Can we prevent zoonotic diseases from spreading to humans and protect our cities from major future outbreaks?Seventy-five percent of infectious diseases in humans come from…
Forty-four countries have been declared malaria free, but there were still 249 million cases in 2022.Egypt has been certified as malaria free, with the World…
Atlantic salmon populations in England and Wales have plummeted to unprecedented lows, according to the Atlantic Salmon Stock Assessment for 2024, a report published this…
The technology helped recover $1.3bn in tax fraud in the 2024 fiscal year, says the Treasury.The United States Treasury Department is turning more to artificial…
The air-taxi market is predicted to grow exponentially by the end of the decade, but experts have warned that its future depends on a well-planned…
NewsFeedAfter SpaceX’s world-first success in catching a rocket booster as it returned to earth, we heard from aerospace Engineer Scott Walter about why it was…
Rwanda is fighting its first outbreak of the “highly virulent” Marburg virus which was first reported in late September. As of Thursday, 11 people were reported…
The ‘real time PCR test’ will enable the detection of the virus by swabbing human skin lesions.The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the use…
It’s been almost 25 years since Bruce Willis, playing the fictional character Harry Stamper in the blockbuster movie, Armageddon, saved Earth from an asteroid careering…
Stargazers in Chile and Argentina turned their eyes to the horizon on Wednesday to catch the final solar eclipse of 2024: a “ring of fire”…
EXPLAINERHurricane Helene has been downgraded to a category one storm but authorities warn rainfall and winds are still a danger.Hurricane Helene struck Florida’s Big Bend…
For a quarter-century, researchers and the general public have sought to understand why people in so-called “Blue Zones” live to 100 at far greater rates…
From late September until late November this year, a “mini-moon”, called 2024 PT5 by the astrologers who spotted it approaching will be orbiting the planet.…
In the small village of Ogba-Ojibo in central Nigeria, sitting at the confluence of two of the nation’s largest rivers – the Niger and Benue…
A pioneering duo of astronauts has made history by becoming the first private civilians to perform a spacewalk, hailed by NASA as “a giant leap…
After months of delay due to logistics, the first sets of mpox vaccines have finally begun arriving in Democratic Republic of the Congo, donated by…
It’s a mission like no other. On Thursday morning, the SpaceX-operated Polaris Dawn will attempt something that’s never been done before: private civilians embarking on…
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will remain at the International Space Station until February 2025.Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has landed in New Mexico, wrapping up…
Judges vote to uphold the ban, which comes amid a standoff over misinformation and hate speech allegations.All five judges on a Supreme Court panel have…
Traces of the anti-depressant, fluoxetine – often better known by its commercial name, Prozac – have been detected by an Australian-Italian joint study of lakes…