Coronavirus Could Break Iranian Society

The government has refused to impose quarantines and is encouraging people to visit the city of Qom, the center of the outbreak.
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How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart

The long read: For seven decades, India has been held together by its constitution, which promises equality to all. But Narendra Modi’s BJP is remaking the nation into one where some people count as more Indian than others
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In Britain, Even Jails Have a Class System

How a filmmaker, convicted of fraud, discovered the “White Collar Club.”
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Study dates Victorian volcano that buried a human-made axe 34,000 years ago

Fresh evidence shows two prominent south-west Victorian volcanoes, Budj Bim and Tower Hill, erupted at least 34,000 years ago and that people were in the area before those eruptions.
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How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw

China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.
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There's a huge fight over reclining your airline seat. Is capitalism to blame?

Recline or don’t recline – it’s your call. But remember: the greed of airlines in shrinking space to reap profits makes them the true villains
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Nearly 40% of Europeans in their late 20s still live at home

Economists blame the phenomenon on the 2008 recession and the following European debt crisis.
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Colorado River flow shrinks from climate crisis, risking ‘severe water shortages’

Millions of people rely on the 1,450-mile waterway as increasing periods of drought and rising temperatures reduce flow of river
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Bloomberg Bankrolls a Social-Media Army to Push Message

The effort is launching ahead of California’s March 3 primary and is one of the most unorthodox yet, blurring the lines between traditional campaign organizing and the distribution of sponsored content.
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How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter

“Proactive and reactively we will delete evil my brother.”
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Coronavirus 20 times more lethal than the flu? Death toll approaches 2,000

The death toll from coronavirus nears 2,000 as a Chinese study says the outbreak is 20 times more deadly than the flu.
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Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory?

A new bombshell paper from the Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology says that the Wuhan Center for Disease Control could have spawned the contagion in Hubei.
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This Chinese Factory Makes $100,000 Architectural Models!

Today we're visiting RJ Models, one of the top architectural model making factories in China. And it's amazing! It's a blend of high tech computerized tools like laser cutters, CNC mills, and high end 3d printers alongside old fashioned meticulous hand model making by skilled craftsmen. And the scale is unbelievable - 500 employees!
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Why were two Mexican butterfly activists found dead?

Relatives and co-workers live in fear after two monarch butterfly activists were found dead in Mexico.
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Why Witchcraft Is on the Rise

Americans’ interest in spell-casting tends to wax as instability rises and trust in establishment ideas plummets.
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Why so many of the world’s oldest companies are in Japan

The country has 33,000 businesses at least a century old. How have so many survived – and what does it mean for Japan’s future?
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Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record

The Antarctic has registered a temperature of more than 20C (68F) for the first time on record, prompting fears of climate instability in the world’s greatest repository of ice. The 20.75C logged by Brazilian scientists at Seymour Island on 9 February was almost a full degree higher than the previous record of 19.8C, taken on Signy Island in January 1982.
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'Ghost' DNA In West Africans Complicates Story Of Human Origins

Modern genomes from Nigeria and Sierra Leone show signals that scientists call "ghost" DNA — from an unknown human ancestor. That means that prehistoric humans likely procreated with an unknown group.
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New study an eye-opener on how coronavirus is spreading and how little we know

A study published Friday in the medical journal JAMA found that 41% of the first 138 patients diagnosed at one hospital in Wuhan, China, were presumed to be infected in that hospital.
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Japan’s Lost-and-Found System Is Insanely Good

If you misplace your phone or wallet in Tokyo, chances are very good that you’ll get it back. Here’s why.
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China's Hacking Spree Will Have a Decades-Long Fallout

Equifax. Anthem. Marriott. OPM. The data that China has amassed about US citizens will power its intelligence activities for a generation.
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The T. Rex may be the King of Lizards, but its new cousin is the "Reaper of Death"

The "Reaper of Death" is Canada's first new tyrannosaurus species in 50 years.
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10 of Europe’s most scenic train journeys

To kick off our new Interrail competition, in which the writer of the best rail tip wins two first-class train passes worth up to £768, here’s our pick of Europe’s most scenic journeys
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The endangered wolf that walked 8,712 miles to find love

Wolf known as OR-54 left home in Oregon in search of a mate, and scientists tracked her progress – until she died last week
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FBI is investigating more than 1,000 cases of Chinese theft of US technology

US officials talk about all the methods the Chinese government and its agents have been using to target US companies and universities to steal intellectual property.
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Good Morning. It's 65 Degrees in Antarctica.

That's warmer than Orlando today.
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All the ways China’s coronavirus outbreak is affecting tech

From delayed iPhones to canceled e-sports tournaments, the coronavirus is heavily impacting tech.
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A Russian satellite is probably stalking a US spy satellite in orbit

This isn’t the first time Russia has engaged in such maneuvers. It’s very unclear how the US will respond.
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An ancient skeleton from an underwater Mexican cave sheds light on early Americans

A nearly 10,000-year-old skeleton discovered in a submerged Mexican cave provides more clues to how and when people settled the Americas.
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Arctic permafrost thaw plays greater role in climate change than previously estimated

Abrupt thawing of permafrost will double previous estimates of potential carbon emissions from permafrost thaw in the Arctic, and is already rapidly changing the landscape and ecology of the circumpolar north, a new CU Boulder-led study finds. 
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NSW and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north

On New Year’s Day, NSW and Victoria jumped north by 1.8 metres – while the rest of the country remained firmly fixed in place.
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Ancient human IQ can't be measured in the brain, but somewhere else — study

How did human intelligence evolve? Anthropologists have studied this question for decades by looking at tools found in archaeological digs, evidence of the use of fire, and so on, and changes in brain size measured from fossil skulls.
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Media 'impartiality' on climate change is ethically misguided and downright dangerous

Given the summer we have had, media acquiescence in climate change denial, and failure to follow the weight of scientific evidence, looks like culpability.
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How Feral Pigs Took Over Your Country

In Texas alone you'd have to kill almost two million pigs per year to contain “the worst invasive species we’ll ever see.”
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A Battle to Protect Forests Unfolds in Central Africa

Indigenous people, environmentalists and industries vie for control over lands that can offer economic benefits or climate protection — but not always both.
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Coronavirus outbreak: what’s next?

Experts weigh up the best- and worst-case scenarios as the World Health Organization declares a global health emergency.
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Coronavirus Panic Buys Into Racist Ideas About How Chinese People Eat

The outbreak has had a decidedly dehumanizing effect, reigniting old strains of racism and xenophobia that frame Chinese people as uncivilized, barbaric "others"
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Feds Ban Chinese-Made Drones Over Spying Fears. Could Your Drone Be Next?

The U.S. Department of Interior essentially banned Chinese-made drones and drone parts because of the fear of these drones’ potential to be used for spying. The new no-fly rule is explicitly aimed at foreign drones and the only exceptions would be for responding to natural disasters or other emergencies.
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MEPs vote for universal charging cable for mobiles

The decision will anger Apple which has argued against such a decision.
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