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

Homes inubdated by floodwaters in the town of Windorah in central-west Queensland, Australia

Area the size of France

'Heartbreaking' floods swamp Australia's cattle country

Volkswagen in 2015 admitted installing test-cheating emissions devices

Historic emissions fraud

French prosecutors demand Volkswagen face fresh Dieselgate trial

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has asked for gender-neutral physical fitness standards to be drawn up for frontline troops

Based on 'operational demands'

Pentagon chief orders gender-neutral fitness standards for combat troops

Hundreds of patients, including babies, the elderly and Buddhist monks, lie on gurneys in a hospital car park in the sweltering heat of Mandalay

Amid makeshift shelters

Fear of aftershocks in Myanmar forces patients into hospital car park

This picture courtesy of Fram2/SpaceX shows from left to right, mission specialist and medical officer Eric Philips, mission commander Chun Wang, pilot Rabea Rogge and vehicle commander Jannicke Mikkelsen

Pioneering orbital journey

SpaceX launches private astronauts on first crewed polar orbit

American astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore address a press conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas

Vowing to rectify mistakes

Safely back on Earth, once-stranded US astronauts ready to fly again

CERN believes the Future Circular Collider to be essential to maintaining Europe's leadership in physics

$17-billion project

No technical obstacles to new giant particle collider in Europe: CERN

The Cerredo coal mine was hit by Spain's deadliest mining accident in decades

Deadliest accident in decades

Spain coal mine blast kills five

Crowds flock to Tokyo's top locations to take photos and hold picnics under the dark cherry tree branches bursting with pink and white flowers

Life's 'fleeting impermanence'

Tourists and locals enjoy 'ephemeral' Tokyo cherry blossoms

France will host the third United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice in June

Against attacks by 'major powers'

Macron vows to defend science as host of UN oceans summit

Scientists brain-computer interfaces could give back a voice to people who have lost the ability to communicate

Using AI for good

Brain implant turns thoughts into speech in near real-time

Thai authorities are investigating what led to the collapse of a construction site followinga massive earthquake

Dozens remain missing

Thai authorities probe collapse at quake-hit construction site

Naruemol Thonglek (C) is praying her boyfriend will emerge from the rubble where a Bangkok skyscraper collapsed in the wake of a devastating earthquake in Myanmar

'Devastated': Relatives await news from Bangkok building collapse

A picture taken in October 2020 shows a tank containing liquid hydrogen at Kobe Port Island plant

Japan-Australia flagship hydrogen project stumbles

The Jackson Magnolia is seen next to the South Portico of the White House in January 2018

There since 1829

Storied but sickly, historic W.House magnolia to come down

The Spectrum rocket, developed by German start-up Isar Aerospace, launched from Norway's Andoya Spaceport in the Arctic

Seconds after blast-off

European orbital rocket crashes after launch

Myanmar's military chief Min Aung Hlaing rules a country battered by four years of civil war

Four years of civil war

Myanmar quake: a nation unprepared for disaster

More than a dozen fires have been fanned by high winds and dry conditions, killing 30 people, the worst of its kind recorded in South Korea

With cigarette lighter

South Korean man cleaning gravesite suspected of starting wildfires: police

German technology company Dryad is creating AI-powered drones to track down and extinguish wildfires

AI-powered drones track down fires in German forests

Morocco has built a diversion dam on one of its biggest rivers to redirect its flow as part of a $728 million project to avert a water crisis

Morocco 'water highway' averts crisis in big cities but doubts over sustainability

Former Ethiopian health and foreign minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has led the WHO since 2017

Reach and workforce affected

WHO must cut budget by fifth after US pullout: email

More than 90 people are feared to be trapped in Mandalay's Sky Villa Condominium development

Exhausted and overwhelmed

'We need aid': rescuers in quake-hit Myanmar city plead for help

The partial eclipse at peak time in Wincrange.

Celestial spectacle

Partial solar eclipse dims skies over Luxembourg

The wildfires ripped through worst-hit North Geyongsang province this week

South Korea firefighters deploy helicopters as wildfires reignite

Powerful quake hits Myanmar

Killed over 1,000

Myanmar quake: what we know

A partial solar eclipse in 2022 seen from Kuwait City

Visible in Luxembourg

Partial solar eclipse to cross swathe of Northern Hemisphere

A man arranges rolls of olive pomace at the grounds of start-up Bioheat in the town of Sanhaja near Tunis

Innovation at its finest

Tunisian startup turns olive waste into clean energy

Federal funding cuts

'Chilling effect': Researchers, colleges fear future under Trump

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