Escape route

Dams need structures to guide fish towards routes engineered for their safe movement

As good as real

Bioengineered kidneys can eliminate need for human donors

Moving target

Drug targets body’s immunity instead of virus to cut flu deaths

Killing you sweetly

High sugar intake is the primary cause of diabetes epidemic

Junking the myth

Fast food from cafeteria worse than food which is simply oily

In transit

Commercial ships provide better tsunami warnings

Food for brain

Vitamins and omega-3 fatty acid improve cognitive ability

End of creepy crawlies?

Studies show global warming is making it difficult for lizards to survive

Pollution watch

GoodBAU, cruel world

Sinks below and stays there

As good as embryonic stem cells

Clue to save turtles

Agriculture runoff triggers fatal tumours in green sea turtles

The world the slaves built

After the recent earthquake, Haiti is depicted as a basket case. It was not always so

Deep sea dibs

When it comes to the worm, the crab is always early  

Timely preservation

Tale of two reptiles

Fossils of an ancient snake wrapped around a dinosaur enraptures scientists

Days of the dino

A priest-scientist to artists, dinosaurs have had their popularizers  

Half of the world’s richest biodiversity zones unprotected: UN study

Fast progress needed on targets for protected areas especially marine areas, it adds

Science and Technology - Briefs

Science and Technology - Briefs

World AIDS Day: Communities can lead way to ending public health threat, says UNAIDS

Suggests integrating, elevating and engaging communities at all stages of HIV-related decision-making

This year will be warmest in more than 170 years, WMO confirms in report launched at COP28

Libya Medicane, Cyclone Freddy, accelerating Antarctic sea ice loss and rising sea levels caused as due to intense warming in first 10 months of 2023

SDG Summit 2023: Political declaration for massive increase in investments to attain SDGs adopted

Leaders recommitted to full implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Renewable energy estimated to attract 70% global energy investment in 2021: IEA

Coal is down but not out