US 'clean energy' loan for Australian plant in Louisiana

An Australian company's Louisiana subsidiary can get up to $107 million in U.S. Department of Energy loans to expand a plant that produces materials for electric car batteries the department said Monday.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-technology-news/us-clean-energy-loan-for-australian-plant-in-louisiana

Hawaiian teams with Elon Musk company for in-flight internet

Hawaiian Airlines said Monday that it will offer free wireless internet service from SpaceX's Starlink satellite network on flights between Hawaii and the U.S. mainland, Asia and Oceania.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-technology-news/hawaiian-teams-with-elon-musk-company-for-in-flight-internet

Musk-ruled Twitter: users left to fight trolls and misinformation?

Elon Musk's vow to let everyone say whatever they want on Twitter after his takeover of the social media giant could put the onus on users to combat bullying and misinformation on the platform, experts say.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-technology-news/musk-ruled-twitter-users-left-to-fight-trolls-and-misinformation

Second Amazon site in New York kicks off vote on joining union

Workers at an Amazon sorting center in New York began voting Monday on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union, which recently became the first union at the e-commerce giant in the United States.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-technology-news/second-amazon-site-in-new-york-kicks-off-vote-on-joining-union

Long COVID associated with different clinical trajectories, characteristics depending on severity of initial infection

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (23-26 April), suggests that the clinical trajectories and characteristics of long COVID may be different depending on the severity of the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Relationship quality affects depressive symptoms in African American couples

For individuals in a committed relationship, there is a well-established two-way association between relationship quality and each partner's mental health. But what exactly about relationships shapes mental health? And which direction is stronger—from mental health to relationship quality or relationship quality to mental health?