By Jorge Andrés Delgado-Ron, Senior Data Analyst at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
According to an influential study published by The Lancet in 2001, one out of 10 patients who go into cardiac arrest will come back with a new core memory. This “near-death experience” (or NDE) is so vivid and convincing that it often reshapes the patient’s view of the world, the afterlife and their own identity.
Unlike fragmented or disorganized experiences seen in hallucinations or delirium, NDE narratives are characterized by…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A teacher speaks to students during a lesson at a public school in São Paulo, Brazil on October 18, 2021. © 2021 Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg via Getty Images A new UNESCO report illustrates how education can empower children and their communities to access their human rights. It also shows that education and justice can uphold the rule of law in contexts where it’s in decline and where children live in conditions of extreme injustice. Human Rights Watch has long documented the consequences of restricting teachers’ ability to deliver quality education and…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A client waits to be seen by a doctor during an HIV clinic day at TASO Mulago service center in Kampala, Uganda, February 17, 2025. © 2025 Hajarah Nalwadda/Getty Images (Washington, DC) – The United States government is conditioning lifesaving health assistance on broad access to surveillance data and extractive rights to pathogen samples and data for pharmaceutical development, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch issued an assessment of seven bilateral health agreements signed in late 2025 with Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Liberia,…
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By Akmaral Amrekulova
Stray dogs without owners must be held for at least five days, while dogs with potential owners can be held up to 60 days before euthanasia is allowed.
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By Teresa Lambe, Calleva Head of Vaccine Immunology, University of Oxford
Rebecca Makinson, Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford
The ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda has now killed 61 people, with 359 confirmed cases. The Bundibugyo strain of the virus has a fatality rate of between 30% and 50%, and there is currently no vaccine approved for it. Two scientists at the University of Oxford, Teresa Lambe and Rebecca Makinson, are part of the group who are working to develop one. In early…
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By Thato Manamela, South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) post-doctoral researcher, University of Pretoria
Roger P. Deane, Director: Wits Centre for Astrophysics; SKA Chair in Radio Astronomy, University of the Witwatersrand
Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio astronomy frontier. A hydroxyl megamaser is a natural space laser, and this one is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion light-years away.
We spoke to the astronomers, Thato Manamela, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pretoria, and Roger Deane, director of the…
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By Samuel Adeyanju, PhD Student, University of British Columbia
Alida O'Connor, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia
Cornelius K. A. Pienaah, PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Environment, Western University
Ghana’s community conservation areas protect forests and wildlife while supporting rural livelihoods, but weak laws and funding threaten their future.
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By Mhlangabezi Slayi, Researcher: Centre for Global Change, University of Fort Hare
Admire Rukudzo Dzvene, Researcher, University of Fort Hare
Hlekani Muchazotida Kabiti, Researcher, Centre for Global Change, Walter Sisulu University
Shadreck Muchaku, Researcher
Simbarashe Ndhleve, Research Scientist: Centre for Global Change, Walter Sisulu University
Climate change is threatening sheep farming in South Africa’s Drakensberg. Farmers are adapting but need mountain infrastructure, better climate warnings and vets.
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By Meilan Yan, Senior Lecturer in Financial Economics, Loughborough University
Dalu Zhang, Lecturer in Finance, University of Leicester
David T Llewellyn, Professor of Money and Banking, Loughborough University
AI is changing how people bank, save, borrow and ask for help. It could make finance faster, cheaper – and even more personal. But if customers cannot understand decisions, challenge mistakes or reach a human when things go wrong, “smart” finance may simply become a more efficient way to frustrate people.
In the UK, a review by the Financial Conduct Authority pointed out that AI…
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By Luke Sinwell, Professor of Sociology, University of Johannesburg
Terri Maggott, Researcher, University of Johannesburg
Trevor Ngwane, Senior researcher, University of Johannesburg
Anti-migrant campaigns in South Africa are increasingly being framed as acts of community protection. Protesters present their efforts as a response to community concerns about crime, unemployment and failing public services.
Leaders of these campaigns claim that weak border controls,…
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