Health & Science

Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 08:16 UTC
New iceberg calved into Antarctica's Weddel Sea

A 1,550 km2 iceberg broke off from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf, British scientists reported Monday. “The 1,550-square-kilometer block of ice broke off the ice shelf between 7 pm and 8 pm Sunday after a strong tide widened an existing crack in the ice shelf,” the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explained.
Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 15:58 UTC
A news site set AI to write text and had to cancel the whole thing: it turns out bad

The U.S. technology website CNET has stopped publishing articles written by Artificial Intelligence (AI), at least for the time being, as reported by The Verge.
Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 09:47 UTC
Brazil: Health emergency declared in Yanomami territory

Brazilian authorities declared a public health emergency in the territories where the native Yanomami community resides in Roraima and set up the Center of Operations for Emergencies in Public Health (COE - Yanomami) reporting directly to the Indigenous Health Department (SESAI).
Friday, January 20th 2023 - 19:39 UTC
Vizzotti, Manzur land in Tucumán as healthcare workers catch pneumonia

Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti and Cabinet Chief Juan Manzur arrived in Tucumán Friday after five healthcare professionals were reported to be suffering from pneumonia. Manzur is also a physician and a former federal Health Minister (2009-2015), in addition to being the current Governor of Tucumán, albeit on unpaid leave while discharging duties for the federal government.
Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:23 UTC
New Emperor Penguin colony discovered in Antarctica with satellite mapping

Scientists have discovered a new emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite mapping technology. This new colony makes a total of 66 known emperor penguin colonies around the coastline of Antarctica, with exactly half having been discovered by satellite imagery.
Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:00 UTC
Penguin Awareness Day; Falklands home of five species, King, Magellanic, Gentoo, Rockhopper, Macaroni

Penguin Awareness Day is celebrated on January 20 of every year. Penguins are a group of aquatic and flightless birds. They live in the Southern Hemisphere, and a particular species of the Penguin named Galapagos Penguin is found only in the north equator region called Temperate Zone.
Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:10 UTC
HMS Protector play football at the most southerly and rugged pitch: South Georgia

Sailors from the Royal Navy went head to head with British Antarctic Survey staff during a game of football on the most southerly – and arguably the worst – pitch in the world. The playing field, at Grytviken, the largest settlement of South Georgia Island, in the South Atlantic, is billed as the most southerly in the world, some 2,476 miles from the South Pole, to be precise.
Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 10:26 UTC
Newest Omicron variant: WHO recommends air passengers to wear masks on long haul flights

Given the fast spread of the newest Omicron variant of Covid 19, countries should require air passengers to wear masks on long-haul flights, the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially requested.
Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:31 UTC
BAS and WWF “Walrus Detectives” project with satellite surveying to understand the Arctic marine mammals

This week British Antarctic Survey and World Wide Fund, WWF, are inviting the public to become ‘walrus detectives’ and get involved in the Walrus from Space project to help with vital research to enable a better understanding of these Arctic marine mammals.
Monday, January 16th 2023 - 10:23 UTC
“Anthropogenic noise impairs cooperation in bottlenose dolphins”, University of Bristal study

Dolphins working collaboratively are less successful in the presence of sound generated by humans, a University of Bristol-led team of researchers have shown. The findings, published in Current Biology, imply that dolphins cannot minimize the impact of human-made noise, even by adjusting their own vocal behavior.