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Jan 16 2025BUSINESS

Food Delivery Gets a Boost: Grubhub & Olo Team Up

Grubhub, a popular food delivery service in the U. S. , has joined forces with Olo, a tech company that helps restaurants manage online orders. They've decided to integrate Grubhub with Olo Dispatch, a feature that lets restaurants outsource deliveries. This means restaurants can now use Grubhub dri

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Jan 16 2025SCIENCE

Sensors in Action: Making Smart Devices to Detect Chemicals

Have you ever wondered how we can spot chemicals in our environment? Enter electrochemical sensors! These clever gadgets use electricity to identify specific substances, playing a crucial role in healthcare and environmental protection. But how are these sensors made? Two common methods are screen-p

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Jan 16 2025POLITICS

Sean Duffy's Transportation Vision: Safety First, Tech in Mind

Sean Duffy, a former Congressman, is being considered for the role of Transportation Secretary by President-elect Trump. His main goal? Ensuring that America's roads and skies remain safe while embracing new technologies like drones and self-driving cars. Duffy wants to modernize the Department of T

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Jan 16 2025SCIENCE

Exploring Sugar Coatings on Proteins: What They Mean for Our Health

You know how proteins in your body can have sugar molecules attached to them? This process is called glycosylation. It's super important for things like making proteins strong and helping cells stick to each other. But sometimes, these sugar coatings can go wonky. When they do, it's linked to seriou

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Jan 16 2025HEALTH

Smooth Sailing: How Textured Titanium Surfaces Can Improve Blood Implants

Blood-contacting medical devices often trigger immune responses, leading to blood clots and cell overgrowth. Creating special textures on these devices to prevent these issues is a major challenge. Scientists have developed a unique titanium surface with tiny bumps and grooves, which are incredibly

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Jan 16 2025POLITICS

Billionaires and Trump: A New Alliance

Imagine the world's wealthiest people sitting together at Donald Trump's inauguration. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg might be there, showing their support for the new president. Musk, the richest person on the planet, has donated a lot of money to Trump's campaign. Bezos, the Amazon bos

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Jan 16 2025HEALTH

A Global Check-In: How Countries Plan to Prevent Oral Cancer

Ever wondered how countries around the globe are tackling oral and oropharyngeal cancer? A recent look into national and subnational plans from all World Health Organization Member States gives us some insights. As of March 2023, out of 194 countries, only a few had specific subnational plans, resul

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Jan 16 2025TECHNOLOGY

Safari Tech Preview Update: What You Need to Know

Apple has just dropped a fresh update for Safari Technology Preview, the test version of Safari launched back in 2016. This experimental browser lets users tinker with new features before they hit the mainstream. Version 211 comes packed with bug squashes and performance tweaks for things like Canva

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Jan 16 2025TECHNOLOGY

Samsung's New Battery Tech: A Game-Changer for Smartwatch Life

Imagine wearing a smartwatch that lasts a week, no matter how much you use it. That's what Samsung has in mind with their upcoming oxide-based batteries. These batteries are said to be safer, more efficient, and more flexible than the lithium-ion ones we use now. Samsung Electro-Mechanics, one of Sa

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Jan 15 2025SCIENCE

Flexible Fluorescent Probes: How Molecular Shape Affects Mercury Detection

You know how some molecules can twist and bend, while others stay stiff? Scientists found that this flexibility can change how certain fluorescent probes work when they detect toxic mercury (Hg²⁺) in water. They looked at two types of these probes, one with a wiggly bit (1) and one that's pretty str

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