Public posts on social media platforms shed light on the extent and nature of prolific illegal wildlife hunting in Lebanon, research in Oryx—The International Journal of Conservation, published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Fauna & Flora, has found. 

The study is the first to use social media as a tool for assessing illegal hunting activities in Lebanon. The country, along with the Mediterranean region more broadly, is a global poaching blackspot, particularly for the illegal killing of protected birds.  

The George Daniels' Educational Trust has made an extraordinary donation of £1.2 million to support engineering students from disadvantaged backgrounds at City St George’s, University of London.

This remarkable gift aims to champion social mobility by funding bursaries that will transform lives and provide new opportunities for those facing financial challenges.

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A new study led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute examined the effects of a January 2019 Medicare opioid safety policy aimed at reducing high-risk opioid prescribing and related harms among these beneficiaries.

Though the policy was associated with immediate reductions in initial prescription duration and concurrent multiple-prescriber high-dosage episodes, these reductions decreased over time, highlighting the need for further interventions to address clinical and social risk factors of opioid misuse.

In our digital times as we are inundated with YouTube videos, memes and social media, satire is everywhere, but it can be more damaging to people's reputations than direct criticism, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. 

In swarm research, a new method makes it possible to track the eye movements of fish automatically, non-invasively and in 3D. Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "Collective Behaviour" and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz explain why this is important for understanding the "rules of the swarm".