Chandrayaan-3: India hopes to land a rover on the Moon for the first time: The Vikram lander should carry the rover to the lunar surface. ISRO, Author provided On Wednesday August 23, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) mission Chandrayaan-3 will deploy its lander and rover to the surface of the Moon. As the name …
World Wrestling Entertainment has long profited from racial stereotypes – it’s time for change: In April, former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) writer Britney Abrahams sued the company for alleged discrimination following her objections at racist and discriminatory storylines. The lawsuit also contains some damning examples, citing “offensively racist and stereotypical jargon used in WWE scripts”. …
How drugs can warp your sense of time: Roman Barkov/Shutterstock Imagine a world where you could control your sense of time. Where trips to the dentist flew by in a second and holidays felt like they lasted forever. Time altering pills may sound like science fiction but the time warping effects of psychoactive drugs suggest …
Music video controversy in Nigeria: Logos Olori misreads a religious time bomb: Afrobeats artist Logos Olori. Screengrab/YouTube/Logos Olori Recently, Logos Olori – a Nigerian singer who is signed to Afrobeats superstar Davido’s music label – released a video with supposedly Muslim men dancing to his song Jaye Lo in front of a mosque. After an …
Extreme weather events are exactly the time to talk about climate change – here’s why: Zurijeta/Shutterstock Record-breaking heatwaves are sweeping across the northern hemisphere, affecting large parts of southern Europe, the US and China. On July 24, Sicily recorded blistering temperatures of more than 47.5? and wildfires are currently tearing through Greece. The heatwaves come as …
Pesticides are harming Nigeria: it’s time to update the law: Without strict regulation, farmers misuse pesticides. Kola Sulaimon/AFP/ Getty Images The European Union has banned the use of several pesticides, and heavily restricted others. This is because of their potential health effects or environmental contamination, or because there’s not enough data to be sure that …
A ‘black box’ AI system has been influencing criminal justice decisions for over two decades – it’s time it was opened up: Shutterstock/Orla Justice systems around the world are using artificial intelligence (AI) to assess people with criminal convictions. These AI technologies rely on machine learning algorithms and their key purpose is to predict the …
It’s time for Ghana to enshrine its respect for the right to life – by abolishing the death penalty: The death penalty has not been enforced in Ghana for over three decades Wikimedia Commons Thirty years have now gone by since Ghana used its gallows, a fact that indicates the country’s respect for human life. …
Understanding time may be the key to the race against climate change: Es sarawuth/Shutterstock Something has to change. Politicians and environmental organisations have invested millions trying to influence people’s behaviour and tackle the climate crisis. But it’s not working. No G20 country is on track to meet their climate goals. So instead, researchers are turning …
These are the latest trending searches on Google right now: Sa vs Australia rugby time: springbok vs australia, rugby score: Daily Search Trends UFC 290: : Daily Search Trends Have you tried: Farking?
Why earthquakes happen all the time in Britain but not in Ireland: Britain experiences hundreds of earthquakes each year. Raffaele Bonadio, Author provided The village of Tean in Staffordshire, England, was hit by a 3.3-magnitude earthquake on June 28 2023. The tremors caused windows and doors to rattle in the surrounding area. Earthquakes of this …
What cricket can teach us about the mind’s experience of time – and how to deal with anxiety: A battle against time itself: Australia warm up ahead of the 2009 Ashes test series. Lance Bellers/Shutterstock Bowlers playing for England and Australia in the current Ashes cricket series are collectively meant to deliver at least 540 …
Brightest cosmic explosion of all time: how we may have solved the mystery of its puzzling persistence: An x-ray of the brightest ever gamma ray burst reflected off dust layers, creating extended 'light echoes' of the initial blast. Nasa First detected accidentally by US military satellites in the late 1960s, cosmic explosions known as gamma …
Keir Starmer hasn’t really called time on North Sea oil and gas – here’s why: Keir Starmer recently announced that the UK will grant no new licenses for oil and gas firms to drill in the North Sea if Labour wins the next election. It’s a decision that would terminate the UK’s 60-year policy of …
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 …
Drink up, it’s closing time: South African study calculates that limiting opening hours will save lives: Cristi Lucaci/Shutterstock South Africans are among the heaviest drinkers in the world. The country has the highest per capita rate of alcohol consumption in Africa. Excessive drinking is especially widespread in the Western Cape. Research estimates that per capita …
Time Shelter: International Booker’s first Bulgarian winner is a rich experiment in style, structure and ideas: A philosophical exploration of memory and nostalgia, about forgetting and trying to hold on to our past and make sense of our present and future, Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter is a worthy winner of this year’s International Booker prize. …
Stephen Hawking and I created his final theory of the cosmos – here’s what it reveals about the origins of time and life: Hawking and the author. Photograph: Thomas Hertog and Jonathan Wood, Author provided The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop “a new quantum theory of the …