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Unusual ridge networks on Mars may provide clues about the history of the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/Caltech Murray Lab/Esri Scientists have uncovered strange ridge networks on Mars using images from spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet over the previous two decades. How and why the ridges formed, as well as what clues they may reveal about …

Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer and citizen journalist who was arrested in May while reporting from Wuhan, has been sentenced to four years in jail. Zhang was arrested for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” – an accusation commonly used against dissidents, activists and journalists – with her video and blog reports from the Wuhan …

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Image copyright Other Image caption The study assessed the effectiveness of citizen science projects in terms of engagement and the ability to gather data for the government Citizen science projects are most effective when it comes to raising awareness of some of the threats the nation’s trees are facing. However, these schemes are less productive …

Advances in technology have enabled citizens with portable equipment to film and photograph significant events and incidents, often including police responses. Sometimes these people record and post incidents of police violence, and are commonly referred to as citizen journalists. Filming or photographing incidents allows issues of social injustice to be exposed to a larger audience. When it involves …

Former Constitutional Court justice and anti-apartheid activist Zak Yacoob says the government should punish leaders who have not properly obeyed Covid-19 lockdown regulations more harshly. Yacoob was speaking via Zoom to around 250 people at a University of KwaZulu-Natal-hosted webinar on fake news, the lockdown and its unintended consequences. “When the minister [Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams] breaks …

The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre (JRCC) in Victoria is reporting the discovery of a plane crash site near Stewardson Inlet, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. According to the JRCC, a plane bound for Tofino Saturday did not arrive. 19 Wing Comox confirmed that the Search and Rescue division was called to assist in …

What does it mean to be a citizen? I have had reason to think a lot about that term recently, in all its different shades of meaning. At one level, citizenship is a legal status. Our government has tried to sharpen its definition with the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). At another level, citizenship denotes a …

Posted October 05, 2019 11:14:56 Photo: Karen Retra started counting pollinators in her backyard about 10 years ago. (ABC Goulburn Murray: Allison Jess) Science is increasingly relying on data collection from citizens to fill in the gaps on data collection, with advances in technology clearing the way forward. This year, the Australian Museum’s Frog ID …