When Amy posts a photograph of herself on Instagram, she knows what will attract attention. A picture of her in a bikini may receive thousands of views. A post explaining the realities of living with a stoma (an opening in her abdomen that directs waste to a bag attached to it) may reach far fe...
Swidden agriculture—often called "slash-and-burn"—has been practiced on every inhabited continent throughout human history, and for decades it has been blamed for the destruction of the world's rainforests. However, a new study of more than 18,000 forest patches around the world found that the e...
I want to start with the moment that actually made this project feel real, not theoretical. We had a demo support bot running, testing random refund flows, and at some point it responded with something like: "I've gone ahead and processed your refund of $34. 50.
B"H For a while I had this recurring problem — servers would just drop off the network randomly, no clear pattern, and every time it happened I'd spend ages trying to figure out why. Nothing obvious ever connected the dots. I started running AITMonitor (a lightweight Windows server monitoring t...
Dozens of archaeological sites were destroyed by looting during Syria's civil war, which began in 2011 and lasted until 2024. Because the last comprehensive analysis was published in 2017, the extent of more recent damage to cultural heritage sites since 2016—including at UNESCO World Heritage s...
Six-time Paralympic champion Bethany Firth wins Northern Ireland's first medal at the 2026 Commonwealth Games as she claimed bronze in the women's 200m freestyle S14.