February 3, 2023 0 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 ...
February 3, 2023 0 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 ...
February 3, 2023 0 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 ...
February 2, 2023 0 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 ...
February 2, 2023 0 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 ...
February 1, 2023 0 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 ...
February 1, 2023 0 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 ...
January 31, 2023 0 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 ...
January 31, 2023 0 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 ...
January 30, 2023 0 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 ...
January 30, 2023 0 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 ...
January 30, 2023 0 WHO: Scope, Scale of Health Emergencies Growing World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns global health challenges are growing and threatening ...
January 30, 2023 0 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 ...
January 29, 2023 0 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 ...
January 29, 2023 0 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 ...
January 29, 2023 0 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, ...
January 28, 2023 0 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 ...
January 28, 2023 0 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 ...
January 28, 2023 0 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 ...
January 27, 2023 0 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 ...
January 27, 2023 0 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 ...
January 27, 2023 0 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 ...
January 26, 2023 0 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 ...