The months of September to May are an unfortunate season in South Africa: malaria season. The mosquito-borne disease is found in the north-eastern districts of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces. There are fewer malaria cases in South…
19/08/2024 The Conversation
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
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
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
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
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
It was the midst of a July heatwave, with humidity sticky in the air. Phoebe Saldana sat in the colorful plaza of her East Harlem housing complex, watching her two young daughters ride scooters and climb on workout equipment.
13/08/2024 The Guardian
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Feeding bees edible bits of hydrogel increases their odds of surviving pesticide exposure by 30 per cent
13/09/2024 NewScientist
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
The event in Birmingham comes after the team finished second in the medal table with a total of 124.
13/09/2024 BBC
Access to safe drinking water — and its equitable distribution — underpins public health. But for the estimated 250,000 people in Kibera, who live without any government infrastructure, clean water is often a luxury. A system that uses aerial pipes…
13/08/2024 Undark Magazine
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