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Astrophysicist Avi Loeb: ‘UFOs should be the subject of mainstream inquiry. Science must bring clarity’
The Harvard scientist on his search for alien technology, academic jealousy and why we must fund space explorationAbraham Loeb, known as Avi, is a professor of astrophysics at Harvard University and he has done the unthinkable. He has repeatedly been willing to contemplate the existence of nonhuman technology and how it may explain certain perplexing astronomical observations that mainstream science struggles with. Loeb, 61, is the author ofInterstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth, a follow-up to hisNew York Times bestsellerExtraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Ea...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 26, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Stuart Clark Tags: UFOs Science Technology Astronomy Physics Space US news Harvard University House of Representatives Source Type: news
One Man ’ s Quest to Heal the Oceans —And Maybe Save the World
Enric Sala—marine ecologist, conservationist, and ocean advocate—is standing under a life-size replica of a Northern Atlantic Right Whale at the natural history museum in Washington, D.C., and the air outside is smudged with wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada. It’s not surprising that Sala wants to talk about the smoke, or about whales. Their poop, however, is an unexpected twist. According to Sala, whale excrement, or, more precisely, the lack of it, has a role to play in the choking miasma that has forced my interview with one of the world’s foremost ocean explorers indoors instead of out on...
Source: TIME: Science - August 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Aryn Baker Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate TIME 2030 Source Type: news
South Africa to ban fishing around African penguin colonies for 10 years
South Africa will impose a decadelong ban on commercial fishing around six areas home to the endangered African penguin starting next year. The measure, announced by the government on 4 August, comes after an expert panel concluded that a full ban on fishing was vital for the recovery of Africa’s only penguin species.
Scientists and environmental groups have praised the move. “This is an extremely important decision, made in an emerging economy context, where so often short-term socioeconomic imperatives override longer term environmental concerns,” says Guy Midgley, interim director of the School for Climate St...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 17, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Revitalising Indigenous cultural fire practice: benefits and partnerships
Trends Ecol Evol. 2023 Aug 11:S0169-5347(23)00188-X. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.07.001. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIndigenous cultural fire practitioners proactively revitalise their stewardship/custodianship of their traditional territories to generate diverse social, cultural, economic, self-determination, and ecological benefits. Government, researchers, and natural resource managers can overcome ongoing colonial legacies by enabling Indigenous leadership, providing ongoing investment and removing imposed barriers that restrict cultural fire practices.PMID:37574393 | DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2023.07.001
Source: Trends in Ecology and Evolution - August 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Kirsten Maclean Don L Hankins Amy C Christianson Imma Oliveras Bibiana A Bilbao Oliver Costello E R Langer Cathy J Robinson Source Type: research
Perceptions about massive environmental impacts: a Brazilian study case
An Acad Bras Cienc. 2023 Jul 7;95(2):e20220335. doi: 10.1590/0001-3765202320220335. eCollection 2023.ABSTRACTThe year 2019 brought three such impacts of high socio-environmental proportions in Brazil: the dam collapse in Brumadinho, oil spills on the coast, and fires in the Amazon. We investigated the Brazilian population's perceptions of the country's overall environmental situation, the degree to which Brazilians felt affected by these impacts considering personal and social factors, and the entities they held responsible for these disasters. Through Facebook's social media networks, we disseminated structured online sur...
Source: An Acad Bras Cienc - July 12, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Fl ávia DE F Machado Gabriel DE A Batista Laura B P Souza Arleu B Viana-Junior Alessandra Bertassoni Source Type: research
Telegraphic code for fingerprints: How justice was denied to the innovator who helped ameliorate the criminal justice system
Endeavour. 2023 Jun 25:100863. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100863. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn the last decade of the nineteenth century, an Indian officer of the Bengal Police, sub-inspector Hem Chandra Bose (1867-1949) invented the telegraphic code system for fingerprints and published it in 1916. Sir Charles Stockley Collins of Scotland Yard, who is worldwide recognized as the originator of fingerprint telegraphic technique, published his findings in 1921-five years after Bose's publication. Likewise Bose devised the single digit fingerprint classification system three years prior to Harry Battley, also of the Sc...
Source: Endeavour - June 27, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jasjeet Kaur Gurvinder S Sodhi Source Type: research
