While China plans to stop financing new coal plants overseas, its domestic consumption has tripled
China’s pledge to stop financing new coal plants abroad, announced by President Xi Jinping at the United Nations summit last week, has raised hopes that the world could soon wean itself off the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. But although this is a positive step from the world’s biggest emitter of...
World’s largest publishers unite to tackle rising incidence of doctored images in research papers
Some of the world’s largest publishers have come together to tackle the growing problem of image manipulation in scientific papers. They have developed a three-tier classification system that editors can use to flag suspicious content and detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to deal with doctored images. Image-integrity specialists welcome the...
‘Unstoppable’ Mo Salah a cut above Messi and Ronaldo at present, says former Liverpool striker
Mohamed Salah might just be the best player in world football on current form, insists former Liverpool striker Dean Saunders. The Reds star continued his fast start to the 2021/22 campaign with two more goals in the 5-1 thrashing of Porto on Tuesday night. It means Salah now has eight...
Ronaldo saves Man United blushes with last minute header in his 178th Champions League match
Cristiano Ronaldo did it again in the Champions League scoring a late winner for Manchester United in their 2-1 victory over Villarreal at Old Trafford. It had been a largely poor evening for the Red Devils with Alex Telles’ stunning strike cancelling out Paco Alcacer’s opener. United were far from...
Italian giants Juventus hand colourless Chelsea first Champion League loss at home in Turin
Chelsea have suffered their first Champions League defeat of the season at the hands of Italian giants Juventus, with a fine Federico Chiesa strike just 10 seconds into the second half enough to give the Old Lady a 1-0 win in Turin. After a narrow 1-0 victory over Russian side...
Guinea junta bars members from running in next elections, declares third of cabinet to be women
Guinea’s governing junta has announced that its members are barred from standing in the next national or local elections, and that it will agree on the length of transition to elections with an 81-member Transitional National Council (TNC). Earlier this month the leader of the September 5 coup, Mamady Doumbouya,...
After scoring first goal, hungrier Lionel Messi challenges his PSG strike partners to raise their game
Lionel Messi has challenged his Paris Saint-Germain strike partners Neymar and Kylian Mbappe to raise their level of play as a trio after the Argentinian opened his goal-scoring account for PSG on Tuesday night. The 34-year-old curled in a sublime goal to finish the scoring in a 2-0 win over...
PhD ladder: Ashamed, some Western universities are taking steps to close undergraduate racial award gap
When it comes to explaining the awards gap in undergraduate degrees in the United Kingdom as a whole, student experience might be a factor because Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) students often report experiencing racism on campus, and feeling that they do not fit in or that it’s not...
Why universities in the West must decolonise curricula to remove biases that impede Black students’ progress to PhD
Black students face barriers progressing to PhD programmes, and experience other career setbacks, because they are more likely to receive lower undergraduate degree classifications than their white peers, an analysis by a leading UK university has found. The study, based on exam and coursework data, and published in the journal...
Drone reforestation: Flying Forests plans to plant trees in East Africa and Panama
Like other companies involved in drone reforestation, DroneSeed is reluctant to say how many trees it has planted to date. The company would not disclose the names of customers but says it is working with three of the five largest timber companies in the US, as well as non-profit conservation...
