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.
Paulo picks up a lighter from the table in front of him, holds it beneath the foil-encased bowl of his thin metal pipe for a few seconds, and then inhales. For a brief moment, he falls silent, head slumped forward.
25/01/2024 The Guardian
Researchers have calculated that a new renewable energy concept could reduce the payback period for solar panels to less than five years.
12/02/2024 The Independent
Counterintuitively, a new German experiment is testing whether working less can help overcome a labour crunch.
09/03/2024 Al Jazeera
Recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) can be prevented for up to nine years with an oral spray vaccine, a “breakthrough” British trial has found. The painful bacterial infection is experienced by half of all women and one in five men, and can…
07/04/2024 The Independent
A limitless supply of heat exists beneath our feet within the Earth’s crust, but harnessing it at scale has proved challenging.
02/04/2024 The Guardian
Two new types of mosquito bed nets have been found to reduce cases of malaria by up to a half, raising hopes of combating the disease, which is becoming increasingly resistant to treatments and prevention efforts.
18/04/2024 The Guardian
Platelets help blood clot, but they have a short shelf life. With blood in short supply, synthetic platelets could help meet demand.
13/05/2024 Wired
The U.S. once looked to modular construction as an efficient way to build lots of housing at scale, but Sweden picked up the idea and put it into practice
10/06/2024 New York Times
The scientific journal ‘Nature’ has published three studies that offer a variety of recommendations to curb misinformation, such as warning advertisers so that they don’t inadvertently finance lies. Researchers have also demystified the real effects…
08/06/2024 El País
Scientists have found a simple trick that could dramatically change how our batteries perform. A lithium-ion battery, of the kind used in everything from our phones to our cars, is usually charged up soon after it is first made. That first charge is…
30/08/2024 The Independent
Workers are breaching the final dams on a key section of the Klamath River, clearing the way for salmon to swim freely through a major watershed near the California-Oregon border for the first time in more than a century as the largest dam removal…
28/08/2024 The Independent
In the fall of 1993, a ship sailed into the Pacific Ocean carrying nearly 1,000 pounds of iron crystals packed into barrels, then dumped it all into the waves. The next morning, the water was tinged a subtle green from newly sprouted phytoplankton.
20/09/2024 The Atlantic
Two rabies epidemics in animals spurred a state health emergency in Texas and a program that oversees annual mass wildlife vaccination. Millions of doses have been distributed since the ‘90s.
26/09/2024 The Conversation
Academics hope that electric wallpaper, which goes on the ceiling and is painted over, could become a ‘viable’ replacement for central heating.
17/10/2024 The Independent
China, Norway and Australia are working on different zero-emission initiatives, such as a ferry that will link Argentina and Uruguay and a freight vessel that can move 10,000 tons
04/10/2024 El País
Researchers have created the world’s thinnest spaghetti which is about 200 times thinner than a human hair. The pasta is not intended to be a new food but was created because these extremely fine strands of material – called nanofibers – could have…
21/11/2024 The Independent
Mexico, Canada and now the UK are among those offering direct financial support to homeless people. The results are encouraging
09/12/2024 Positive News
Mexico City’s mayor has never been afraid to court controversy. Clara Brugada has taken some imaginative steps in her efforts to undo decades of economic and cultural inequality in one of the capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods.
27/12/2024 The Guardian
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