropower station on…
ORCID launched more than a decade ago, but has yet to fulfil its potential Summary ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) began in 2012 to give researchers a persistent 16-digit…
RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no Summary US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr requested the retraction of a large Danish study that…
Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work Summary An analysis of 18,400 articles and 37,000 reviews from four open-access platforms (F1000Research, Wellcome Open Research, Gates…
