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Study advocates cross-tier traceability to improve food safety

17 June 2026 at 21:40
The Hong Kong SAR imports more than 90% of its food, and it can be very difficult, when food safety incidents occur, to trace the source across a complex supply chain. Prof. Leng Mingming, dean of the Faculty of Business and chair professor of operations and risk management at Lingnan University, has published a new study proposing the introduction of a unified product tracing system across the food supply chain.

'Alexa, tell me a joke': How talking to AI impacts young children's development

17 June 2026 at 19:00
Children are innately curious, and throughout any given day they come up with all manner of questions: Why don't fish have hair? Why do flowers wilt so quickly? Their need to understand the worldβ€”and develop their language skills and ideasβ€”makes them tireless conversationalists.

Ancient DNA uncovers deadly plague outbreak among Siberian hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago

17 June 2026 at 16:00
Plague is commonly associated with rats, crowded medieval cities, and the epidemics that swept across Europe during and after the Middle Ages. But a new study published in Nature shows that the disease was already lethal 5,500 years ago, when it killed humans in small, mobile hunter-gatherer communitiesβ€”long before the rise of agriculture and cities created the conditions usually associated with plague epidemics.

Study finds vocational interests predict life outcomes, even for adults

17 June 2026 at 12:20
Career interest tests can be very helpful for teenagers and young adults deciding which career to pursue. New research from Michigan State University challenges the assumption that vocational interests are only relevant for early career decision-making; rather, they remain relevant into adulthood.

UK papers claimed 'lawfare' over top court's climate ruling

17 June 2026 at 12:00
UK newspapers responded to a major climate ruling by the world's top court by claiming "lawfare" and linking the decision to the U.K.'s proposed handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a new review of global media coverage has found. The review is titled Frames in Newspaper Coverage of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and Their Impact Potential.

Frozen Greenland middens preserve 4,500 years of farms, seal hunts and toilets

17 June 2026 at 05:00
Greenland has a long and checkered history of human settlement: several Paleo-Inuit cultures since approximately 2,500 BCE, descendants of Vikings between the 10th and 15th centuries, and early modern Danes since 1721. All left their traces on the landscape, for example in the form of ancient domestic rubbish heaps. Composed of waste like animal bones, excrement, mollusk shells and human artifacts, these middens are a precious resource for archaeologists.

AI-based system developed to better detect toxic online content

16 June 2026 at 23:00
A Concordia-led team of researchers has developed a new artificial intelligence-based method of detecting toxic online content that is faster and more accurate than existing tools. The system is designed to ensure social media platforms can reliably prevent user-generated content they deem harmful from appearing online.

A new explanation for the mystery death of Botticelli's Birth of Venus model, Simonetta Vespucci

16 June 2026 at 22:30
A paper on new research into the cause of death of Simonetta Vespucci, model for the world-renowned Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, has been published by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and the University of California in the journal Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism.

Subscription required? Newspaper paywalls scatter most readers but provide surprising value

16 June 2026 at 22:20
Paywalls are essential to the financial sustainability of news organizations, yet little is known about how readers respond when they encounter one. Do they subscribe, continue reading free content, look for ways around the paywall or leave the site altogether?

Data suggest 'red flag' laws are linked to sustained reductions in arrests

16 June 2026 at 21:10
Individuals subject to extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs), or "red flag" laws, were significantly less likely to be arrestedβ€”including for violent and firearm-related offensesβ€”while the orders were in effect than in the six months before. Strikingly, the drop in arrests did not end when the orders expired and continued for months afterward, according to a new study published in PNAS Nexus.

Millions of people can't access civil justice. New report shows why four decades of reform have failed

16 June 2026 at 21:00
Every year, more people in England and Wales are involved in disputes before the civil courts than in the criminal courts. More than 1 million claims a yearβ€”for personal injury, debt, housing disrepair, faulty consumer goods or breach of contract, for exampleβ€”are dealt with in the county court.

The Handala hacker group uses cyberterrorism as psychological warfare, study finds

16 June 2026 at 19:40
A new study by Prof. Gabriel Weimann, a senior researcher at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University and professor emeritus in the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa, and Daniel Haberfeld, a researcher and head of the Cyberterrorism Desk at ICT, explored the activities of the Handala hacker group, which is linked to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). The study sought to determine whether the group's operations are best characterized as cyberterrorism or psychological warfare.

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