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What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?

...technology more viable, it also provides an environmental advantage: methane is a harmful greenhouse gas. This is by no means the only use for waste coffee grounds. As a relatively pure and essentially free waste stream, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs have looked into various ways of putting it to use. Burn coffee for low-cost fuel For a few years now, Nestlé...
Seven myths of being a female engineer
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven myths of being a female engineer

...technology and bridge construction – what does an engineer look like? You don’t have to wear overalls to excel in the sector. Transcript. 3. Women are too timid to be engineers Historically, female engineers might have struggled to hold their own in a room full of male colleagues. Diana Thomas McEwen knows, first hand, that this simply isn’t the case any more. “I...
Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...technological change’s pace and scale mean a trend of changing relationships at work. This trend points to a future of increasingly automated, disaggregated forms of working (e.g., working as part of temporary teams that are geographically separate). In addition, the projected skills gaps mean that there will be an increasing need for employees to retrain throughout...
Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes
Science, Maths & Technology

Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes

...Technologies, and are able to track asteroids as they move across the sky each night. Since the publication of this article, the observatories have undergone a significant upgrade. For an up-to-date list of technical details, please visit our specifications page here. Using these telescopes, we study the properties and compositions of asteroid surfaces to characterise...
Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...technologies can be considered entirely ‘safe’ for a wide audience. ChatGPT responds to prompts from users by using the relationships calculated during the training process to construct a linguistically accurate response. Whilst LLMs are sometimes said to use statistics to ‘predict the next word’ in their response; in actuality the process is much more complex...
Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...technologies like artificial snowmaking. [An image of a competitive skier in a crouching position, taken from side-on. In the near background is a sloping, snowy hill. The skier is carrying sports equipment on their back.] The moving of the games to January is also one of the conclusions from a research note written by Daniel Scott, Robert Steiger and Madeleine Orr that...
The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...technologies, changes in schedules, and additional support with certain types of tasks. This approach to accommodations recognises the social model of disability, which focuses on removing barriers for people and recognises that such barriers can be disabling. When it comes to ADHD, the application of such adaptations can sometimes overly emphasise enabling the person to...
Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub

...technology and a multi-generational workforce. It is no wonder that many people feel demotivated and disconnected, with lower wellbeing and performance at work. In developing this hub, we want to help answer questions around how psychology can help: How important is the application of psychology in the workplace during such turbulent times, and in moving forward? What can...