ARS®/Rescue Rooter® Donates More Than 1.2 Million Dollars to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®
Donations like these support St. Jude doctors and scientists as they pioneer cures for cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases. Through branch donations, sales events, employee giving, direct mail campaigns, and event sponsorships, generous ARS customers and employees have raised more than $5.4 million for St. Jude since the partnership began in 2018. Partnerships like […]
How Robots Are Redefining Health Care: 6 Recent Innovations
Medical robots are helping healthcare professionals provide smarter, more comprehensive care to their patients. The healing process can be long and emotionally exhausting, especially when nurses and healthcare teams are spread so thin. Medical robots can help fill in the gaps and transform the healing process for patients and caretakers alike. Some incredible innovations […]
Animal sounds are a marvel of evolution. We can’t afford to drown them out.
Earth can be a noisy place. Humans are especially efficient at filling the environment with sounds, from speech to music to heavy machinery. Plenty of other creatures contribute to the global soundscape as well: crickets trill, birds chirp, wolves howl, and whales sing their low, mournful-sounding songs. It’s easy to take these sounds for granted […]
Meet the 20-Something Taking on Nigeria’s Energy Poverty Crisis
Imagine not being able to flick on a kettle when you’re craving a cup of tea. Or having to study for your upcoming exams in the darkness. Many communities don’t have to imagine this, for them it’s a reality, and this reality is known as “energy poverty”. This form of poverty, which is the lack […]
Liverpool’s Water Supply.
Liverpool’s Water Supply. Liverpool, England, stands foremost among the cities of the world in the extent and completeness of its supply. No matter how extensive an epidemic of contagious disease may become, the citizens of this great English seaport rest secure in the fact that their drinking water is beyond the reach of contamination from […]
Masks optional at Chicago Public Schools starting Monday
CHICAGO (CBS)– Masks will be optional for all students and staff at Chicago Public Schools starting Monday. CPS officials said overnight, since they sent out the “mask optional” notice to students and staff last week, the COVID positivity rate within schools has gone down even further. Cps officials said cases in schools and throughout the […]
Indoor Air Quality Matters to Employees and Customers
The coronavirus pandemic has left the majority of North Americans feeling anxious about entering buildings they believe may have poor indoor air quality (IAQ), according to a new survey from Ambius. The survey of 3,000 U.S. and Canadian adults discovered that 76% would consider joining the “Great Resignation” if their employees did not guarantee wellness […]
Shower block provided in Canterbury township under boil water notice
Some Springfield residents are using a Selwyn District Council-supplied portable shower as their water situation remains stagnant. A precautionary boil water notice remains in place, after being introduced on February 5. District council group manager infrastructure Murray Washington said the notice remained in place due to discolouration of the water, and the portable four-shower unit […]
Texas A&M at Qatar hosts student engineering innovation
Students participating in the contest. Doha: Students from Texas A&M University at Qatar and other Qatar Foundation partner universities recently spent 48 hours designing, building and presenting ideas and technologies of benefit to the world during Invent for the Planet 2022, an international engineering innovation competition. Organised and hosted by Texas A&M University’s main campus […]
The differences between COVID-19, flu, allergies and colds
When a sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, or cough appear, you might ask yourself, “Do I have COVID-19, the flu, allergies or a cold?” And since all these illnesses share some similar symptoms, it’s hard to know the difference. To know for certain, you need to set up an appointment with your doctor and […]