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SA’s leopard population remains uncertain as new strategy weighs conservation and hunting

South Africa’s new draft leopard conservation strategy aims to balance preservation with cultural use and hunting, despite lacking reliable data on how many leopards actually remain in the wild.

SA’s leopard population remains uncertain as new strategy weighs conservation and hunting

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Improving urban flood forecasting with real-time hazardous rainfall detection

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) announced that it will apply its early detection technology for quasi-stationary linear rainbands and sudden localized torrential rainfall to the Urban Flood Forecasting Platform operated by the Han River Flood Control Office in Korea for urban flood forecasting.

World’s 1st Electric Power Steering Systems Registered in Japan as ‘Essential Historical Materials for Science and Technology’

The National Museum of Nature and Science registered 13 new items, including the world’s first electric power steering systems that assist a driver to steer an automobile, as Essential Historical…

  • World's first electric power steering systems registered in Japan
  • National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo collects items
  • Electric power steering enhances fuel efficiency and reduces space

Has the James Web Space Telescope Discovered a New 'Black Hole Star'?

The James Webb Space Telescope has been picking up little red dots in almost every image, writes Quanta magazine. And now two teams of astronomers propose they're looking at a new astronomical object…

  • James Webb Space Telescope discovered mysterious red dots in images
  • Astronomers propose these dots may be a new type of black hole star
  • Simulations suggest these dots are rapidly growing black holes from early universe

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