This is what happens usually in India: a politician wakes up and launches a cleanliness “drive” with fanfare. They ostentatiously start sweeping a street and speak solemnly about civic duty while the media take photos.
04/04/2025 The Guardian
Perched on top of Santorini's sheer cliffs is a world-famous tourist industry worth millions. Underneath is the fizzing risk of an almighty explosion. A huge ancient eruption created the dreamy Greek island, leaving a vast crater and a horse-shoe…
21/04/2025 BBC
The BBQ smokehouse brand, which was acquired by Greene King in 2022, has said it sees a ‘substantial opportunity’ to grow despite sector challenges.
21/04/2025 The Independent
Wind and solar have already reduced the reliance on foreign gas imports in recent years, experts said, as Labour’s clean power push ramps up.
21/04/2025 The Independent
Little Moons co-founder Vivien Wong said manufacturers around the world were racing to replicate the sweet treat.
21/04/2025 The Independent
A CSIRO study has found 39% less plastic pollution in and around Australian coastal cities over ten years. It also found more places with no rubbish at all.
03/04/2025 The Conversation
Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size – from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of an eagle.
20/04/2025 The Conversation
In an increasingly fragmented society, even a bumper sticker can be a subtle form of moral positioning.
20/04/2025 The Conversation
Warm air rises, but it also expands because air pressure decreases with height. The latter effect wins out and air becomes colder in the mountains.
20/04/2025 The Conversation
The river’s health has been suffering, with a number of harrowing mass fish deaths events taking place in recent years.
20/04/2025 The Conversation
Australia leads the world in community-based needle programs. Yet they’re not used in prisons – which are hotspots for hepatitis C infection.
20/04/2025 The Conversation
A body from which only a tooth and three vertebrae remained was sexed by Weizmann Institute scientists based on proteins, with an unexpected result
20/04/2025 Haaretz
It is another example of the parallel worlds in the music industry. The the Gallagher brothers may be taking over the world’s stadiums this summer, but over on TikTok users are moving to a different beat.
20/04/2025 The Guardian
150 years ago, the world agreed to a shared language of measurement. It still holds us together, even when everything else seems to pull us apart.
20/04/2025 The Conversation
Few young people remain in Bolivia’s highland plateau, the Altiplano. The rising frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as drought and frost, have reduced their economic prospects and migration has accelerated as the environment…
20/04/2025 The Guardian
By understanding the churning region near singularities, physicists hope they might be able to reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics.
20/04/2025 Wired
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