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Only one in ten medical treatments are backed by high-quality evidence
Towfiqu ahamed barbhuiya/Shutterstock When you visit your doctor, you might assume that the treatment they prescribe has solid evidence to back it up. But you’d be wrong. Only one in ten medical treatments are supported by high-quality evidence, our latest research shows. The analysis, which is published in the JournalContinue Reading
Serbian cartoons expose political manipulation about COVID-19 vaccines from China and/or Russia · Global Voices
Panel from a cartoon by Miloš Dragojević (Stripom Protiv Diktature), depicting Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić, used with permission. Cartoonist Miloš Dragojević has been using the Facebook page Stripom protiv Diktature (Comics against Dictatorship) to make satirical commentaries on the political situation in Serbia. Several of his latest comics discuss theContinue Reading
Nigeria’s Abubakar Idris Dadiyata still missing, one year after abduction · Global Voices
Dadiyata was a critic of the Nigerian government Abubakar Idris Dadiyata, image used with permission from The SignalNg. Abubakar Idris Dadiyata, a lecturer and fierce critic of the Nigerian government, was abducted from his home on August 1, 2019, in the Barnawa neighbourhood of Kaduna, in northwestern Nigeria. One year afterContinue Reading
Student Union of Thailand president arrested over anti-government protest · Global Voices
She is the 14th activist to be arrested by the police Student leader Jutatip Sirikhan covered herself in white paint in a symbolic act of protest following her release. Photo and caption from Prachatai This article is from Prachatai, an independent news site in Thailand, edited and republished by GlobalContinue Reading
COVID-19 may harm minority groups’ health even if they don’t catch the virus
wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock As reliable data on COVID-19 emerges, one thing has become clear: not everyone is affected in the same way. Some groups in society have been hit particularly hard by this pandemic. Several risk factors have emerged, but one of the most important is ethnicity. Several studies have shown thatContinue Reading
Sudan needs a legal framework for cryptocurrency · Global Voices
Current legislation addresses electronic payments in general, but not cryptocurrencies Photo by André François McKenzie on Unsplash. The regulation of cryptocurrency poses a challenge for many countries and the technology is still illegal in a handful of nations. Since the first digital currency, Bitcoin, was invented in 2009 by theContinue Reading
World’s Largest Rooftop Greenhouse Opens In Quebec
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How a new solar and lighting technology could propel a renewable energy transformation
The demand for cheaper, greener electricity means that the energy landscape is changing faster than at any other point in history. This is particularly true of solar-powered electricity and battery storage. The cost of both has dropped at unprecedented rates over the past decade and energy efficient technologies such asContinue Reading
Gravitational waves: astronomers spot a black hole so massive they weren’t sure it could exist
Artist impression of merging black holes. Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) One of the greatest things about being an astrophysicist is that you keep discovering things you didn’t think were possible. Now the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo Observatory have discovered theirContinue Reading
This ancient Chinese anatomical atlas changes what we know about acupuncture and medical history
Pixeljoy/Shutterstock.com The accepted history of anatomy says that it was the ancient Greeks who mapped the human body for the first time. Galen, the “Father of Anatomy”, worked on animals, and wrote anatomy textbooks that lasted for the next 1,500 years. Modern anatomy started in the Renaissance with Andreas Vesalius,Continue Reading