Victoria Gill Almost all pheasants sold for food in the UK contain toxic lead shot, scientists have found. The discovery comes one year into a five-year transition to non-toxic shotgun ammunition – a move backed by nine UK shooting organisations. Of 180 birds examined by the scientists, 179 were shot with lead. One shooting group […]
Issued on: 23/02/2021 – 03:28 Advertising Read more Vienna (AFP) While Austria has struggled to contain the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, it is fast emerging as a world leader in testing as a way to reopen schools and businesses. The small nation with a population of just under nine million tested three million […]
Astronomers have developed a new technique to search for exoplanets – by looking for their crushed up bones in the atmospheres of white dwarfs. And it’s working. The search for planets outside the solar system, known as exoplanets, has one significant limitation: we can only find exoplanets that exist right now. But our universe has […]
Issued on: 10/01/2021 – 22:33 French authorities said on Sunday they were racing to contain the more infectious variant of Covid-19 first found in Britain, which has now been detected in France’s Mediterranean port of Marseille and in the Alps. Advertising Read more Marseille Mayor Benoit Payan said seven to eight people had tested positive […]