Super Tucano now aircraft of choice in Africa for light attack, manned intelligence
Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano continues to accumulate orders in Africa, capturing a large share of the light attack and manned intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) market. Since entering production, the aircraft has been selected by more than 15 air forces in five different continents, including the United States Air Force...
Merck’s new ‘hammer’ billed a game-changer after cutting Covid hospitalisations and deaths
An investigational antiviral pill reduced the chances that patients newly diagnosed with Covid-19 would be hospitalised by about 50 per cent, a finding that could give doctors a desperately needed new way to treat the sick, the drug maker Merck has announced. A five-day course of molnupiravir, developed by Merck...
How corrupt Bolsonaro government has ramped up illegal mining in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest
Indigenous territories, long a bulwark against deforestation in the Amazon, are under increasing threat in Brazil, according to an analysis of 36 years’ worth of satellite imagery. The data show that illicit mining operations on Indigenous lands and in other areas formally protected by law have hit a record high...
Racism: Latin American researchers’ tales of discrimination and humiliation in science
As female researchers from Latin American countries (one of us now works in the United States, the other in Argentina), we’re used to career obstacles. These range from limited funding to language barriers and the ‘tax’, in terms of time and emotional energy, incurred when under-represented groups in science participate...
