‘Don’t touch my pocket!’ South African passengers say airlines must pay for reducing their carbon footprint, not them

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Airline travel is a major contributor to anthropogenic climate change, amounting to about 4% of all global greenhouse gas emissions every year. Airlines must take specific measures to reduce, and ideally neutralise, their...

From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions in 2025

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In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASAs Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiters moon Europa. SpaceXs Starship achieved its first successful landing, a critical milestone for future deep space...

New Year’s Eve celebrates St. Silvester – the 4th-century pope whose legend shaped ideas of church and state

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On Dec. 31, while many people are preparing for their New Years Eve parties, some Roman Catholic Christians will also mark the feast day for St. Silvester. Little is known for certain about Silvesters life, but he lived...

What if you could rank food by ‘healthiness’ as you shopped? Nutrient profiling systems use algorithms to simplify picking healthy groceries

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Imagine a world where food on grocery store shelves is ranked by its healthiness, with simple, research-backed scores. In some countries, that world already exists. Nutrient profiling systems, or NPSs, support clear...

Boxing Day tsunami: here’s what we have learned in the 20 years since the deadliest natural disaster in modern history

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On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the deadliest tsunami in human...

Ten films that bend, stretch and play with time, from Citizen Kane to Memento

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The festive season can have a strange effect on our perception of time. Days blur together, hours stretch or vanish, and a sense of timelessness sets in. So, what better period to enjoy films that help us to reflect on...

Dambusters raid: a feat of courage and skill whose cost outweighed its achievement

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Operation Chastise, as the Dambusters May 1943 bouncing bomb attack on the Mhne, Eder and Sorpe dams was officially called, was a heroic example of precision bombing by the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was also a very...