France Seeks Strategy as Nuclear Waste Site Risks Saturation Point
At a nuclear waste site in Normandy, robotic arms guided by technicians behind a protective shield maneuver a pipe that will turn ...
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Australia to Legalize MDMA And Magic Mushrooms for Medical Use
Australia’s drugs watchdog on Friday announced that psychedelic substances MDMA and psilocybin — more commonly known ...
Eye Drops Recalled After US Drug-Resistant Bacteria Outbreak
U.S. health officials said Thursday a company is recalling its over-the-counter eye drops that have been linked to an outbreak of ...
Punxsutawney Phil Sees Shadow, Forecasts Six More Weeks of Winter
A legendary U.S. groundhog, from the (east central U.S.) town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, was pulled from his burrow early ...
Canadian Province Decriminalizes Small Amount of Hard Drugs
Personal possession of a small amount of hard drugs is now legal in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The controversial ...
How to Make a Mummy: Ancient Egyptian Workshop Has New Clues
For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians mummified their dead in the search for eternal life. Now, researchers have used ...
Needle in a Haystack Found: Australia Recovers Missing Radioactive Capsule
Australian authorities on Wednesday found a radioactive capsule smaller than a coin that was lost in the vast Outback after ...
Bring Back Extinct Species? Ambitious Plan Draws Investors, Critics
The dodo bird isn’t coming back anytime soon. Nor is the woolly mammoth. But a company working on technologies to bring ...
AI: World Likely to Hit Key Warming Threshold in 10-12 Years
The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade and keep heating to break ...
Global Guinea Worm Infections Continue Downward Trend
In the 1980s, more than 3 million people worldwide were infected with Guinea worm. At the end of 2022, the number of reported ...
Global Guinea Worm Infections Continue Downward Trend
As the World Health Organization celebrates World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day January 30, the Atlanta-based Carter Center is ...
WHO: Scope, Scale of Health Emergencies Growing
World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns global health challenges are growing and threatening ...
Red Cross: World is Dangerously Unprepared for Next Pandemic
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warns the world is dangerously unprepared for the next ...
Asteroid’s Sudden Flyby Shows Blind Spot in Planetary Threat Detection
The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth on Thursday, albeit one that ...
WHO: Over 1.6B People Infected with Neglected Tropical Diseases
Ahead of World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day Monday, the World Health Organization is calling for action to tackle these ...
New Zealand Roiled by Flash Floods, Landslides for Third Day
Heavy rainfall hit New Zealand’s north island again on Sunday, causing landslides, flash floods and knocking out roads, ...
Children Denied Same Access to Treatment for HIV/AIDS as Adults
The U.N.’s main AIDS program says thousands of children are dying from HIV/AIDS because, unlike adults, they do not receive ...
India’s First Nasal COVID-19 Vaccine Launched
This week India launched its first nasal COVID-19 vaccine, four months after it received approval for its restricted emergency ...
Green Comet Zooming Our Way; Last Visited 50,000 Years Ago
A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years. The dirty snowball last visited during Neanderthal times, according to ...
US FDA Proposes Eased Restrictions on Blood Donations from Gay, Bisexual Men
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed revisions to its guidelines to make it easier for gay and bisexual men ...
CDC Says Omicron Subvariant XBB.1.5 Accounts for 61.3% of US COVID Cases
The Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 has likely become the dominant variant in the United States, accounting for 61.3% of COVID cases ...
US Moves to Protect Minnesota Wilderness from Planned Mine
The Biden administration moved Thursday to protect northeastern Minnesota’s pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ...
Small Asteroid to Pass Near Earth Thursday
The U.S. space agency NASA says a small asteroid will pass very close to Earth Thursday, just 3,600 kilometers from our ...