Humanity's homeland found in ancient Botswana
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Month: October 2019
This Alaska mine could generate $1 billion a year. Is it worth the risk to salmon?
A giant open-pit copper and gold dig above Alaska's Bristol Bay could yield sales of more than $20 billion in two decades, but Pebble Mine would place the world's greatest wild salmon run at risk forever.
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An Advocate For Kazakhs Persecuted In China Is Banned From Activism In Kazakhstan
Serikjan Bilash signed a plea deal after Kazakh officials charged him with "inciting ethnic tensions" for his work documenting repression against Kazakhs and in China's Xinjiang region.
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Video games in China: beyond the great firewall
On the ground in the vast world of Chinese gaming.
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Why you should worry if you have a Chinese smartphone
China’s use of technology for social control of its citizens is extensive – but it could affect users elsewhere too, says security analyst Samantha Hoffman
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Smartphones continue to change North Korean society
Smartphones are driving major changes in North Korean lifestyles, several Daily NK sources in Pyongyang recently reported.
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Amazon rainforest ‘close to irreversible tipping point’
Forecast suggests rainforest could stop producing enough rain to sustain itself by 2021
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‘Mozart would have made video game music’: composer Eímear Noone on a winning art form
Eímear Noone got into composing and conducting video game music by accident. One day, while studying music at Trinity College Dublin, a fourth-year student came to the bar she was drinking in with members of the college chapel choir and offered them a few quid to help with the orchestration on a project of his.
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50,000-year-old, tar-smeared tool shows Neanderthal smarts
Rare, submerged tool suggests Neanderthals had mastered the complex technology of tarmaking
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Ancient Middle Eastern Astrologers Recorded the Oldest-Known Evidence of Auroras
Scientists have discovered what may be the oldest written records of auroras to date. They were hidden in ancient cuneiform tablets from the Middle East.
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