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

Two of the five Brazilian merganser chicks now thriving at the Prague Zoo

Five chicks hatched

Prague zoo breeds near-extinct Brazilian mergansers

A nitrogen leak from a Paris cryochamber is thought to have killed a person

Employee dead, client critical after Paris cryotherapy session goes wrong

The Netherlands is world famous for its tulips

Chemical exposure

Dutch flower industry grasps thorny pesticide issue

Switching to an electric Vespa is attracting customers who want a fashionable ride without contributing to noise and air pollution

Ambitious transition targets

Vespa love affair: Indonesians turn vintage scooters electric

Britain's Supreme Court is situated on Parliament Square in London

Divisive debate

UK's top court to rule on how to define a 'woman'

The new accord is aimed at improving pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, following the frailties exposed by Covid-19

Avoiding repeat mistakes

WHO countries reach landmark agreement on tackling future pandemics

The pandemic agreement envisages more equitable access to vaccines

Strategy analysis

Pandemic agreement: key points

Trump ramps up conflict against defiant Harvard

A wheelchair-user is helped across a road in dangerously low visibility in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday.

Iraq sandstorm closes airports, puts 3,700 people in hospital

Students from MIT, Harvard University and other schools rally in April 2024 against Israel's military campaign in Gaza

Combating anti-Semitism

Harvard sees $2.2 billion in funding frozen after defying Trump

Shye Klein-Weinstein, a 28-year-old survivor of the October 7, 2023 attacks by Palestinian militants, poses for a picture next to a memorial to the Nova music festival victims

7 October attacks

From deadly rave to recovery: Israeli study examines MDMA's effect on trauma

Francisco Ruiz Palomo, president of La Loperana olive oil producers' cooperative, poses in his olive grove in Lopera on March 24, 2025

Solar park boom threatens Spain's centuries-old olive trees

Simons says the idea for the service came to him when he was waiting for a cross-Channel ferry

Low-carbon alternative

'Slow travel' start-up launches cross-Channel crossings by sail

Strong winds swept Beijing and northern China, causing authorities to warn people in affected areas not to go outside unless necessary

'Cold vortex system'

Warnings issued, flights cancelled as strong winds whip north China

The presidential motorcade stands outside of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, after US President Donald Trump entered the building for his annual physical, in Bethesda, Maryland

Never felt better

Trump, 78, says feels in 'very good shape' after annual checkup

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr announced a large study into the cause of the autism 'epidemic'

Valid concerns or debunked conspiracy?

RFK Jr's autism 'epidemic' study raises anti-vaxx fears

Towana Looney (L) is seen in NYU Langone Hospital in New York on December 11, 2024, just weeks after receiving a transplanted pig kidney

Pig kidney removed from US transplant patient, but she set record

NOAA carries out functions ranging from climate research to hurricane tracking

Skeptical approach

Trump wants to halt climate research by key agency: reports

Shipping accounts for nearly three percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, the IMO says

International Maritime Organization

UN shipping body approves global carbon pricing system

An employee trains an orca in the Marineland theme park in the southeastern city of Antibes in 2016

Spain marine park defends facilities after France orca transfer blocked

Briceida Torres washes food with water she stores in containers a few days before the end of the first year of water rationing at her house in Bogota in April 2025

Much-desired reprieve

Bogota ends one year of climate-induced water rationing

Participants in the talks are trying to improve their response to the next pandemic

Remain in doubt

WHO pandemic agreement talks face deadline crunch

Strange blasts from this galaxy's heart suggests a black hole is emerging from slumber

Scientists puzzled

Massive black hole 'waking up' in Virgo constellation

Last year, heatwaves forced millions of children in the Philippines out of school

Early holiday, more fans: Philippines schools adapt to climate change

A Texas startup called Colossal Biosciences made a big splash this week by releasing footage of canines they say are dire wolves, a species that vanished more than 12,000 years ago

Like cute white puppies

US firm says it brought back extinct dire wolves

The Marineland park in the French Riviera city of Antibes closed because of falling attendance and an animal welfare law

Orcas, dolphins stuck in closed French marine park

Some activists are sceptical about the new census

Government announces

Census shows high number of brown bears in Romania

US President Donald Trump signs an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of former president John F. Kennedy, former attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr

RFK, MLK assassination files to be released in 'next few days'

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