Kenya’s highest court recently struck down as unconstitutional a law that forbade seed sharing, a long practiced traditional means of diversifying crop production and resilience. The law, whether inadvertently or by design, made Kenya another cou…
An artificial intelligence model developed by the Mayo Clinic can help specialists detect pancreatic cancer on routine abdominal CT scans up to three years before clinical diagnosis, according to a new study. The AI can identify subtle signs of disease…
Some rescue dog transformations are so profound that they restore your faith in second chances. Dobby’s journey from squalor to a new family home is one of those stories. Found trembling in appalling conditions, the resilient pup now spends her days pl…
A 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy was discovered buried with a fragment of papyrus that contained a short passage from Homer’s Iliad, marking the first time that literature—instead of a ‘magical or ritual text’—has been found incorporated directly into a…
Preparing a home cooked meal at least once a week may cut the risk of dementia for seniors by 30%. And the risk may be 70% lower in novice cooks with few culinary skills, suggested the study published in March in the Journal of Epidemiology & Commu…
For a Saskatchewan tow truck driver with work still to be done last Saturday, it was immediately clear what took priority. The frozen moose trapped in the ice of a lake came first, and Clint Gottinger, owner of Rebel Towing, told his clients like it wa…
