Elsevier Wants To Stop Indian Medics, Students And Academics Accessing Knowledge The Only Way Most Of Them Can Afford: Via Sci-Hub And Libgen

Last month Techdirt wrote about some ridiculous scaremongering from Elsevier against Sci-Hub, which the publisher claimed was a "security risk". Sci-Hub, with its 85 million academic papers, is an example of what are sometimes termed...
Continue to article

The rare allergy that turned me into a vegetarian

I'm one of a small number of Australians with a potentially deadly allergy to red meat. And it's all thanks to a creature as small as a grain of sand, writes Menios Constantinou.
Continue to article

Chernobyl fears resurface as river dredging begins in exclusion zone

Scientists warn of threat of nuclear contamination from work on giant E40 waterway linking Baltic to the Black Sea
Continue to article

How author Farley Mowat smuggled a V2 rocket into Canada | CBC Radio

Retired major Harold Skaarup explains how author Farley Mowat smuggled a V2 rocket into Canada after the Second World War.
Continue to article

The aroma of distant worlds: New evidence that spices, fruits from Asia had reached the Mediterranean earlier than thought

Asian spices such as turmeric and fruits like the banana had already reached the Mediterranean more than 3000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. A team of researchers has shown that even in the Bronze Age, long-distance trade in food was already connecting distant societies.
Continue to article

New coronavirus variant: What do we know?

How has a new coronavirus variant become the most common form of the virus in parts of England?
Continue to article

‘We are slowly being poisoned.’ How toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes

A Times investigation found that vapors from oil and other fluids seep into planes with alarming frequency across all airlines, at times creating chaos and confusion.
Continue to article

Who Were America's Enslaved? A New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers

The public website draws connections between existing datasets to piece together fragmentary narratives
Continue to article

How Europe's night trains came back from the dead

Sleeper trains in Europe are making a comeback after a decade of budget and route cuts. But post-Covid-19 and with travelers prioritizing the environment, the romance of the night train is back on track.
Continue to article

New Research Bolsters Claim That Neanderthals Buried Their Dead

A re-analysis of the skeleton of a 2-year-old Neanderthal is providing some of the strongest evidence yet that Neanderthals deliberately buried their dead.
Continue to article

Facial Recognition Is Running Amok in China. The People Are Pushing Back.

China’s first lawsuit against facial recognition was a victory for privacy advocates. But there’s a limit to how far they can push against surveillance.
Continue to article

Petra lost and found

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded secret for centuries.
Continue to article

Explained: North Korea’s New Technology Law

Pyonyang has passed a new law “banning the spread of certain foreign cultures and ‘further cementing’ strict ideological policies.” In addition, the new body passed laws “boosting sci-tech policies, forestry policies and control over telecom networks.”
Continue to article

The untold story of how the Golden State Killer was found: A covert operation and private DNA

Of the many mysteries that surround the Golden State Killer, one of the most consequential is exactly how authorities caught Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. four decades after his murders began.
Continue to article

The man who posted himself to Australia

In 1964 Australian athlete Reg Spiers sent himself from London to Australia in a wooden box - he was transported as freight in the cargo hold of a plane.
Continue to article

The lost Japanese generation remains unemployed, unmarried and living with their parents

They are between 40 and 50 years old, live immersed in chronic hopelessness, most are still single and childless and have thrown in the towel in the workplace.
Continue to article