Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship – not half, as some reports would have you believe: Shutterstock/Dedraw Studio America’s constitutional framework was designed specifically to prevent the concentration of power and to impede any president’s authoritarian aspirations. It is certainly being put to the test right now. When US vice-president J.D. Vance recently …
No government in half a century has built 300,000 homes every year, but that’s what Labour wants to do now: Labour is changing the way sites for new homes are chosen. Francesco Scatena The election of the Labour government has been accompanied by a renewed appetite to deal with England’s housing crisis. Among the first …
Wegovy: why half the people taking the weight loss drug stop within a year – and what happens when they do: myskin/Shutterstock Despite the effectiveness of the newer generation of anti-obesity drugs – called GLP-1 receptor agonists – few can tolerate them in the long run. A new study, published in the journal Obesity, reveals …
More than half of life on Earth is found in soil – here’s why that’s important: Springtails (Fasciosminthurus quinquefasciatus) are found in any damp soil. Andy Murray/chaosofdelight.org, CC BY-NC-ND A recent study has found that soil is home to 59% of all life on Earth, from an insect feeding on the soil surface to a …
Half of all South Africans are overweight or obese. Warning labels on unhealthy foods help change that: Unhealthy diets are a major risk factor for diseases like cancers, diabetes. Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock South Africa’s national health department recently invited public comment on regulations for warning labels on food packaging. The regulations specify how pre-packaged food should …
Europe has lost over half a billion birds in 40 years. The single biggest cause? Pesticides and fertilisers: Farmland birds like the corn bunting have seen their numbers plummet since 1980. Aurélien Audevard, Author provided A trickle of studies warning that the enormous variety of living things on Earth is diminishing has turned into a …
Half of Africa’s white rhino population is in private hands – it’s time for a new conservation approach: A white rhino in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Enrico Di Minin Southern white rhinos are widely known as a conservation success story. Their population grew from fewer than 100 individuals in the 1920s to …
Mental health: almost half of Johannesburg students in new study screened positive for probable depression: Wesley Lazarus/Shutterstock Depression is a mental health disorder characterised by a persistently low mood or loss of interest in activities. It causes significant impairment in daily life. Possible causes include a combination of biological, psychological and social sources of distress. …
Concussion: almost half of people still show signs of brain injury after six months: Our study found changes in the way the thalamus functioned in people who'd had concussion. SciePro/ Shutterstock Around 56 million people globally suffer a concussion each year. It’s common for concussion to cause short-term symptoms such as a headache, nausea, sensitivity …
‘Blue marble’: how half a century of climate change has altered the face of the Earth: In December 1972, Nasa’s final Apollo mission (Apollo 17) took the iconic “Blue Marble” photo of the whole Earth. Many, including science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, had expected that the sight of Earth from afar would instil the …
Half a million Ethiopian migrants have been deported from Saudi Arabia in 5 years – what they go through: Ethiopian migrants stranded in Saudi Arabia arrive at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2021. Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Tens of thousands of migrant Ethiopian workers have been forcibly repatriated from …
Honeybee lifespan could be half what it was 50 years ago – new study: Honeybees are vital pollinators BigBlueStudio/Shutterstock A new paper shows how the lifespan of the adult honeybee appears to have shrunk by nearly 50% in the past 50 years. The European Red List for Bees suggests nearly one in ten species of …
Check out this WordPress image: Ringtown Easter Sunday Half Marathon and 10KM Road Races and Fun Runs 2014 Image by Peter Mooney This is a photograph from the Ringtown GAA Club Half Marathon and 10KM Road Races, fun runs, and walks which were held in Whitehall, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Easter Sunday (April 21st …
COVID pandemic created immunisation gaps in Africa. Over half a million children are at risk: Routine immunisation has resulted in diseases like measles being drastically reduced. Laszlo Mates/shutterstock The COVID pandemic exposed the fault lines in health systems and national routine immunisation programmes around the world. A recent World Health Organization (WHO) report showed that …
Radiocarbon dating only works half the time – we may have found the solution: A new DNA method could help making it easier to date skeletons Malinka333/Shutterstock Dating is everything in archaeology. Exciting discoveries of ancient burial sites or jewellery might make headlines, but for scientists, this kind of discovery is only meaningful if we …
Over half of children in England and Wales are now born to unmarried parents – overturning a history of stigma and discrimination: AndreyUG/Shutterstock In 2021, more babies – 51% – were born to unmarried mothers in England and Wales than to those in a marriage or civil partnership for the first time since records began …
Half of British people are seeing friends and leaving home less since the pandemic – new study: Shutterstock Two years on from the first pandemic lockdown in the UK, a new study by King’s College London and Ipsos MORI shows just how damaging COVID and the measures to control it have been. In a representative …
Poland’s border wall will cut Europe’s oldest forest in half: The European bison is back from the edge of extinction, and Bia?owie?a has the continent's largest population. Micha? ?mihorski , Author provided Poland is planning to build a wall along its border with Belarus, primarily to block migrants fleeing the Middle East and Asia. But …