Amy Bower and the Accessible Oceans project can turn data into sound.By Allison Braden, March 30, 2024Physical oceanographer Amy Bower, right, and operations leader David Fisichella display an instrument for measuring the depth and temperature of the ocean. Bower and her colleagues use the data these floats send back to better understand the ocean circulation in the North Atlantic. | Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionUp
Antibodies that target blood stem cells can rejuvenate immune responses in mice. By Heidi Ledford, March 27, 2024Blood stem cells (example pictured; artificially coloured) generate red blood cells and immune cells.Credit: Science Photo LibraryOld mice developed more youthful immune systems after scientists reduced aberrant stem cells in the aged animals1. The technique strengthened the old rodents’ responses to viral infection and
By Ashraf ud Doula, 26/03/2024 In this article I wish to narrate in terms of their approaches to their neighbours the contrasts between two countries – Israel and Singapore and argue that while one, while Israel chose hostility, cruelty and occupation as its strategy to exist, Singapore, chose peaceful engagements with its giant neighbours as its path to peace, security and prosperity.Israel’s “Road to Hell”Since its establishment in 1948,
This week’s big environmental story, March 22-28Solar arrays have been illegally installed in Hubei province on farmland important to China’s food security, CCTV (China Central Television) has reported. The land is designated as “basic farmland”, meaning it is important for food security, and “shall not be occupied for other uses in the long term,” according to regulations on its protection. Anlu, a prefecture-level
The aquarium trade devastated wild populations. Conservation and restoration is now on the agenda, but management and data gaps remain. By Ari Syamsudin, March 25, 2024Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni) in a Thai aquarium (Image: Tatiana Terekhina / Alamy)The people of Bone Baru village in Indonesia have historically been farmers, but global demand for a small “ornamental” fish pushed them to go to sea.In the 1990s, the Banggai
With Prabowo winning the election, now is the time to enshrine Indigenous rights, write Michelin Sallata and Roberto Duma Buladja. By Michelin Sallata, Roberto Duma Buladja, March 27, 2024In 2023, the Awyu people of Indonesian Papua filed a lawsuit challenging the issuance of a permit for an oil palm plantation on their ancestral lands. Their claim was rejected. (Image: © Jurnasyanto Sukarno / Greenpeace)On 14 February, shortly
