Despite the ongoing pandemic good things happen every month. Hence in the tradition of the year in review we like to remind you of three randomly selected news articles of each month.
Doctors in Europe, India and Israel have begun using a medical gun that spins out a protective web to cover burns and wounds, hoping the breathable “skin substitute” will help patients recover without the need for painful bandage changes.
04/01/2021 The Guardian
Reintroduction of ‘keystone species’ will control populations of prey species and boost biodiversity, UN says
17/02/2021 The Independent
Some campaigns take years, even decades to achieve change. Not for Skye Neville, a 10-year-old girl from a Welsh seaside town who in November became outraged at the cheap plastic toys that came attached to her favourite magazines.
23/03/2021 The Guardian
Flying into Egypt in early February to make the most important presentation of his life, Ties van der Hoeven prepared by listening to the podcast 13 Minutes To The Moon – the story of how Nasa accomplished the lunar landings.
20/03/2021 The Guardian
The country’s efforts to reduce the loss of tropical forests will have an impact not just domestically but for the whole world
14/04/2021 The Independent
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate was cut from a photo with Greta Thunberg leaving only white people. It was an event that would hurtle her to global fame. She spoke to Abdi Latif Dahir
14/05/2021 The Independent
More and more employers are trying to increase the diversity of their staff – and rightly so. A recent report from management consulting firm McKinsey found that greater diversity within an organisation leads to greater productivity and profit, and…
19/05/2021 The Conversation
The psychedelic drug MDMA, also called ecstasy or Molly, showed promise in a late-stage clinical trial for people with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), inching the drug closer to medical approval for the condition, The New York Times…
05/05/2021 LiveScience
In Europe, engineers are planning to send a plywood-sheathed satellite into orbit to test how well the venerable construction material holds up in space.
17/06/2021 NPR
Conventional electric street lights not only use up energy - they're also a source of light pollution, affect local biodiversity and can reduce quality of life for city dwellers. A new design for a wind- powered, motion-detecting street light might…
15/07/2021 Reset.org
Billions of people around the world regularly eat insects but they're not commonly found in Western diets
15/07/2021 The Independent
When authoritarian regimes clamp down on freedoms, academics are often the first targets. Now, suppressed academics have teamed with international universities to create a platform that allows their voice to continue to be heard.
16/07/2021 Reset.org
Nearly a century of leaded gasoline use on roads around the world has come to an end, the UN Environment Programme announced Monday, after Algerian service stations stopped selling the fuel last month.
30/08/2021 CNN
The legislation, endorsed in a referendum, will also allow same-sex couples to use sperm banks and to adopt children for the first time.
26/09/2021 New York Times
TikTok is bringing attention to gender creative parenting, a style of parenting that allows children to discover and express gender freely.
21/10/2021 USA Today
Adults in Luxembourg will be permitted to grow up to four cannabis plants in their homes or gardens under laws that will make it the first country in Europe to legalise production and consumption of the drug.
22/10/2021 The Guardian
Planting millions of trees is part of the national recovery from the 1994 genocide, when 800,000 people were killed.
10/11/2021 New Statesman
The NHS has been given the green light to offer people living with HIV the first "long-acting injectable" to keep the virus at bay. Charities have hailed the "incredible news" which offers an alternative to adults living with HIV who have to take…
18/11/2021 The Independent
Prof. Moran Bercovici and Dr. Valeri Frumkin developed cheap technology for making optic lenses, with the potential to produce glasses for developing nations where many have no access to them. Now, NASA says it could be used to make space telescopes
11/12/2021 Haaretz
