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Air pollution in South Africa: affordable new devices use AI to monitor hotspots in real time
Bruce Mellado, University of the Witwatersrand Air quality has become one of the most important public health issues…
Satellites are making the night sky brighter – as a launch site, NZ has a duty to combat light pollution
Wikimedia Commons/Yourong F. Wang, CC BY-SA William Grant, University of Canterbury New Zealand’s space sector has been developing…
Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected – it could now turn into the next global pandemic
Wolfgang Preiser, Stellenbosch University; Cheryl Baxter, Stellenbosch University, and Jean Nachega, Stellenbosch University The mpox outbreak in Africa…
A 600-year-old coral shows us how the Pacific Ocean has changed since 1370
Scientists taking a sample from the massive boulder coral in Fiji back in 1998. Joel Orempuller (IRD) Juan…
WHO has declared mpox a global health emergency. What happens next?
Inkoly/Shutterstock C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW Sydney The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared mpox a public health emergency…
Elite athletes are generally smarter than us – cognitive sciences can explain why
Alberto Filgueiras, CQUniversity Australia The year was 1920. It was George “Babe” Ruth’s first season playing for the…
From maxing out to slowing down, how much do heart rates vary across sports?
Theresa Larkin, University of Wollongong and Gregory Peoples, University of Wollongong A classic image of the Olympics and…
Good flooding? Scientists use rice cultivation to preserve soil in Florida’s Everglades Agricultural Area
Growing rice can slow soil loss and the lowering of surface elevation. Frank Bienewald/Getty Images Jehangir Bhadha, University…
First map of vegetation across Antarctica reveals a battle for the continent’s changing landscape
Claudia Colesie Claudia Colesie, The University of Edinburgh A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse…
AI helps lighten the load on the electric grid – without skimping on people’s energy use
Smart thermostats, batteries and AI could give people the best of both worlds: comfort and efficiency. RgStudio/E+ via…