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.
Tissue taken from the African-American woman in 1951, without her consent, has been used in medical research and credited with the development of the polio vaccine.
05/01/2023 Le Monde
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California and many local governments are scrapping requirements that once made cars the center of the urban landscape.
07/01/2023 Wired
“Good job you!” shouts Pauline Bika, as a group of schoolchildren completes the hokey-cokey. “Good job me!” choruses her class. Ms Bika runs a small government primary school in Edo state, in southern Nigeria. It is reached by a mud track that…
26/01/2023 Economist
Last month, at a dining table in a sunny New York City hotel suite, I found myself thrown completely off guard by a strip of fake bacon. I was there to taste a new kind of plant-based meat, which, like most Americans, I’ve tried before but never…
23/02/2023 The Atlantic
Making steel is a dirty business. For every tonne of it some 1.8 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) are emitted into the atmosphere. As a result, steelmaking accounts for 7-9% of the world’s anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions. Cleaner ways of…
15/02/2023 Economist
It's not every day that effective fungus-killing compounds are discovered, so researchers in Germany knew their recent find needed a special name. Identifying and testing three natural compounds that proved lethal to fungi, they were so impressed…
03/03/2023 CNN
The world gets a little greyer every year. According to a paper published in 2014 concrete—an aggregate material made by mixing cement, sand and gravel—is the second-most consumed substance in the world after water.
26/04/2023 Economist
Compelling evidence supports the claims of two New Orleans high school seniors who say they have found a new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry, a respected mathematics professor said, even if the students’ “really important…
08/04/2023 The Guardian
An analysis of 30 years of monitoring data shows an upward trend in the population of insects and other invertebrates in English rivers, which may be linked to lower levels of zinc and copper
19/05/2023 NewScientist
The decision to fund medications to treat H.I.V.-AIDS patients in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean flew in the face of expert advice. But the U.S. did it anyway.
07/06/2023 New York Times
Nature is inspiring scientists all the time. Some ideas are still in research, like beaver-inspired super-warm wetsuits. But others are already part of human life, like velcro (based on burdock burrs) and the Japanese bullet train (modelled on…
12/07/2023 The Conversation
What if we could upcycle agricultural waste into a cheap, sustainable and biodegradable building material? Mycelium shows it's possible.
09/08/2023 Reset.org
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The inconvenient truth of striving for resource efficiency is that it often results in higher consumption
25/09/2023 El País
A treatment for migraine attacks which dissolves under the tongue will soon be available on the NHS in what experts say is a "step change" in care. Health experts said 13,000 people could be eligible to take it to reduce sudden and severe head pain.
14/09/2023 BBC
This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine. Sponges. Is there anything they can’t do? For millennia, humans have used dried natural sponges to clean up, to paint, and as vessels for drinking; we’ve even used them as contraceptive…
09/10/2023 The Atlantic
Peak ScotRail fares are being scrapped from Monday in a six-month trial which aims to encourage people to travel by train instead of car. The Scottish Government-funded project will allow customers to travel all day on off-peak fares from October 2…
02/10/2023 The Independent
Dogger Bank, powered by SSE, will become the UK's largest wind farm – and power over six million homes.
09/11/2023 New Statesman
A toothpaste that contains peanut proteins did not cause any serious side effects in people with an allergy to the food and showed early signs of preventing dangerous reactions
09/11/2023 NewScientist
In a series of moves experts say signal a shift in how developing countries deal with pharmaceuticals, South Africa, Colombia and others have recently adopted a more combative approach towards drugmakers, pushing back on policies that deny treatment…
24/11/2023 The Independent
Visitors walking along the river that flows through downtown Rotterdam might be surprised to see a three-tiered structure moored in the water, with a top level occupied by brown and white cows grazing on hay dropped from a conveyor belt
10/12/2023 The Independent
Chicago’s 82-story Aqua Tower appears to flutter with the wind. Its unusual, undulating facade has made it one of the most unique features of Chicago’s skyline, distinct from the many right-angled glass towers that surround it.
27/12/2023 The Guardian
