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| Plastic particles found in bottled water Tests on major brands of bottled water have found that nearly all of them contained tiny particles of plastic. In the largest investigation of its kind, 250 bottles bought in nine different countries were examined. Research led by journalism organisation Orb Media discovered an average of 10 plastic particles ...
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| Past and future drought in Mongolia The severity of recent droughts in semiarid regions is increasingly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, but it is unclear whether these moisture anomalies exceed those of the past and how past variability compares to future projections. On the Mongolian Plateau, a recent decade-long drought ...
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| FDA moves forward on nicotine regulation in cigarettes The Food and Drug Administration is taking the first steps toward implementing a rule about the maximum level of nicotine in combustible cigarettes, after an announcement of its plans last summer that rocked stocks of tobacco companies. The agency is publishing an advanced notice of proposed ...
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| Democrats see hopeful signs in Pennsylvania As Election Day approached in this south-west corner of Pennsylvania, Steve Mallon, a registered Republican, put up a campaign sign on his lawn in the Pittsburgh suburbs. But the sign was not for his party's chosen congressional candidate, Rick Saccone. It was for Democrat Conor Lamb. "First time ...
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| Trump Organization 'negotiated with sanctioned Russian bank in 2016' It is not clear from the Democrats' memo whether the deal they are referring to is the same deal mentioned in Sater's emails. In another email obtained by the newspaper, Sater wrote that he would get "Putin on this programme and we will get Donald elected". Trump eventually signed a non-binding ...
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'Enough': US students come together in spectacular walkout to end gun violence Thousands of students poured out of classrooms in the US on Wednesday in an unprecedented expression of mourning and a demand for action to stem the country's epidemic of gun violence. In a stunning visual riposte to the public inertia that has followed mass shootings in the US, crowds of students ...
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| Med Students Are Getting Terrible Training in Robotic Surgery In traditional surgery, the resident gets hands-on action, holding back tissue, for instance. Robotic systems might have two control consoles, but attendings rarely grant residents simultaneous control. According to UC Santa Barbara's Matt Beane—who recently published a less-than-rosy report on robot ...
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In defense of real books The latest trend in tech appears to be hating tech, whether that means breaking up with our phones, taking breaks from online news (if that's what you call a "break"), or disavowing Facebook. Some of this tech backlash is deserved and long overdue. In just the span of a decade, some of us have become ...
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| Dream home? India's privatised city – in pictures Inspired by traditional Indian travelling photography studios, Arthur Crestani photographed the inhabitants of Gurgaon, a city built almost entirely by private companies. Crestani is one of 16 European photographers in the Jury 2018 selection at the Circulations Festival , being held 17 March-6 May in ...
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| Advances in human behaviour came surprisingly early in Stone Age Excavations in Kenya suggest improvements in stone tools and other human changes are linked to variations in climate. ... Early humans in eastern Africa crafted advanced tools and displayed other complex behaviours tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, according to a trio of ...
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