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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...research about the potential of Indigenous ceremonies and festivals to making a better world. Many people are overwhelmed by despair when faced with the enormity of Climate Change and other global challenges. This can even be exacerbated by the magnitude of some of the proposed solutions, especially the most ambitious technical ones. Something needs to intervene between...
Melanoma: an emerging concern
Health, Sports & Psychology

Melanoma: an emerging concern

...emerging concern among all individuals, with increasing incidence rates and significant morbidity and mortality. Early detection, prompt treatment, and preventive measures are critical in managing melanoma. Continued research and public health efforts are needed to address the unique challenges posed by melanoma and to reduce the burden of this potentially deadly disease....
Are we taking the fun out of reading?
Education & Development

Are we taking the fun out of reading?

...researcher found that the children’s section of the library was designed as an extension of a school space. Support for children’s school work was the key aim of the space, as the librarians explained and as was evident from the presence of reading scheme books, educational posters about the benefits of reading or workbooks. Mothers dutifully seemed to bring their...
Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs

...research, Dawson might have traced briefly the early nineteenth-century roots of paleontology from the pioneering work of either Mary Anning or Gideon Mantell to Owen. In so doing, he would have provided readers with a parallel commentary on the historical and cultural influences that shaped the lives and careers of both Dickens and Owen. Though serial publication of...
Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one
Science, Maths & Technology

Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one

...researchers working for the networking company Cisco, warned that more than half a million routers in 54 countries had been infected by malware known as VPNFilter. Routers allow computers on local area networks to connect to the internet; you will have a small router (properly known as a modem router switch) at home to link your computer to a phone socket; and it is...
Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System

...research facilities that minimise their exposure to the terrestrial atmosphere. But going into space is expensive, and technically challenging. The OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa missions are some of the first to attempt returning rocky samples to Earth since humans went to the Moon some fifty years ago. Meteorites often come from asteroids, but they can also come from planets...
Why do we keep running?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do we keep running?

...research, but loosely defined, “sport” has been recorded since the beginning of documented history (The Epic of Gilgamesh from 3,500 years ago recounts scenes of wrestling and hunting) and it has been a regular mainstay of literature since then. But, exercise, as we might recognise it, being movement for the purposes of maintaining physical health, only becomes common...
How do microplastics make their way into our food?
Nature & Environment

How do microplastics make their way into our food?

...be the largest global reservoir of microplastics The use of sewage sludge in agriculture in the UK is regulated by the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1263/made Listen to this BBC Inside Science episode discussing the new research trying to find the sources of the microplastics that are accumulating in UK riverbed...