Category : science

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

EU court upholds insecticide ban to protect bees

An EU court upheld on Thursday a partial ban on three insecticides known as neonicotinoids, saying that the European Commission had been right in 2013 to restrict their use to protect bees. The ruling covers three active substances - imidacloprid...

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Yanny or Laurel? Soundbite sparks internet din

The collective sensory experiment causing a Twitter tizzy mushroomed from a short audio clip originally published by a high school student on Reddit, The New York Times said Wednesday. Roland Szabo, 18, said he recorded the seemingly innocuous audio...