Health & Science

Thursday, April 6th 2023 - 14:49 UTC
The truth about cell phone “spying”: Can our phones really listen to us?

Cell phone “spying” is a long-standing suspicion that is fueled by the exclusive “coincidences” between what is talked about near the device and what happens later in interest.
Thursday, March 30th 2023 - 10:43 UTC
ARA Irízar off to final stage of Antarctic campaign

Argentine Navy icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar Captain Carlos Recio announced that the unit had “complied with all the tasks emanating from the operations order of the Joint Antarctic Commander, also carrying out more than 600 movements of scientific and military personnel between the different joint Antarctic bases” and was therefore on her way to the last stage of the ”Antarctic Summer Campaign (CAV) 2022/2023,” it was reported.
Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 14:09 UTC
Pause AI development: Open letter from world's tech leaders urges labs to stop

Elon Musk and many other experts around the world have recently signed a petition requesting a six-month pause on research into artificial intelligence (AI) that is more powerful than ChatGPT 4, the OpenAI model that was launched this month.
Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 10:28 UTC
Dengue kills 6 in Argentina

Health authorities in the Argentine province of Tucumán Tuesday reported three more deaths due to dengue, which after last week's casualties, brings the total number of fatalities to six nationwide.
Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 10:18 UTC
WHO changes its mind on further Covid-19 vaccination schemes

The World Health Organization (WHO) has reviewed its guidelines on whom to keep vaccinating against Covid-19. As per the global agency's new recommendations, countries were advised to reconsider whether to continue giving booster shots to low-risk groups, such as healthy children and adolescents.
Monday, March 27th 2023 - 19:45 UTC
Argentina bans the sale and import of e-cigarettes

The Ministry of Health of Argentina has prohibited the importation, distribution, commercialization, and advertising of different types of electronic cigarettes and their accessories “throughout the national territory”, due to their potential harm to health.
Saturday, March 25th 2023 - 10:36 UTC
Falklands, no confirmed cases of avian influenza in wild or domestic birds

The Veterinary Department can confirm that, following a major implementation of enhanced bio-security across the Islands, there have, to date, been no confirmed cases of avian influenza (bird flu) in the Falkland Islands wild or domestic birds.
Friday, March 24th 2023 - 10:27 UTC
Latin America and Caribbean: 37 million people lack drinking water

The Organization of American States (OAS) denounced this week that some 37 million people in the region lacked drinking water and cited climate change as a possible cause.
Friday, March 24th 2023 - 02:33 UTC
Crops revolution: England allows gene-edited food to be developed commercially

Gene-edited food can now be developed commercially in England following a change in the law, reports BBC. Supporters of the technology say it will speed up the development of hardier crops that will be needed because of climate change.
Thursday, March 23rd 2023 - 10:35 UTC
China's pork industry again faces an outbreak of African swine fever

A surge in African swine fever infections in China is set to reduce hog output later this year, farm managers and analysts said this week, pushing up prices in the world’s top pork consumer as demand recovers.