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Coverage of scientific research and breakthroughs, environmental issues, and health.

Panatere metallurgical engineer Jean-Francois Dionne, wearing a thermal protective suit, shows an aluminium ingot

Dream come true

Swiss solar furnaces recycling watchmakers' waste metal

Wolf-dog hybrids are rarer than first thought. Even the theory about how dogs originated from a relative of the grey wolf (pictured here) has shifted over time

After genetic testing

First wolf-dog hybrid confirmed in Greece

The massive blackout, which occurred April 28, plunged Spain and Portugal into darkness

Unprecedented event

'First of its kind' power surge behind Iberia blackout: experts

JP Morgan Chase was among six major US banks that quite the UN-back banking alliance following Trump's election

Amid faltering commitment

UN-backed climate banking alliance ceases operations

“Text With Jesus,” a religion-based chatbot displayed on this iPhone, has thousands of paying subscribers and lets users ostensibly ask questions of Mary, Joseph, Jesus and nearly all 12 apostles

People of faith divided as AI enters religion

Frances Arnold won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and told AFP she was 'disruptive' and 'bored' in the classroom

Unconventional paths that led to Nobels

Heavy rain from the storm inundated the capital Hanoi this week, and floods and landslides damaged homes, infrastructure and farmland across the country

Typhoon Bualoi death toll in Vietnam tops 50

With artificial intelligence use growing rapidly, demand for data centres -- which eat up vast amounts of energy -- is ballooning

Future of data storage?

China trials 'energy-saving' underwater data centres

An artist's impression of the rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 sucking in matter from the disc that surrounds it

Floating through universe

Strange 'rogue' planet spotted guzzling matter like a star

Canadair CL-415 planes, the workhorse of international aerial efforts to fight blazes, are making a comeback, like the one seen here over a 2025 wildfire in Albania

1960s invention

Rising wildfires spur comeback for Canadian water bomber

Beluga whales leap from the water during a performance at the aquarium inside the Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in 2014

30 beluga whales

Canada blocks theme park from sending whales to China

Primatologist Jane Goodall, who has spent her life researching and fighting for the conservation of chimpanzees, pictured in Entebbe in 2018

Jane Goodall: crusader for chimpanzees and the planet

This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Imelda looming off the southeastern United States

Damaging waves and flooding

Hurricane Imelda bound for Bermuda as a Cat 2 storm

This former fracking site in northwest Lancashire run by energy firm Cuadrilla Resources to extract shale gas from deep underground rock was pictured in 2018, but has been shut down since a moratorium in 2019 and is to be restored to farmland

Environmental impact

UK's Labour govt plans permanent fracking ban

'Terminator' star Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) joked that Pope Leo XIV (L) was an 'action hero' despite his less muscular frame

No indifference or resignation

Schwarzenegger's 'action hero' pope says don't give up on climate change

Severe rains in Ukraine's Odesa opened a sink hole in a road in which a bus and car can be seen

Torrential downpours kill nine in Ukraine's Odesa

A picture of Saturn's moon Enceladus taken by the Cassini space probe in 2006

Life, but not as we know it

More ingredients for life discovered in ocean on Saturn moon

Like others in the Swiss Alps, the Rhone Glacier is melting as the climate warms

Concerns over accelerated melting

Swiss glaciers shrank by a quarter in past decade: study

Action hero-turned-environmental campaigner Schwarzenegger hails the Catholic Church's climate mission

Climate conference

Pope, Schwarzenegger to rally Catholics to 'terminate' climate change

People walk along a flooded street in Ibiza on September 30, 2025

Wettest day since 1952

Beaches shut on Spain's Ibiza as downpours spark floods

Ice floating on the surface of the sea in the western Antarctic peninsula in 2016

Antarctic sea ice hits its third-lowest winter peak on record

Could scientists creating human egg cells in the lab end infertility as we know it?

Human skin cells turned into fertilisable eggs for first time

A wolf at the Arcturos sanctuary in Nymfaio, Greece, in 2018

'Multiplying in wild'

Wolf attack in Greece prompts calls for hunting rights

Typhoon Bualoi ripped roofs from buildings and uprooted electrical poles along Vietnam's coast, killing at least 11 people

Ripped roofs from buildings

Typhoon Bualoi kills dozens in Vietnam and Philippines

Extreme weather is a growing challege for Europe, the report said

Unable to agree on proposals

Europe must step up efforts to protect environment: report

Zurich's residents have banned petrol-fuelled leaf blowers. But electric ones can still be used -- just between October and December

Loud and spreading dust

Zurich votes to ban petrol leaf blowers

The Etosha National Park is home to 114 species, including the endangered black rhino

One of Africa's largest game reserves

Namibia deploys 500 soldiers to fight Etosha fire

The Triangulum Galaxy and the Autumn Sky

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