Wildlife Poachers to Be Targeted Using State of the Art AI Listening Technology

Wildlife Poachers to Be Targeted Using State of the Art AI Listening Technology

A photo of a male forest elephant captured near the site where some of the gunshot recordings were taken – credit, Anahita Verahrami / SWNS Wildlife poachers can now be located and arrested across the central African forests thanks to state-of-the-art AI listening technology. A network of microphones has been deployed across the rainforests to … Read more

Egypt Becomes 26th Country to Eliminate Leading Cause of Infectious Blindness with Triumph Over Trachoma

Egypt Becomes 26th Country to Eliminate Leading Cause of Infectious Blindness with Triumph Over Trachoma

Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population of Egypt, receiving a commendation from Dr. Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region – credit WHO Egypt has become the 26th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health concern, building on a steady string of triumphs over tropical … Read more

Timbuktu’s Medieval Manuscripts Return Home After a Decade Away Safe from Insurgents

Timbuktu’s Medieval Manuscripts Return Home After a Decade Away Safe from Insurgents

Stacks of Timbuktu manuscripts at the Ahmed Baba Institute – credit, UNESCO Bureau of Mali, CC 4.0. INT Thousands of ancient Arabic texts have returned to their rightful place in the legendary Saharan trade city of Timbuktu after years of safe-keeping further south. Having undergone extensive digitization, fear that the content of the manuscripts may … Read more

Western South Africa Sees Leopards Returning to Ancestral Habitat After 170 Years

Western South Africa Sees Leopards Returning to Ancestral Habitat After 170 Years

A camera trap photo of the leopard – supplied by SANparks For an astonishing 170 years, there hasn’t been a leopard sighting on the western coast of South Africa. That recently changed when South Africa National Parks (SANparks) published a camera trap photograph of a leopard in West Coast NP, showing how the elusive predator … Read more

‘Music to my Ears’: New Malaria Drug Succeeds in Large Clinical Trial to Combat Resistance

‘Music to my Ears’: New Malaria Drug Succeeds in Large Clinical Trial to Combat Resistance

Dunpharlain, CC license Among the world’s manifold disease burdens, antibiotic resistant bacteria hold a special place of concern. But recent evidence points to the malaria parasite also developing resistance to drugs that have been working to killed it off for the last quarter-century. Therefore, news that a major drug trial looking at the efficacy of … Read more

Grand Egyptian Museum Finally Opens in Sight of the Pyramids After Decades of Setbacks

Grand Egyptian Museum Finally Opens in Sight of the Pyramids After Decades of Setbacks

The Grand Egyptian Museum’s stunning geometric exterior – credit, Grand Egyptian Museum handout A $1 billion museum built to showcase the finest of ancient Egyptian artifacts has finally been opened in Giza after more than 2 decades of planning, building, and setbacks. Fireworks and drone light shows lit up the desert night. Below, a gala … Read more

Scientists Create a Google Maps of the Roman Empire–Plan Your Trip Along Their Famous Roads

Scientists Create a Google Maps of the Roman Empire–Plan Your Trip Along Their Famous Roads

A roadway near Timgad – Credit Itiner-e, Artas Media, MINERVA. It was said that all roads lead to Rome, but from where do all the roads to Rome lead? Using a mountain of data, a team of two dozen scientists have created a digital road atlas of the Roman imperial world, complete with many features … Read more