As demand for electric vehicles grows amid a push for a ‘greener’ economy, carmakers globally are grappling with rising prices of everything from semiconductor chips to copper and aluminum. Now the expense of lithium, a metal found in every commercial electric battery, is starting to bite as a lack of mining capacity strains supplies.

Over the last few years some Swedish workers have volunteered to have microchips implanted in their hands so they no longer have to carry cash, ID, keys, gym passes etc.

Computer processors across Amazon Web Services recently hummed into gear to create 30 simulations of what Earth could look like by the middle of this century.

How the ubiquitous use of processed seed oils ushered in a new age of disease

The website earth.com carried an article a few days ago with the ridiculous claim that ‘Christmas trees are more expensive this year due to climate change’

Europe’s energy crisis is about to get a whole lot worse as the Northern Hemisphere winter is just weeks away. New risks are emerging across the continent that households and companies might have to scale back on power use or even plan for rolling blackouts.

Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) Justice presiding over a SCC case involving the unsealing of Toronto Police Services files on the double homicide investigation of Barry and Honey Sherman implicated both the UN and the WHO in the targeted murders of Barry and Honey Sherman.

As chair of the South African Medical Association and a GP of 33 years’ standing, I have seen a lot over my medical career. But nothing has prepared me for the extraordinary global reaction that met my announcement this week that I had seen a young man in my surgery who had a case of Covid that turned out to be the Omicron variant.

It’s high school all over again. Remember those people who just had to be in the in crowd, no matter what?

China announced that it’s planning a rapid expansion to its weather modification program. Most people probably didn’t know that China even had a weather modification program.

For something that is odourless, transparent and tasteless, water is actually quite interesting. Across two shows, Hannah and Adam filter out some of the more surprising properties of the liquid that literally gives us life.

Finland has succumbed to the energy crisis as households and businesses early this week paid a mind-numbing €422 per MWh (including taxes), or about five times higher than a year ago, according to data from the Nord Pool electricity exchange.

December’s night sky promises to be bright and full of as many twinkling lights as Santa’s grotto!