Science & Technology

Illegal logging is an ongoing threat. But machine learning could be used to distinguish endangered timber species from commoner ones – enabling logs that have illegally entered the timber market to be identified.

Lead is one of the oldest metals known to man and therefore it deserves special emphasis in the international year of the Periodic Table of the Elements (2019). Its essentiality has been discussed but not demonstrated, yet its toxicity has already been recognized by Greek and Arab scholars.