A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in France and one in the United Arabian Emirates, has found via testing that dogs may be as effective at mass screening people for COVID-19 as publicly available tests, Phys.org reports.
In their paper published on the open-access site PLOS ONE, the group describes how they tested multiple dogs sniffling human sweat samples for COVID-19 and how well they did.
Prior research has suggested that dogs can smell it when someone...
Gunmen have killed church worshippers in Ondo state, southwest Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has said.
He added that "only fiends from the nether region" could have done this.
The armed men entered St Francis Catholic church in the town of Owo during a Sunday service. They fired into the congregation and then kidnapped a priest as well as some other churchgoers, witnesses said.
Nigeria has experienced a surge in violence in recent months with kidnappings and attacks...
Narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism are very common among CEOs, despite ample evidence that these dark personality traits pose financial and managerial risks to organizations. Their prevalence on corporate boards – nearly three times the general population – suggests that on some levels anti-social behaviour may benefit business management.
A new study published in the Strategic Management Journal in May reveals one such instance, finding that companies with Machiavellian CEOs have a net income savings of over 6.6%...
A week has gone by but the stadium "fiasco" remains a hot issue in France, with new and harrowing accounts about the breakdown in law and order when the match had come to an end.
Among Liverpool fans whose translated testimony has been circulating widely on social media is UFC champion Paddy Pimblett, who said he had "never been so scared in my life … as when I came out of that ground on Saturday...
Turkey will be known as Türkiye at the United Nations from now on, after it agreed to a formal request from Ankara.
Several international bodies will be asked to make the name change as part of a rebranding campaign launched by the Turkish president late last year, the BBC reports.
"Türkiye is the best representation and expression of the Turkish people's culture, civilization, and values," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in December.
The UN says it made the...
Ford's chief executive says he expects the cost of building electric vehicles to fall to the point that in coming years automakers will be battling each other for sales of EVs priced around $25,000, reports Tech Xplore.
CEO Jim Farley told the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference on Wednesday that the $25,000 price tag will democratize EVs. Materials to build that vehicle will cost around $18,000, he said.
"So I believe ... our industry is definitely heading to a huge...
Russia has accused the U.S. of seeking to prolong the war in Ukraine after President Biden said he would supply Kyiv with new long-range missiles.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the U.S. was "intentionally adding fuel to the fire" with the deliveries.
"Such supplies do not contribute to the Ukrainian leadership's willingness to resume peace negotiations," he added.
Separately, the German government has promised to send an air defence system to Ukraine.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz told MPs that...
A Texas law forbidding social media giants from regulating certain forms of online speech has been blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The legislation would have prevented larger tech companies from banning or censoring Texas users for their views.
Republicans in the state said it was necessary to combat what they claimed was social media's liberal bias.
But tech groups argued that the law was a violation of the private companies' freedom of speech rights.
In a rare...
The world needs abundant, low-emission power, and advanced nuclear reactors for years have promised an attractive source of that, as well as a supplement to intermittent renewable energy from the Sun and wind.
So-called small modular reactors (SMRs), which can generate up to a third of the power of existing gigawatt-scale plants, are promoted as less expensive and cumbersome than conventional light-water reactors.
Regulatory and other barriers preventing their construction are substantial – and have eclipsed scrutiny...
After President Joe Biden said the U.S. will not send to Ukraine rocket systems that can reach into Russia, a former Russian president has called that view "sensible".
Dmitry Medvedev, who led Russia from 2008 to 2012, warned if the country's cities were "attacked," Moscow would have to follow through on its "threat to strike the centres taking these criminal decisions."
"Some of them are not in Kyiv at all," he added, signalling the message was intended...
