THE INCREDIBLE EDIBLE FOREST

You’ve heard of farm to table. Coming soon: park to table. This spring, in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, seven acres of underused land will be transformed into the nation’s largest urban “food forest”—a community park planted with a cornucopia of produce that visitors are encouraged to harvest and eat, for free.

US RESEARCHERS BUILD ‘WASTE WATER GENERATOR’

Researchers in the US have built a prototype device which they say can generate electricity from waste water. The team at Pennsylvania State University says the technology would simultaneously treat the water.

BRITISH GALLERIES BUY RENAISSANCE MASTERPIECE

Two major British art galleries have raised 45 million pounds ($72 million) to buy a Renaissance masterpiece that has been in the U.K. for 200 years and keep it on public display — a purchase announced Thursday as a substantial cultural victory in tough economic times.

US AIMS TO EMPOWER WORLD’S WOMEN FARMERS

US Aims to Empower World’s Women Farmers.

U.S. aid officials are launching a new way to measure whether their efforts to empower women farmers are working.

For the full article: VOA News

FLAG FEN ARCHAEOLOGY IDEA BRINGS IN PUBLIC TO DIG DEEP

Renowned Bronze Age archaeological site Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire will host a first-of-its-kind dig that makes the public integral to the project.

THE RASPBERRY PI COMPUTER GOES ON GENERAL SALE

A credit-card sized computer designed to help teach children to code goes on general sale for the first time today. The Raspberry Pi is a bare-bones, low-cost computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry.

WANT TO STAY MENTALLY YOUNG? HAVE MORE FISH

Want to stay mentally young? Have more fish – Hindustan Times.

Want to stay mentally forever young? Make it a sushi or baked salmon dinner. Because according to a new study, a diet lacking in omega-3 fatty acids may cause the brain to age faster.

For the full article: Hindustan Times

CHARLOTTE BRONTË’S LOST SHORT STORY TO BE PUBLISHED

A long-lost short story written by Charlotte Brontë for a married man with whom she fell in love is to be published for the first time after being found in a Belgian museum a century after it was last heard of.

SCIENTISTS: CASSAVA WILL THRIVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE

Scientists say the long-neglected cassava root becomes even more productive in hotter temperatures and could be the best bet for African farmers threatened by climate change.

FREE HIV TREATMENT ON NHS FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS

Foreign nationals are to be offered free treatment for HIV on the NHS under plans backed by the government.