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North Shore beach boosts shark monitoring after 2024 sightings
WCVB Channel 5 Boston - Massachusetts
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July 8, 2025
One popular beach on the Massachusetts North Shore is taking extra precautions to keep visitors and staff safe after a series of shark sightings in 2024. In September 2024, multiple juvenile great white sharks, following bait fish, were spotted...
The silent cost of hearing loss and how to slow it down
Newsroom
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July 8, 2025
He describes them as “hard-headed deniers” but spends a lot of time thinking about how he can win them over. James Whittaker wants to improve hearing health in New Zealand and a big part of that is convincing the deniers that wearing hearing aids...
Which Ohio university ranks No. 1 in world for polymer science, plastics engineering?
Cleveland.com - Ohio
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July 3, 2025
AKRON, Ohio – The University of Akron is ranked No. 1 in the world for polymer science and plastics engineering, according to recent rankings from EduRank.org. The rankings are based on universities’ research performance in polymer science and...
MIT researchers develop membrane that can fractionate crude oil without heating
The Chemical Engineer
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MIT RESEARCHERS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a membrane they believe could replace energy-intensive distillation processes to fractionate crude oil in refineries. The researchers used interfacial polymerisation –...
Massachusetts RMV receives AAMVA awards for community service and technology innovation
Bay State News - Massachusetts
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July 1, 2025
Monica G. Tibbits-Nutt, Secretary | Massachusetts Department of TransportationMonica G. Tibbits-Nutt, Secretary | Massachusetts Department of Transportation The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) has been recognized by the American...
Worcesteria: Bright lights, big city UFO reports Margaret Smith
Wicked Local - Massachusetts
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A report by Stacker names Worcester as the state's No. 2 city for UFO sightings. World UFO Day draws attention to an interest in unidentified flying objects. Claims of UFOS and alien encounters has led to a flourishing of conventions, festivals...
MFA Boston Restitutes Two Gifted Artifacts to Kingdom of Benin
Art in America
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July 3, 2025
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has returned two works of art to the Kingdom of Benin after 12 years in its collection. The transfer was coordinated and facilitated by Dr. Arese Carrington, a member of the MFA’s Board of Advisors, who called the...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Claire Cronin Appointed Scholar in Residence at UMass Amherst
UMass Amherst
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AMHERST, Mass. — The Honorable Claire Cronin, who served as U.S. ambassador to Ireland from 2022 to 2025, has joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst at its Mount Ida Campus in Newton, Massachusetts. Image Claire D. Cronin Cronin, who was...
Japanese BDS Activists Are Ramping Up Their Campaign Against a Robotics Company
Truthout
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July 8, 2025
Part of the Series Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! Japan is a great geographical distance from Israel’s killing fields in Gaza. But the nature of the global supply chain is bringing...
MIT and Mass General Hospital researchers find disparities in organ allocation
MIT
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July 3, 2025
In 1954, the world’s first successful organ transplant took place at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in the form of a kidney donated from one twin to the other. At the time, a group of doctors and scientists had correctly theorized that the...
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts Welcomes New Board Member
The Boston Sun - Massachusetts
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July 3, 2025
Special to the Sun Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts (BBBSEM), New England’s largest Big Brothers Big Sisters affiliate, is pleased to welcome Andrew Graff, of Boston, to its Board of Directors. This addition follows the recent...
BCC Research Releases 2024 Medical Devices Market Research Review
MENAFN
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July 3, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) "Exploring the Dynamic Growth and Regulatory Evolution of the Global Medical Device Industry: A Comprehensive Analysis of Market Trends, Technological Advancements, and Emerging Opportunities in the Post-COVID-19 Era" BOSTON,...
Jeff Chow of Miro shares how team intelligence drives better product-building at TechCrunch All Stage
TechCrunch
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July 8, 2025
AI can help your team move faster — but only if your team knows how to move together. Join Jeff Chow, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Miro, for a roundtable sessions at TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station, where...
TSA Policies Become Slightly Less Stupid
Reason Magazine
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July 8, 2025
The TSA ends its stupidest rule ever after 20 years of pointlessness: The Transportation Security Administration has started to phase out its rule requiring travelers to take off their shoes before going through security after, oh, just 20 years...
Boston Consulting Group Names Yasushi Sasaki as Next Asia Pacific Chair
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 1, 2025
PRNewswire Tokyo [Japan], July 1: Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world's leading management consulting firms, today announced that Yasushi Sasaki has been appointed the firm's next Asia Pacific Chair, effective July 1, 2025. Sasaki is...
Neo-Industrial Biomanufacturing Poised to Transform Biotech
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News
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July 3, 2025
Despite the massive improvements in scale-up enabled by single-use bioreactors and a scale-out philosophy, going from process development scale to larger bioreactors remains tricky. That’s especially true when responsibilities are transferred...
What our cicada visitors can tell us about the environment — and ourselves
Courier-Journal - Kentucky
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Periodical cicadas, Brood XIV, emerge in parts of the eastern U.S. every 17 years. Scientists study cicadas to understand their unique life cycle, timekeeping abilities, and response to climate change. Cicadas impact the ecosystem and human...
11 companies with research jobs you can apply to right now
Silicon Republic
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July 3, 2025
If you are in the market for a new role in the research space, but don’t know where to start, look no further than these exciting companies. A career in research is a great opportunity to work on the topics and challenges that most appeal to you,...
Great White Shark tracker LIVE: Huge 14ft shark mapped after tourist warning
Devon Live
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July 8, 2025
Users across the globe can follow the movements of the world's largest great white shark - which has already covered an epic 1,870 miles. Scientists at OCEARCH, a non-profit organisation that researches large marine animals, have been tracking...
Two Kids from Greensboro—Boston Gilmer (13) and Brianna Hood (9)—to Represent North Carolina at the 2025 Breakthrough T1D Children’s Congress, from July 7-9 in Washington, D.C.
Yes Weekly - North Carolina
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They will join 170 kids from across the U.S. and five other countries in meetings with Members of Congress to advocate for type 1 diabetes (T1D) research Boston Gilmer Greensboro, North Carolina, June 27, 2025. Boston Gilmer, a rising...