Amnesty International has said that armed conflicts and state repression were causes of human rights abuses in Africa. The organisation in its annual review of human rights in the region on Tuesday said rights defenders in Africa were persecuted and harassed for standing up and speaking out against governments. According to the report, there…
Following several stories by SaharaReporters on the unjust sacking of six nurses attached to the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo State, the state government has now told the affected persons to deny the reports by the online news publication before being reinstated into service. In a letter signed by Adeeyo Babatunde, Director of Administration…
Boko Haram terrorists are currently attacking Ngala in Borno State, SaharaReporters can confirm. The attack comes less than 24 hours after the insurgents pounced on Kirchinga under Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State on Monday night, razing no fewer than five houses. The insurgents launched the attack after they emerged from Rann near the border with Cameroon in…
Does a cell surface protein explain why the coronavirus is more likely to kill people with diabetes or heart disease? Researchers are trying to find out Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632773-500-does-the-ace2-protein-explain-covid-19-risk-for-underlying-conditions/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237475-coronavirus-latest-no-new-deaths-in-china-and-hopes-of-plateau-in-nyc/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
There are three main strategies for leaving coronavirus lockdown, but each risks a dangerous second wave and further lockdowns if things don’t go as planned Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632773-600-coronavirus-exit-strategies-how-do-we-get-out-of-lockdown/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
Australia’s record-breaking heatwave early this year bleached 60 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef, affecting all three of its regions for the first time Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/2239957-the-great-barrier-reef-has-suffered-its-most-widespread-bleaching-yet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
The video game Resident Evil 3 was in development long before the coronavirus outbreak, but it holds up a mirror to the strange times we live in today Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/2239924-resident-evil-3-review-a-glimpse-into-post-pandemic-fiction/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
Stress in childhood is linked to developing adult-like brain networks and cells that age slowly, and children with early life stress progress slowly through puberty Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/2239945-stress-early-in-life-can-make-a-childs-brain-more-like-an-adults/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
Contagion was a film released in 2011 about a fictional pandemic of a virus called MEV-1 which kills between 25 and 30 per cent of those it infected. Here is our review of the film originally published in September 2011, now that it’s on Netflix Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/2239913-how-realistic-is-contagion-the-movie-doesnt-skimp-on-science/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0