UK laundry releases microfibres weighing the equivalent of 1,500 buses each year: Around 35% of the microplastics contaminating the world’s oceans come from washing our clothes. When washed, synthetic clothing sheds tiny plastic fragments (typically shorter than 5mm). Known as microfibres, these fragments are a common type of microplastic, and when released pose a serious …
How the scientific equivalent of impressionist paintings can make you feel data: Water Lilies by Claude Monet (1919). Everett Collection/Shutterstock A group of artists shook the world in the 1860s by painting what they saw, thought and felt. They became known as the impressionists and they weren’t interested in recreating perfect visual appearances like hundreds …
Severe COVID is equivalent to 20 years of ageing – new study: Hyejin Kang Severe COVID results in cognitive impairment similar to that sustained between 50 and 70 years of age and is the equivalent of losing ten IQ points, our latest research shows. The effects are still detectable more than six months after the …
Samsung South Africa Launches New Equity Equivalent Investment Programme Initiatives: Entrepreneurs Invited to Apply for Business Support Opportunities Samsung South Africa has announced its EEIP (Equity Equivalent Investment Programme) plans aimed at empowering previously disadvantaged South Africans with a focus on women and youth in the ICT sector. The programme initiatives are set to strengthen …
South Africa in the news: ‘Unemployed South Africans equivalent to 7 of SA’s 9 provinces’: The current number of unemployed South Africans is equivalent to the population of seven of South Africa’s nine provinces. These are some of the ramifications of the alleged state capture …: “South Africa” – BingNews Pravin Gordhan warns Bain to …