By Laura
The Cameroonian government’s rice self-sufficiency policy has sparked enthusiasm among the country’s rice farmers. In the northwest, rice farmers combine courage with determination every day to fulfil these national promises.
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By Antonios Kelarakis, Reader in Polymers ad Nanomaterials, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Lancashire
On November 14 1985, a letter announcing the discovery of a superstable species of carbon appeared in the science journal Nature. Even the letter’s title, C₆₀: Buckminsterfullerene, caused a stir among the journal’s scholarly readers.
Molecules are usually named with sterile precision. This one was named after the American architect and futurist Richard Buckminster Fuller (Bucky to his friends), whose geodesic…
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By Costas Velis, Lecturer in Resource Efficiency Systems, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds; Imperial College London
Ed Cook, Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London
The world is struggling to deal with ever-growing quantities of waste.
A new World Bank Group report, What a Waste 3.0, shows that more than 2.6 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (which includes rubbish from households, businesses and street cleaning) were generated in 2022. That figure is projected to rise to 3.9 billion tonnes by 2050. The good news is that the share of waste that is mismanaged is expected to fall over that period, from around 30%…
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By Sara Read, Senior Lecturer in English, Loughborough University
We associate New Year with deep mid-winter and the tidy date of January 1, but for 600 years between 1155 until 1752 in England and Wales the new year began on 25 March. This day was one of the quarter days that divided the year historically and on which rents and debts were settled. March 25 became the quarter day where annual accounts were finalised. So, around about now, we’d have been preparing to welcome in a new year alongside the warmer weather and spring blooms.
Celebrations were double as the legal and ecclesiastical calendar worked in harmony as March 25 is also Lady Day or…
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By Marianne Hanson, Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
Israel’s avowed goal in the Middle East war is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Yet, the double standard associated with this is hardly sustainable in the long run.
The worst-kept secret in the world of nuclear politics is that Israel possesses a formidable arsenal of nuclear weapons. It began developing these in the 1950s and reached a fully operational capability by the late 1960s.
Although Israel refuses to confirm or deny this fact, arms control organisations…
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By Tauel Harper, Associate Professor in Communications and Media, Murdoch University
The clear signal this trend data sends is Australians are a pragmatic lot. If using an EV might save them money, they are interested.
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By Christine Mary Hallinan, Senior Research Fellow, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
More people are accessing medicinal cannabis than ever expected, or the health system was designed for. And we’re failing patients.
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By Emma Rowe, Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University
Schools ask parents to contribute to basic supplies such as stationery and first aid supplies. The price tag can be four figures, per child, per year.
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By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
The Dajjāl is, according to Islam, a false messiah who will emerge in the End Times. An Iranian senior cleric believes Donald Trump is this figure.
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By Paul M. Garrett, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
You’ve only been in the shopping centre for a few minutes, but back in the car park, you suddenly freeze. Where did I park? The memory feels gone. You guess and start to head left. Then you see the sign – “Blue Zone 1” – and realise your guess was correct.
This everyday experience is at the heart of new research colleagues and I have published in the journal Computational Brain & Behavior.
It shows that even “wrong” short-term memories may not be empty guesses.
What is short-term…
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