24 articles from SATURDAY 28.9.2019
Canadian Indigenous water activist Autumn Peltier addresses UN on clean water
Canadian Indigenous water activist Autumn Peltier addressed hundreds of international guests at UN headquarters in Manhattan on Saturday. The 15-year-old activist from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario urged the global community to respect the sacredness and importance of clean...
Three more elephants killed in Sri Lanka, bringing toll to seven
Wildlife officials found three more dead wild elephants in central Sri Lanka Saturday, raising the number believed to have been poisoned by angry villagers to seven.
How I curbed my helicopter parenting – and let my daughter jump through fire
A family festival, where children learn courageous feats, helped me break my over-protective habitsOne Saturday this summer I stood in a field and held my breath as I waited for my nine-year-old daughter Sofya to jump through a ring of fire. Despite her enthusiasm, the hours of practice she’d had with expert adults and the many fire marshals on duty, I could see she was in conflict: afraid of...
We’re still a long way from making a quantum leap in web code-breaking | John Naughton
Google has built a super-fast computer, but whether it can break the encryption we take for granted is mootSomething intriguing happened last week. A paper about quantum computing by a Google researcher making a startling claim appeared on a Nasa website – and then disappeared shortly afterwards. Conspiracy theorists immediately suspected that something sinister involving the National Security...
Creating the Super Avocado
In the early 1990s, a young Australian chef named Bill Granger had a bright idea: Why not spread avocado on toast?Nearly three decades after that successful experiment, the long and sometimes bizarre history of the avocado has reached a new and potentially controversial turning point -- albeit without the Instagram potential of avocado toast. As climate change threatens the fruit's place on...
Meet the Millionaires Helping to Pay for Climate Protests
Climate change protesters from Extinction Rebellion snarled traffic in Washington on Monday and again on Friday. You might find yourself asking, "Who helps pays for this activism?"The answer, in part, is the scions of some of America's most famous families, including the Kennedys and the Gettys.On Friday, climate protesters marched through parts of downtown Washington, D.C., blocking...
Eating more seafood could help us slow the planet's warming — part of a handful of climate solutions the ocean offers
A UN report found that oceans are warming and sea levels rising due to climate change. Solutions to this trend could come from the water...
Ultrasound can reveal gene expression in the body
- ScienceDaily
- 19/9/28 14:27
Researchers are developing a technique for imaging mammalian gene expression with ultrasound by combining human bacteria and virus DNA.
Are humans preventing flies from eavesdropping?
- ScienceDaily
- 19/9/28 14:27
Soundscapes may influence the evolution of tightly co-evolved host-parasitoid relationships. Both traffic noise and natural ocean noise were found to inhibit parasitoid Ormia fly orientation to sound, which affects reproduction of the fly and survival of the cricket host.
Safe mercury levels in Kotzebue Sound fish
- ScienceDaily
- 19/9/28 14:27
A new analysis of Kotzebue Sound fish has found that mercury levels in a variety of its subsistence species are safe for unrestricted consumption. The study tested 297 subsistence-caught fish. The average mercury levels for each of the eight species were at levels considered safe by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
Ditch the delicate wash cycle to help save our seas
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- 19/9/28 14:27
The volume of water used during a wash cycle, rather than the spinning action of the washing machine, is the key factor in the release of plastic microfibres from clothes.
New blood test capable of detecting multiple types of cancer
- ScienceDaily
- 19/9/28 14:27
A new blood test in development has shown ability to screen for numerous types of cancer with a high degree of accuracy, a trial of the test shows.
How polkadot windows now protect birds at Pinery Provincial Park
Staff at Pinery Provincial Park, on the shores of Lake Huron, are applying thousands of tiny vinyl squares on the windows of the park's visitor centre in hopes that it will reduce bird strikes — which kill 25 million birds...
Climate lessons from the classroom spill into the streets
On Friday, tens of thousands of people — led by youth — marched across Canada in the Global Climate Strike. Many of the children in the streets do not know the details of the science, but they are convinced that they're heading into a different world than the one that exists...
Precious escargot: the mission to return tiny snails to Pacific islands
British zoologists part of global project to release 15,000 endangered partula species vital to French PolynesiaThey are some of the smallest animals on our planet, measuring from 1cm to 2cm in length. But the recent return of thousands of tiny tropical tree snails to French Polynesia represents one of the biggest reintroduction programmes ever attempted by conservationists.More than 15,000...
Going underground in Slovenia ... to prepare for outer space
In Slovenia's dramatically beautiful Karst region, six astronauts have been put through their paces for future missions—not in a flashy futuristic space centre but deep underground in the area's network of cold, dark and muddy caves.
Giant telescope project in Hawaii delayed by protests
Anger is brewing on the Big Island of Hawaii over plans to build a giant telescope on a dormant volcano that is highly sacred to the region's native population.
Verafin's quiet, huge success: Canada's largest venture funding deal goes to an N.L. company
A leading financial crime management software company is headquartered in St. John's, and fueling growth in the province's growing tech...
New treatment extends life of advanced melanoma patients
Half of people live five years or more with combination immunotherapy treatment, study findsHalf of people diagnosed with advanced melanoma, which once had dismal survival rates, are now living for five years or more when they receive a combination immunotherapy treatment, a study has shown.A decade ago, only one in 20 patients were still alive after five years. Most died within six to nine...
'It's deceiving Canadians': Hidden trackers reveal plastic recycling dumped in Canadian landfill
After several instances of Canadian plastic waste turning up overseas in places like the Philippines and Malaysia, CBC's Marketplace wanted to track the lifecycle of Canadian...
Worried about climate change? You've got a tough decision to make
Climate change is shaping up to be a key issue in the current federal election campaign — maybe even the one that decides who wins all the marbles next month. But that doesn't make the choice facing concerned Canadians any...
Will genome sequencing bring precision medicine for all?
The health secretary wants to introduce genetic screening to the NHS – but many firms are already selling cheap testing kitsThe buzz phrase among a small army of biotech companies looking to get a foothold in the ever-expanding health market is “personalised medicine” or, as it’s also known, “precision medicine”. At the core of this concept is the understanding that we are all...
NASA awards $10M to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin for hydrogen-oxygen storage tech
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture is on the top of the funding list for a newly announced round of "Tipping Point" funding from NASA for technologies that could be applied to exploration and settlement of the moon and Mars. Headquartered in Kent, Wash., Blue Origin will be awarded $10 million to conduct a ground-based demonstration of hydrogen and oxygen liquefaction...