First patient to receive a pig kidney transplant, hailed as a historical milestone, dies. Image source: Pfree2014 via Wikimedia Commons. The first patient to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the surgery, according to the hospital that performed the procedure. Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) successfully transplanted a…
A Tesla driver has been jailed for her part in a hit-and-run in Melbourne, which was falsely blamed on the car’s autopilot function. Image source: fabrikasimf, via Freepik. A Melbourne driver, who hit a pedestrian and blamed the autopilot feature in her Tesla Model 3 for the crash, has been jailed. In 2022, Nicole Lagos…
An osprey may never return to the wild from drone-related injuries, wildlife rehabilitators describe it as “heartbreaking” and ask for drone fliers to take more care with birds. Image source: Calistemon. Via: Wikimedia Commons An osprey in Shark Bay is slowly recovering from an incident involving a drone, but wildlife carers fear she will never…
Thailand is the first South-East Asian country to decriminalise cannabis, but PM Srettha Thavisin has announced it will be relisted as a banned narcotic. Image source: Per Meistrup, via Wikimedia Commons. Thailand’s prime minister Srettha Thavisin has vowed to relist cannabis as a banned narcotic by the end of 2024, only two years after its…
Pro-Palestine student protests have pushed Trinity College Dublin to cut ties with Israeli investors. Image source: Lászlo Molnárfi (SU), via X. Trinity College Dublin has pledged to cut ties with Israeli institutions after five days of student-led protests and encampments shut the campus down. University senior management agreed to the protesters’ terms following a meeting…
Two students were expelled from Yarra Valley Grammar school for creating a list ranking female peers. Image source: Pixabay, Pexels. Two boys have been expelled from an elite Melbourne private school for allegedly circulating an offensive list ranking their female peers’ attractiveness. Yarra Valley Grammar school staff discovered screenshots of a spreadsheet uploaded to social…
Israel launches air strikes on Rafah despite Hamas accepting ceasefire proposal. Source: UN Photo. Hamas has agreed to a proposal for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war, but Israel said the terms were far from acceptable and fired strikes on Rafah overnight. The proposal was put forward and mediated by Qatar and Egypt on Monday 6…
An orangutan was observed using medicinal plants to heal an injury. Image source: Wilfredor, via Wikimedia Commons A Sumatran orangutan has become the first wild animal observed to use a medicinal plant to topically heal a wound. The behaviour was observed by report co-author and field researcher Ulil Azhari in the Suaq Balimbing research area…
A panel has provided recommendations to improve literacy levels in Australian students. Image Source: Rorozoa, via Freepik Recent findings from the Literacy and Numeracy Education Expert Panel have recommended overhauling the assessment strategy and centralising literacy education in the ACT. The panel was set up in late 2023 after reports found that one third of…
Pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested across several US college campuses. Source: Jeremy Lindenfeld, X. More than 2000 pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested across multiple United States college campuses over the past several weeks. At least 200 people were arrested at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) early Thursday 2 May, after resisting instructions to…