How to recognise a temperate rainforest in Britain and Ireland when you see one: The term “temperate rainforest”, or “Celtic rainforest”, has rapidly gained public attention in the UK recently. In February 2023, British insurance company, Aviva, awarded £38 million of funding for the restoration of these rainforests. These restoration efforts have even caught the …
We trained AI to recognise footprints, but it won’t replace forensic experts yet: Shutterstock/Evannovostro We rely on experts all the time. If you need financial advice, you ask an expert. If you are sick, you visit a doctor, and as a juror you may listen to an expert witness. In the future, however, artificial intelligence …
Why animals recognise numbers but only humans can do maths: Everything I Do/Shutterstock Counting feels utterly effortless to adults, who are unlikely to even remember when or how they picked up this useful, apparently automatic skill. Yet when you think about it, counting is a remarkable invention. It helped early humans to trade, apportion food …
Why we can still recognise people in face masks: oneinchpunch/Shutterstock The average person knows about 5,000 faces – from family and friends to the cashier at the local store. Most people can recognise familiar faces with ease, even from low quality images, or from photos that are many years old. We often recognise familiar faces …
Horses can recognise themselves in a mirror – new study: Looking good. Shutterstock/Edoma If you ask people to list the most intelligent animals, they’ll name a few usual suspects. Chimpanzees, dolphins and elephants are often mentioned, as are crows, dogs and occasionally pigs. Horses don’t usually get a look in. So it might come as …
Why Uganda must recognise nurses for more than a decade of HIV care: Many hospitals permit nurses to initiate and manage patients on ART. Jean-Marc Giboux/Getty Images In the years after the “slim disease” or HIV was first recognised in southwestern Uganda in 1982, access to treatment was for a privileged few. At the time, …
South Africa in the news: South Africa court battle to recognise Muslim marriage: Johannesburg: A South African legal rights group on Monday took the government to court in a campaign pressing for new legislation to recognise Muslim marriages as legally valid. The Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) said it was lobbying against “unfair …: “South Africa” …