Knowing where the ditches are is important to understand where there is a risk of flooding and where to find the best opportunities to restore wetlands. Unfortunately, only around nine percent of all ditches in Sweden are marked on maps.But now researchers from the...
We're gaining an ever-growing range of tools to monitor our health, meaning that in the future we could receive more proactive care, according to researchers from Karolinska Institutet and the University of Helsinki. Researchers have investigated how a...
Researchers at the University of California Riverside, UCR, have developed a new way of dealing with oil spills at sea. They have developed a kind of film that floats on water and is able to navigate – a floating robot in other words."Our motivation was to...
Physical exercise is good for staying healthy. There are studies that show that endurance and fitness training reduces the risk of obesity, lowers blood pressure, maintains brain functions, and more. Exercising is, thereby, one of the best ways to stay healthy, but...
Airtel Africa, one of the continent's leading providers of telecommunications and mobile money services, has launched the Airtel Money MasterCard virtual payment solution in Zambia. It enables the countries Airtel Money clients to make global e-commerce payments...
A startup called Notpla has created a new type of packaging made from plants and seaweed. While it looks like plastic, it was designed to replace plastic, and the name is actually short for “not plastic.” "Notpla is a seaweed-based, sustainable...