Photograph panorama looking over the devastation of the Kedarnath landslide, June 2013, Uttarakhand state, India. Credit: Vaibhav Kaul, University of Sheffield More than 50,000 people were killed by landslides around the world between 2004 and 2016, according to a new study by researchers at UK’s Sheffield University. The team, who […]
Photo by Andrew Seaman on Unsplash There are many of us who stand for bringing people together and connecting the world. I hope we have the focus to take the long view and build the new social infrastructure to create the world we want for generations to come. – Mark […]
The US wants a ‘Space Force’ to be the sixth branch of the US military. Shutterstock/Carlos Romero United States Vice President Mike Pence has confirmed overnight plans to create a “Space Force” as the sixth branch of the US military. He repeated comments from President Donald Trump, who had said that “American […]
studiostoks / Shutterstock By Lee Camp, who is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and activist. Camp is the host of the weekly comedy news TV show “Redacted Tonight With Lee Camp” on RT America. He is a former comedy writer for the Onion and the Huffington Post and has been a touring […]
The lawyer for the plaintiff successfully argued that sharing a 3D scan of a firearm on the internet was protected on free speech grounds. Shutterstock A landmark case in the United States has been settled out of court, giving gun rights advocate Cody Wilson the right to publish instructions on the […]
“I can’t understand why they couldn’t take the prestige of the academy into account when they decided on these changes,” says László Lovász, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. MTA.HU Today, Hungary’s parliament approved an amendment that makes it legally possible to transfer a large part of […]
In research on people, scientists are typically interested in the group data – the mean, median, and variance of a sample of people. But according to a provocative new paperout in PNAS, the statistics of a group can obscure the variability within individuals, over time. The paper, from Aaron J. Fisher, John […]
It would take the average person 244 hours per year (6 working weeks) to read all privacy policies that apply to them. Shutterstock Australians are agreeing to privacy policies they are not comfortable with and would like companies only to collect data that is essential for the delivery of their […]
The AR-15 semiautomatic rifle has been called “America’s gun,” but it also has a dark history. Credit: Shutterstock A former Supreme Court justice is calling for its repeal. One in five Americans want to see it go. The president has come out swinging in its defense. The Second Amendment has emerged […]
Philippines coral reef Underwater, Anilao, coral reef, tropical reef, marine life, Some of the fishing methods used in today’s small-scale fisheries are causing more damage to coral reefs than ever, a new UBC study has found. The study, conducted in the Philippines by the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries’ […]