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Planetary Sciences Mar 23, 2024

Fill up your gas tank and prepare to wait. Some tips to prepare for April's total solar eclipse

Stock up on groceries. Print off driving directions. And be very, very patient.

Agriculture Nov 16, 2023

Pastoralists have raised livestock in harsh climates for millennia. What can they teach us today?

The half-crescent moon glowed in the predawn Mongolia sky as Agvaantogtokh and his family began preparing for yet another big move with their animals.

Social Sciences Oct 3, 2023

Researcher: Even before deepfakes, tech was a tool of abuse and control

Of the many "profound risks to society and humanity" that have tech experts worried about artificial intelligence (AI), the spread of fake images is one that everyday internet users will be familiar with.

Astrobiology May 15, 2023

What would aliens learn if they observed the Earth? A recent study provides an answer

Are we alone in the universe? It's a question that fascinates scientists and the public alike. In science, the focus tends to be on our search for life elsewhere. The idea that we might be watched by a distant alien civilization, ...

Environment May 15, 2023

Cyclone Mocha death toll rises to 29 in Myanmar

The death toll from Cyclone Mocha which barrelled through the Bay of Bengal rose on Monday as contact was slowly restored to western Myanmar, with 29 people reported dead.

Economics & Business Mar 1, 2022

Digital finance doesn't reduce inequality; it perpetuates it

A new paper in Oxford Open Economics, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that, while digital financial services are often proposed as a vehicle to lower inequality, the cost and infrastructure barriers to accessing ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 3, 2022

Using radar to monitor burn victims and babies? It's now possible

University of Sydney scientists have achieved a technology breakthrough with potentially life-saving applications—all using an improved version of radar.

Environment Sep 3, 2021

Climate crisis triggers spike in lightning strike deaths in India

Faizuddin is still traumatised from the lightning strike that killed his three friends as they took selfies atop a 400-year-old fort in India, where climate change is making lethal strikes more common.

Environment Aug 11, 2021

Parched Mendocino, California, implores guests to save water

Tourists flock by the thousands to the coastal town of Mendocino for its Victorian homes and cliff trails, but visitors this summer are also finding public portable toilets and signs on picket fences pleading: "Severe drought. ...

Environment May 18, 2021

27 dead, dozens missing as cyclone batters Covid-stricken India

At least 27 people were dead and almost 100 missing on Tuesday after a monster cyclone slammed India, compounding the country's woes as it recorded a new record number of coronavirus deaths in 24 hours.

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