Plantain waste can be reduced in Nigeria and used in the production of wine.
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Increasing the quality of a traditional wine sourced from plantain in Nigeria offers a viable way of reducing waste and boosting food security.
Phishers are crafty and their scams are always evolving.
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Cybercriminals don’t take breaks, so you shouldn’t ever drop your guard.
Andriamamelo cave art panel.
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Rock art from a Malagasy cave hints at some remarkable cultural connections.
Drone view of men with fishing rods on the beach at Gqeberha, South Africa.
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Increased interest in recreational fishing with drones has led to concern about its environmental and social impact.
The pieces of Libyan desert glass that formed the basis of the study.
Libyan desert glass originated from the impact of a meteorite on the Earth’s surface.
Beads from Jarigole site.
Carla Klehm.
Mineralogical analysis of 5,000-year-old stone beads from Turkana, Kenya suggest a novel mortuary tradition by early pastoralists.
The author handling a boomslang as part of her work with a conservation organisation.
Chris Cooke
Learning about snakes offers unique insights into the natural world.
There are some practical ways to filter the amount of violent and graphic content you see on social media.
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Whatever approach you take to managing your feeds, remain cautious and sceptical.
An unidentified fungal killer swept through a South African pine plantation in the 1980s.
Rodger Shagam
Through a blend of perseverance, technology, and a touch of serendipity, it was possible to solve a decades-old mystery.
A potsherd. The portion shown is of a pot rim with incised parallel lines.
Photo: Courtneay Hopper.
Archaeological data alone can’t always help to answer researchers’ questions: multiple lines of evidence are needed.
Visitors engage with artefacts at the exhibit.
Robyn Walker
The exhibit offers a close look at the problematic history of palaeoanthropology.
Proboscideans and their tooth structures in various forms across 60 million years of evolution.
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Groundbreaking study demonstrates how behaviour drives long-term evolution over 20 million years.
Sampling marine sponges for bioprospecting.
Davide Seveso
A marine sponge from Mauritius has shown potential as the source of compounds that kill liver cancer cells.
Puff adders leave linear, sometimes slightly undulating traces.
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The trace was probably made between 93,000 and 83,000 years ago, almost certainly by a puff adder.
A digital composite of a meteor shower speeding towards Earth.
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Meteorites are usually discovered by someone who notices an unusual rock while out walking.
Aerial view of Lagos Island.
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An AI model shows that building collapses in Lagos are location specific, and soil testing can help to check them.
The fossils with the carbon fibre tube they were kept in on the space flight.
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Experts insist there is no scientific reason for allowing these fossils to travel to space.
Sonya Pemberton on location filming in Norway.
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To build trust with an audience, scientists must demonstrate that they are competent experts. But they must also come across as warm, caring and human.
Tidal surges can cause enormous damage.
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Local communities need to be warned more clearly and effectively if there is a threat of a storm surge and of coastal flooding.
The lessons pollen can teach us are not to be sneezed at.
Elisa Manzati
Pollen can become preserved in sediment deposits over thousands, or even millions, of years.
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The earthquake was caused by the collision of two tectonic plates.
Collapsed buildings after the earthquake in Moulay Brahim, Morocco.
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Earthquakes cannot be predicted; the best tools to mitigate the impact are seismic hazard studies.
Possible shod hominin tracks in the Garden Route National Park, South Africa.
Charles Helm
Trackway findings support the notion of southern Africa being one region where human cognitive and practical ability developed a very long time ago.
Cakase Kruiper, a San elder, explains her connection to the cosmos in the film !Aitsa.
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To the ǀXam and San people, being in the world as a person includes “the sky’s things” - an understanding of and deep connection with the cosmos.
Genetic modification could make malaria-carrying mosquitoes harmless.
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Methods that don’t rely on insecticides are needed to bolster the fight against mosquito-borne diseases.