Swiss Parachutist Becomes First to Jump From Solar Powered Plane
A parachutist completed the world’s first jump from a solar-powered aircraft Tuesday, leaping from a height of 1,520 meters ...
Health
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WHO Issues Mask-Wearing Guidelines for Children
As millions of children head back to school, the World Health Organization has issued its recommendation on whether they need to ...
Kenya Sees Spike in Sexual Abuse Cases During Pandemic
Kenyan authorities and aid agencies say rape and sexual abuse cases against girls have increased ...
As Africa Celebrates Polio-Free Status, Nigeria Says Battle Not Over
A region in Africa that includes 43 nations has been certified free of the wild polio virus (Aug. 24) after Nigeria, the last ...
Researchers Improve ‘Anti-Solar’ Energy Production
A new study suggests researchers have developed a method to significantly improve “anti-solar” panels – a new ...
COVAX Program is Evaluating 9 Potential Coronavirus Vaccines, WHO Says
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday nine vaccines are being evaluated by its cooperative COVAX facility which ...
Burkina Faso is Facing a Hunger Catastrophe
The World Food Program reports Burkina Faso is facing an acute shortage of food, with more than 3.2 million people going hungry ...
Online Campaign Saves ‘Space Camp’
The U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama – home to “Space Camp” – faced permanent closure ...
Ebola Spreading Rapidly in DR Congo’s Equateur Province
The World Health Organization is concerned by the rapid increase and spread of the deadly Ebola virus in remote, densely forested ...
WHO Head Hopes Pandemic Will End Within Two Years
The head of the World Health Organization says he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will end in less than two years – less ...
In a First, 2 Hurricanes Could Hit Gulf of Mexico Next Week
The U.S. National Weather Service is predicting that two storm systems in and around the Caribbean Sea will strengthen and could ...
US Universities Roll Out COVID Spit Tests
A recently approved rapid saliva test for COVID-19 is already being used on college campuses across the United States. Also ...
Peru to Host Clinical Trials for Coronavirus Vaccine
China’s Sinopharm Laboratory will begin human clinical trials for a possible vaccine against COVID-19 in Peru on ...
Florida Keys to Release Modified Mosquitoes to Fight Illness
Sometime next year, genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in the Florida Keys in an effort to combat persistent ...
Earth Gets Glancing Blow From Solar Flare
U.S. space weather forecasters say the Earth on Thursday received a glancing blow from a “coronal mass ejection” ...
SpaceX Sends More Communications Satellites Into Space
The man-made mega constellation orbiting Earth grew again this week after another history-making commercial ...
WHO Begins Discussions on Russia Vaccine
The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Europe office said it has begun discussions with Russia regarding the ...
Med Students Lose Empathy After Second Year, Study Finds
While medical school students gain key healing skills as their education progresses, one important quality seems to wane: ...
Fires Ravage Brazil’s Pantanal, World’s Largest Wetland
Firefighters in Brazil say strong winds and hot dry weather are making it difficult to battle thousands of blazes burning in the ...
Mauritius Arrests Captain of Japanese Ship Responsible for Oil Spill
Police on Mauritius have arrested the captain of the Japanese carrier that ran aground off the coast last month, spilling 1,000 ...
10 More Eggs Harvested from Last 2 Female Northern White Rhinos
Scientists in Kenya have harvested 10 eggs from the last two remaining northern white rhinos in the race to keep the species from ...
WHO Chief Warns of ‘Vaccine Nationalism’
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general Tuesday issued another warning against “vaccine ...
World Temperature Record Set in California’s Death Valley
One of the hottest air temperatures recorded anywhere on the planet in at least a century, and possibly ever, was reached on ...
US Company to Begin Second Phase of Human Trials in South Africa for COVID-19 Vaccine
A U.S. based vaccine development company is set to begin the second phase of human testing for its COVID-19 vaccine in ...