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For city folk, 'cutting edge' technology goes by gigahertz, gigabytes and RAM, but the bush has a sophisticated slowness to science and tech.

The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate is focusing on extending screening services on hypertension to Persons Living with Disabilities (PWDs) as Ghana joins the rest of the world to mark World Hypertension Day.

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates gathered over the weekend to celebrate their daughter Jennifer's graduation, who welcomed her first child earlier this year

Lightweight sustainable 8m mini wind/solar powered fish­ing canoes could be the future for sustainable fishing transport for 10 women of five provinces....

In this issue, our feature highlights a Makah artist who preserves the stories of his ancestors and their reciprocal relationship to whales. We also follow two female botanists as they raft down the Grand Canyon in an attempt to make the first recorded, botanical survey of the region. Elsewhere, a FEMA contractor’s incompetence in translating Alaska Native languages shows systemic problems. In a Colorado coal town, the discovery of a 74 million-year-old fossil brings a new kind of tourism. A team of epidemiologists in Washington prepares for climate change. In Wyoming, off-rez hunting is un...