Why the Rise of Rapid Tests Makes Case Counts Hard to Trust
By official counts, fewer people are being diagnosed with COVID-19 right now than at almost any other point during the pandemic. There were an average of 40,000…
Women Seem to Have Better COVID-19 Outcomes Than Men. Here’s a Theory Why
Getting vaccinated and boosted dramatically increases the likelihood of surviving a case of COVID-19, but many risk factors—like being biologically male—are outside of people’s control. In the…
Working to Reduce Overdoses As COVID-19 Rages
Emily Baldwin remembers the morning she realized that the COVID-19 pandemic was going to make her job more difficult. It was the spring of 2020, and the…
Beauty blow- campaign calls for end to polluting plastic sample sachets
Leading politicians, business leaders and campaigners are calling for an end to the use of plastic sample sachets, which they say will “pollute the planet for centuries”,…
Burberry, H&M and Stella McCartney unite to fight global warming
The brands are just some of the 43 fashion businesses to have signed the newly-unveiled ‘Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action’, a UN Climate Change initiative. Additional…
French court upholds ruling limiting Amazon deliveries during Covid-19 crisis
Amazon must limit deliveries in France to IT products, health items, food and pet food, the Court of Appeal in Versailles said, adding that for every delivery…
Hat-maker Borsalino opens museum in Italy
Giuseppe Borsalino was born in 1834, and at the age of 12 he left his family and his native village, Pecetto di Valenza, on Piedmont’s Monferrato hills…
Google’s YouTube to pay $170 million penalty for collecting data on kids
YouTube had been accused of tracking viewers of children’s channels using cookies without parental consent and using those cookies to target million of dollars in advertisements to…
Hong Kong pledges $1.3 billion in economic relief amid unrest
Hong Kong sank into recession for the first time in a decade in the third quarter as the sometimes violent protests forced businesses to shut and scared…
Bacteria makes blue jeans green
To satisfy the world’s seemingly insatiable demand for blue denim, more than 45,000 tonnes of indigo dye are produced every year, with much of the waste making…