As we try to strike a balance between tackling climate change, promoting healthy diets, and the challenges of making a living for farmers, one thing is clear: Sustainable agriculture is the only way forward. These three grand challenges cover the three dimensions of sustainability (social, environmental and economic). The real question is; Are we working… Read More »
The iconic V-finger sign, commonly used to represent peace, is a gesture people often use when posing for photos. However, a video widely shared on WhatsApp and other social media networks warns people against its use. The clip claims that crooks can use the images to take high-quality copies of their fingerprints, which they can… Read More »
The retraction of three peer-reviewed papers featured in court cases about the so-called abortion pill (mifepristone) has brought a group of papers by anti-abortion researchers into the spotlight of scholarly attention. Seventeen sexual and reproductive health researchers are calling for the retraction or modification of four peer-reviewed studies by anti-abortion researchers. Critics claim the papers… Read More »
A group called Russia’s Reborn Cyber Army posted a video on its Telegram channel on January 18 showing them manipulating the controls of water tanks at the Texas water authority. Specifically, they turned on water pumps by remotely changing water level indicators, causing a reservoir to overflow in the small town of Muleshoe. The town… Read More »
It’s 5.30am on a damp Thursday morning in Brecon, Powys, and as the sun rises over Pen-y-Fan, the barn at Tylebrythos farm is bustling with activity. About 20 sheep lie on hay, their newborn lambs bleating around them, while farmer Stella Phillips, 42, helps out by bottle-feeding some of the weakest sheep. As we watch,… Read More »
New England’s abandoned stone walls are as iconic of the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and autumn leaves. They seem to be everywhere; a lattice of dry, lichen-encrusted stone ridges separating a patch of otherwise moist soil. Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but in New England… Read More »
Violent explosions shake the evening sky. The streaks of light look like comets. Missiles are raining down. Below, people are scrambling to hide. The wounded are carried on stretchers, the dead are buried. This is daily life in Ukraine, where pilotless vehicles known as drones fill the skies in an endless video game-like – but… Read More »
The USA and China are in a race to develop the most advanced submarines. Chinese researchers say they have made a breakthrough in laser propulsion technology that could one day be used in submarines and missiles. A laser propulsion expert at McGill University told Business Insider that they saw flaws in the claims. Submarines have… Read More »
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the African continent heavily reliant on agriculture are looking to the past and the future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the world’s youngest population, faces the worst impacts of a warming planet while contributing least… Read More »
It’s our galaxy’s strangest star, a flickering orb of light whose erratic and unpredictable output has baffled astronomers for years. But now the study of Boyajian’s star is being touted as a research model that could help one of the most intriguing of scientific investigations: the finding of intelligent life on other worlds. This is… Read More »