Rich nations ignore past pollution to claim climate plans are 1.5C-compatible

Claims by wealthy nations that their new emissions reduction targets for 2035 are compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5C have been questioned by experts concerned about fairness. In Nationally…

“Mental Booster Shots” Strengthen Resistance to Fake News

Summary: New research reveals that short, memory-focused interventions can help individuals resist misinformation more effectively and retain these skills over extended periods, acting as “psychological booster shots.” The study evaluated…

Middle age is a time when women are vulnerable to eating disorders

“No one expects a grown woman in her 40s to have an eating disorder. That’s for teenagers, right? Well, guess what – it happened to me.” Alexa, a 44-year-old real…

Viewpoint: University of California-Berkeley administration did nothing when radical feminist group excused the raping and mutilating of Israeli women

[S]tudents [at the University of California-Berkeley] … are in a required comparative-literature class that mandates they attend [a lceture entitled]  “Feminist and Queer Solidarities With Palestine,” … sponsored by the…

Astronomers crack the case of a mysterious deep space radio signal that repeats every 2 hours

Astronomers have cracked the case of a mysterious repeating radio signal that has been a mystery since it was uncovered last year. The team tracked the signal back to a…

The Aussie diet in 2030 will have less fruit and more junk food if current trends continue

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aussies are falling short of key national health targets, according to scientists who have used an innovative technique to forecast future dietary trends. New research from…

US tech firm Salesforce to invest $1.0 bn in Singapore

Credit: Jeda Hutchison from Pexels US cloud software giant Salesforce said Wednesday it planned to invest $1.0 billion in Singapore over the next five years to boost the use of…

Trump is cancelling a republican project to wipe out AIDS, putting millions of lives at risk

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Enormous progress has been made in tackling the global HIV epidemics over the past two decades. The number of people dying from HIV-related causes has fallen…

LiDAR study reveals 5,000-year-old fortified settlements

Archaeologists using LiDAR have discovered 5,000-year-old fortified settlements in Romania’s Neamț County. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), is a method of remote sensing using light in the form of a…

Childhood Abuse Doubles Psychiatric and Health Risks

Summary: New research finds that adults who experienced both physical and sexual abuse in childhood are about twice as likely to suffer chronic physical and mental health issues, such as…