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Grand Designs’ best, worst and downright disastrous builds as the show celebrates 25th anniversary

Grand Designs is celebrating 25 years of some of the most ambitious and innovative builds to ever take place on British soil. Since 1999, host Kevin McCloud has joined homeowners as they turn their property dreams into a reality – and sometimes…

14/09/2024 The Independent

Going once, going twice: Google's millisecond ad auctions are the focus of monopoly claim

A ongoing trial may determine whether Google holds an illegal monopoly on the technology used to buy and sell certain types of advertising on web pages

14/09/2024 The Independent

At Africa’s Guggenheim Museum: 120 tribes and 1,500 artists exhibit the heritage of a continent in Arusha

The Cultural Heritage Center in Arusha — a city that’s the tourist epicenter of Tanzania — hosts one of the largest art exhibitions on the continent. Among its treasures is the family tree of life, ‘Ujamaa,’ a sculpture that took 20 years to make

14/09/2024 El País

Murui Buue, a language that lives through song, a form of resistance in the jungle

Zoila Ochoa leads the struggle to preserve the words and customs of her people, who have been rocked by extractivist fever in the Peruvian Amazon

14/09/2024 El País

A roof over their head, English lessons and job training: Denver offers another model for migrants

After receiving 42,000 people bused in by Texas and spending $72 million to shelter them, Colorado’s capital is shifting its focus to a program that integrates asylum seekers into the community as soon as they receive their work permits

14/09/2024 El País

‘Bipolar, colour and me’ - an artist’s spreadsheet of emotion

How using colour to track his bipolar disorder allowed artist Joseph Awuah-Darko to express his emotions.

14/09/2024 BBC

NASA prepares to head back to the moon.

This time next year, if everything stays on schedule, NASA will send its first crewed mission to the moon, since the end of the Apollo program. Artemis II will be the first flight around the moon in more than 50 years.Its goal will be to test out…

14/09/2024 NPR

Polaris Dawn mission is one giant leap for private space exploration

The success of the all-civilian spacewalk on SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission shows that private space flight is starting to catch up with government space agencies

14/09/2024 NewScientist

A landslide linked to climate change ‘rang’ the Earth for 9 days, researchers say

The scale of the geological event is like something from prehistoric times, with a tsunami 200 meters--656 feet--in height. But it happened last year. Researchers warn that similar events may reoccur.

13/09/2024 NPR

Being distracted doesn’t mean you have ADHD: The danger of self-diagnosis in teenagers

In the fight to raise awareness about this disorder, it has become normal to talk about it, but experts warn that, in practice, the problem can end up being trivialized

13/09/2024 El País

Australia, a biodiversity hotspot, recognizes 750 new species

Australia has added 750 new species of plants, animals, fungi and other organisms to its official list of species living on the continent.

13/09/2024 NPR

Gilead’s biannual HIV shot reduced risk of infections by 96 percent, company says

Drugmaker Gilead Science announced Thursday that its biannual injections to prevent against HIV had slashed the risk of infection from the virus by a staggering 96 percent.

13/09/2024 The Independent

Diego Hidalgo: ‘Banning the sale of phones to teenagers would empower parents’

He is a sociologist and a magician, and spends his life warning about the risks of a screen addiction that ‘makes us unhappy.’ At home, he leads by example: his mobile phone is an old Nokia without internet access

13/09/2024 El País

Antidote to deadly pesticides boosts bee survival

Feeding bees edible bits of hydrogel increases their odds of surviving pesticide exposure by 30 per cent

13/09/2024 NewScientist

Friday the 13th: Why are we so superstitious?

One of the main motivations of the human mind is to find associations between events that will allow us to anticipate reality. Our cognitive system is allergic to ambiguity and uncertainty

13/09/2024 El País

Paralympics GB team celebrate at homecoming event

The event in Birmingham comes after the team finished second in the medal table with a total of 124.

13/09/2024 BBC

Climate change makes farming easier in Alaska. Indigenous growers hope to lead the way

Climate change threatens many traditional foods in Alaska. But it’s also making farming more possible. A new training program aims to help Alaska Native communities grow more of their own food.

13/09/2024 NPR

Meta to begin training AI on public posts from UK Facebook and Instagram users

The scheme will see public posts from UK adults posted to the platforms used to train the firm’s AI models, unless users opt out.

13/09/2024 The Independent