Children who speak more than one language seem to have a learning advantage: Being bilingual can improve childrens problem-solving skills and creative thinking, a new study suggests. The mental sharpness needed to switch between two languages may develop skills that boost other types of thinking, explained researchers from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. «Bilingualism is

Following NSA surveillance revelations, talks advance on making the privacy-protecting tool Tor an Internet standard. The Internet’s main engineers have asked the architects of Tor—networking software designed to make Web browsing private—to consider turning the technology into an Internet standard. If widely adopted, such a standard would make it easy to include the technology in consumer and

Indoor location technology brings Internet-style tracking to physical spaces. You’ve just tossed a jar of peanut butter in your grocery cart when your smartphone buzzes. You glance down at the screen to see a message that seems downright clairvoyant: Buy some jelly. Get $1 off. Convenient? Certainly. Creepy? Maybe. This is one vision for indoor positioning, a fast-evolving technology that is

As Sony celebrates hitting 2m PS4s sold in the UK, MCV meets UK MD Fergal Gara to discuss price wars, the next generation of PS4 owners and what has happened to all the games... «ANY PRICE WAR IN THE MARKET CAN BE DANGEROUS»

GreenEDGE Cycling will be called ‘ Team Manuela Fundación’ for the remainder of the 2020 season, and fully incorporate a new ‘look’ when racing resumes, thanks to a new agreement with the Manuela Fundación. The long-term agreement comes as welcome news in a difficult period for the global sport industry with impacts from COVID-19, such as competition cancellations and postponements and job losses

An extinct animal has been brought back to life for the first time after being cloned from frozen tissue. The Pyrenean ibex, a form of wild mountain goat, was officially declared extinct in 2000 when the last-known animal of its kind was found dead in northern Spain. Shortly before its death, scientists preserved skin samples of the goat, a subspecies of the Spanish ibex that live in mountain

What is Future News Worldwide? In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's Future News Worldwide conference will again be online. 2021's theme is ‘Climate, COVID-19 and the rise of disinformation: how journalism can best serve a world in crisis’. Future News Worldwide is a partnership programme between the British Council and some of the world's leading media organisations. The

Moussa Sie, Africa Rice Breeding Task Force coordinator

Global Journal of Health Science (GJHS) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, published by Canadian Center of Science and Education. It publishes original research, applied, and educational articles in all areas of health and medicine.

When in June 2007, the then President of Ghana, John Kufuor announced that the country had found oil in commercial quantity; he promised Ghanaians that life would be good. But almost 18 years since Ghana became an oil producer it appears – only a few have benefitted substantially– especially those closer to and appointed by him. Among them are a medical doctor and his