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Biodegradable Sile Sensors Promise Greener, Smairter Fairmin
Engineers at the University o Glesga hae developed a grundbrakin screen-prinited sensor that can be left tae brak doon in sile efter yaise. The sensor is meant tae track sile traits sic as pH an temperature. It is made fae materials that, whan they decay, serve as plant feed. The sensor is pairt o the…
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Unison Warns o Soarin Private Ambulance Costs Amid Scottish NHS Fundin Boost
Scottish halth buirds are spendin mair on private ambulance services as budgets tichten, accordin tae new figures pit oot by UNISON. Data shaws that spendin by five NHS buirds rase fae £0.52 million in 2020/21 tae £1.34 million in 2024/25 – an increase o ower 150%. Whan figurs fae three additional buirds wur added, the…
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“Speak Proper!”: The Langstaundin Classism Haudin Scots Speakers Wheesht an the Howp o New Legislation
Scots speakers ower Scotland face daily pressure tae abandon their native tongue in favour o Staundart English durin formal interactions—whither at doctor’s appyntments, bank visits, job interviews, or local cooncil meetins. This enforced code-switchin is a legacy o langstaundin class bias an discrimination, whit haes unjuistly labelled the Scots leid as inferior. Hooanivver, a proponed…
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ETERNAL Project Targets Greener Pharmaceutical Manufacturin
A pan‐European collaboration cryed the ETERNAL project is set tae transform pharmaceutical manufacturin by reducin its environmental fitprint throu sustainable chemical an physical processes. The initiative, that brings thegither saxteen pairtners fae industry, academia, an research institutes, emphasises fu life cycle approaches—fae drug design an manufacture tae product disposal—for tae minimise pollution, resoorce depletion, an…
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Fae Social Media Attacks tae Pairlamentary Pledge: The Fecht for the Scots Leid
Recent social media activity has shawn a surge in negative comments aimed at supporters o the Scots leid. Critics on platform X hae dismissed Scots as “puir English” an a mere dialect, aften invokin lang-held class-based stereotypes. Sic comments reinforce a nairrae wey o seein Scots that links the leid wi law social status an…
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Kilometres-Wide, Heich-Speed UAP Spotted Ower Kiev, Muin, an Ukraine Battlefield
A study by Ukraine’s Main Astronomical Observatory has shed new licht on unco, fast-muivin aerial objects. Yaisin heich-tech imagin methods, scientists observed UAPs—unidentified aerial phenomena—in three gey different settins. The wark pynts oot objects that trot oor skies wi speeds abuin Mach 2.5 an seem as dark as a bare black cloot. In ae set…