A water-saving irrigation system revived Iraqi farmer Mohammed Sami’s crops — and hopes. After four years of drought, Iraqi farmer Mohammed Sami was about to abandon his father’s parched land, but then a water-saving irrigation system revived his crops and his hopes. He is among hundreds of farmers in the country battered by heat waves, … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Education drives economic growth and individual well-being. Secondary education, in particular, plays a crucial role. In recent decades, this recognition has encouraged several African countries to make secondary education free. One example is Ghana’s Free Public Senior High School (FreeSHS) policy, initiated in 2017. The policy aimed to remove cost barriers … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Australia has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to halt and reverse biodiversity loss through ambitious law and policy reform. The federal government is currently rewriting our national environmental laws and updating the overarching Strategy for Nature. The updated strategy will include, among other things, goals for the restoration of degraded areas. Part of … Read more
by F.D. Flam, Bloomberg Opinion Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Although life can seem to go whizzing by, humans are actually weirdly long-lived animals. A new study helps explain why: menopause. The fact that female humans lose fertility while still remaining vigorous and strong is extremely rare—most other animals keep reproducing until they are near death. … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Experiments in the weightless environment of space have led to “crazy progress” in the fight against cancer, NASA officials said at a recent event highlighting an important and personal initiative of US President Joe Biden. Space is “a unique place for research,” astronaut Frank Rubio said at the event in Washington. … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain March Madness—the time when the best men’s and women’s college basketball teams challenge each other—is a made-for-television spectacle watched by millions. While March Madness has been around for decades, one of the tournament’s biggest changes happened in 2018, when the Supreme Court struck down the ban on sports betting. Since then, … Read more
by Eric Vanderduys, Adam McKeown, Chris R. Pavey, John Martin and Peter Caley, The Conversation Grey-headed flying foxes sleep and socialise during the day but are often well aware of approaching humans. Credit: Adam McKeown, CSIRO Flying foxes, or fruit bats, are familiar to many Australians. So it may come as a surprise to learn … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Pangolins are fascinating creatures known for their unique appearance and distinctive scales. They are mammals belonging to the order Pholidota and are native to Africa and Asia. Due to their primary diet of ants and termites, pangolins are often referred to as “scaly anteaters”. The African pangolin species are dispersed throughout … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain It’s an uncomfortable truth: Jon Stewart and Donald Trump both tapped the same well of latent public disaffection with politics and the media in the 2000s. Trust in media and government had been declining for several decades. But the symbiotic relationship between the White House and the press during the Iraq … Read more
A virtual broadcasting map can have a significant impact on quantum information processing. Credit: Fractal Hassan/Unsplash In a new study, scientists propose the concept of “virtual quantum broadcasting,” which provides a workaround to the longstanding no-cloning theorem, thereby offering new possibilities for the transmission of quantum information. The study, published in Physical Review Letters, outlines … Read more
