Cover cropping, the practice of planting secondary crops during the off-season to improve soil health, has roots stretching back to antiquity. Ancient Romans used crops like lupines to enhance soil fertility…
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Archaeologists discover dugout canoe near the Modlin Fortress
Archaeologists have discovered a dugout canoe at the mouth of the Narew River near the Modlin Fortress in Poland. Dugout canoes, also known as a logboat or monoxylon, are the…
Australian teens want action on gambling
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research looking at young people’s attitudes to gambling harms reveals Australian teens feel strongly about the lack of action by government to protect them from…
British Airways parent IAG drops bid for Air Europa
Air Europa will not join the IAG Group after owner of British Airways and Ibera abandoned the acquistion in the face of competition concerns by regulators. Airline giant IAG, owner…
Astronomers use AI to find elusive stars ‘gobbling up’ planets
Credit: NASA, ESSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI). Astronomers have recently found hundreds of “polluted” white dwarf stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. These are white dwarfs caught actively consuming…
Cancer diagnosis can be devastating, but for some it gives permission to live more radically
by Kevin Dew, Alex Broom, Chris Cunningham, Elizabeth Dennett, Kerry Chamberlain and Richard Egan, The Conversation Credit: Ivan Samkov from Pexels A diagnosis of life-limiting cancer can be overwhelming and…
Indian official calls EU carbon border tax unfair and unacceptable
Ajay Seth said the EU’s proposals on their carbon border adjustment mechanism were “not practical” for a developing country like India India has declined to accept a European Union proposal…
2D nano-semiconductors advancing quantum technology
An artist’s rendering of moiré excitons in a nano-semiconductor. Credit: KyotoU/Matsuda Lab Quantum technology is quantifiable in qubits, which are the most basic unit of data in quantum computers. The…
