Science (Page 217)

Edward Hasting-Evans/shutterstock Why can’t we leave badgers in peace? They are distinctive and iconic animals, but are subjected to shockingly high levels of abuse and criminal behaviour. Only very recently, a 28-year-old teaching assistant has been found guilty of animal cruelty after the RSPCA and police found pictures of herContinue Reading

fizkes/Shutterstock The UK government has recently revealed more detail about its ambitious plans to become the “safest place in the world to go online” by way of the online safety bill. The draft bill is currently being reviewed by the government following a report by the joint committee, with theContinue Reading

VALUA STUDIO/Shutterstock The UK government has announced that its forthcoming online safety bill will require websites that publish pornography to verify users are over 18. Sites will need to adopt a method of age verification, such as having users provide their passport information. They will likely need to employ aContinue Reading

Inside Creative House/Shutterstock Internet use has increased significantly over recent years, and through the pandemic, we have become even more dependent on online services. To meet this demand, the UK government and service providers have fast tracked the expansion of the high-speed internet infrastructure known as “fibre to the premises”Continue Reading

Where 2020 XL5 would appear in the dawn sky if we could see it with the naked eye from Chile. NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva, CC BY-NC-SA Research has shown that the Earth trails an asteroid barely a kilometre across in its orbit about the Sun – only the second such bodyContinue Reading

African elephant being hunted Roger Brown Photography/shutterstock Do you have any desire to stalk and kill an elephant? Probably not, but some relish the idea. Recently the world’s largest trophy hunting convention took place in Las Vegas, organised by Safari Club International, an influential US-based hunting lobby group. Attendees bidContinue Reading

YuliaLisitsa/Shutterstock The autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, is described as an intensely pleasant tingling sensation originating in the scalp and neck, and spreading down the body. ASMR is elicited by a range of video and auditory triggers, such as watching someone pretend to perform relaxing actions like massaging orContinue Reading

Life in the wild can be tough, and sometimes animals don’t have the luxury of taking time out when they are sick. That’s certainly the reality of life for vervet monkeys living in Southern Africa, even though parasites and viruses are an ever-present component of animal life. We know howContinue Reading