India on the verge of eliminating 'black fever' kala-azar
Kala-azar, also called visceral leishmaniasis, is the second deadliest parasitic disease after malaria, affecting 200 million people in dozens of countries.
30/01/2024 Deutsche Welle
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What Canada can learn from Ireland on citizen engagement to bolster democracy
As Canada’s nearest neighbour grapples with serious attacks on democracy, a fresh approach to citizen engagement in Canada is an exciting prospect, worthy of serious consideration.
29/01/2024 The Conversation
Will we ever be able to have a conversation with animals?
The arrival of AI has turned expectations on their head when it comes to achieving complex communication with other species, and makes it possible to analyze their sounds, movements and behaviors to a degree of precision previously unthinkable
26/01/2024 El País
‘It beats getting stoned on the street’: how Portugal decriminalised drugs – as seen from the ‘shoot-up centre’
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
Cameroon starts world-first malaria mass vaccine rollout
The world's first routine vaccine programme against malaria has started in Cameroon, in a move projected to save thousands of children's lives across Africa. The symbolic first jab was given to a baby girl named Daniella at a health facility near…
22/01/2024 BBC
First ever space-to-Earth solar power mission succeeds
A landmark test of beaming solar power to Earth from a satellite has concluded successfully after a year-long mission.
18/01/2024 The Independent
4 ways megacities are tackling air pollution
Air pollution kills millions of people each year, especially in the world's biggest cities. But it can get better! Here's how megacities around the world are making their air cleaner and safer.
11/01/2024 Deutsche Welle
Scientists test world-first Nipah virus vaccine
Oxford scientists are assessing whether the technology behind their Covid-19 jab could be used to protect people from the deadly Nipah virus. If clinical trials are successful it would be the first ever vaccine for the disease.
11/01/2024 The Independent
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Why Humans Are Putting a Bunch of ‘Coal’ and ‘Oil’ Back in the Ground
Startups are processing plant waste into concentrated carbon to be buried or injected underground. It’s like fossil fuels, but in reverse.
10/01/2024 Wired
Kenya's push to make 'boda-boda' motorbike taxis go electric
The government wants Kenya's three million motorbike taxi riders to go green but only a few have done so.
07/01/2024 BBC
There Was Never Such a Thing as ‘Open’ AI
At the turn of the century, when the modern web was just emerging and Microsoft was king, a small but growing technology movement posed an existential threat to the company.
04/01/2024 The Atlantic
Solar panel breakthrough harnesses wasted light to boost efficiency
Scientists have discovered a way to significantly boost the efficiency of solar panels by harnessing previously unused parts of the light spectrum.
04/01/2024 The Independent
The race to destroy the toxic ‘forever chemicals’ polluting our world
“Forever chemicals” are in our drinking water sources, sea foam and spray, rain and groundwater, sea ice, and even human blood – so now efforts are increasing to detect, remove and destroy them.
04/01/2024 The Guardian
Scientists hail new antibiotic that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
Scientists have discovered an entirely new class of antibiotic that appears to kill one of three bacteria considered to pose the greatest threat to human health because of their extensive drug-resistance.
03/01/2024 The Guardian
Treatment for acute sleeping sickness has been brutal — until now
An oral drug is proving an effective treatment for the acute strain of this potentially fatal disease — an alternative to injections of drugs that posed serious risks to the patient.
02/01/2024 NPR
