Body of Ghanaian football star Christian Atsu killed in Turkey earthquake arrives home
The remains of Ghanaian football star Christian Atsu arrived home Sunday following his death in Turkey’s devastating earthquake. Atsu’s coffin, draped in Ghana’s flag, arrived by plane in Accra and was received by his family and with military honours. The 31-year-old athlete was discovered dead on Saturday following the 7.8-magnitude...
Despite progress, fieldwork and research remain a stumbling block for Indian women in science
It was a scorching summer morning in 2018 in rural Purulia in West Bengal, when geologist and palaeobiologist Sanjukta Chakravorti, who was working on her PhD thesis then, had taken a break from her excavations and was approached by two school girls. “Didi, what are you doing?” one of them...
One year after Russian invasion, Ukraine exposes the limits of well-funded international aid
As the power returns following one of the now frequent electricity cuts that ripple across Ukraine, Kylyna Kurochka logs on to her laptop and finds herself faced with dozens of messages, each one begging for help. “I’m 73 years old, my husband 78. We are IDPs (internally displaced people) …...
Long thought to be deaf to auditory stimulus, new research reveals snakes can actually hear
Dare to get close enough to a snake of some kind, you’ll quickly notice there’s no sign of an ear for you to whisper into. Not a flap, flop, or furrow to be seen. So, you might be mistaken to thinking they’re a little hard of hearing. “Snakes are very...
Romance and work: It’s really possible to work with a romantic partner without growing to despise them
Steve and Deonie ‘Dee’ Allen’s fates were sealed when their respective dogs, two kelpies, spotted each other from across a marina in Brisbane, Australia and became friends. The pair were living on boats three berths down from one another – and the rest, as they say, is history. Twenty-two years...
