Science and Health

Summer Solstice Has Arrived

US OKs Chicken Made From Cultivated Cells, Nation’s First ‘Lab-Grown’ Meat

Thousands of Whales Begin Their Epic Journey Up Australia’s Humpback Highway

Sickle Cell Advocates in Nigeria Urge Authorities to Take Firm Stand on Interventions

UN Members Adopt First-Ever Treaty to Protect Marine Life in High Seas

Venezuelans Lack Access to HPV Vaccine

Microsoft Says Early June Disruptions to Outlook, Cloud Platform, Were Cyberattacks

Secret Washington Garden Has Vital Government Mission

EU: Powerful Illegal Drugs Inundating Europe, Sending Corruption and Violence Soaring

Researchers Studying Cancer in Wildlife Grapple With Why Some Get the Disease While Others Don’t

US Regulator Panel Weighs Makeup of Next COVID Vaccine

NASA Finds Key Building Block for Life in a Saturn Moon

Women Want Fistula Treatment, End to Stigma in Tanzania

What Peanuts Dancing in Beer Teaches Us About the Earth’s Crust

Cameroon Officials Campaign Against Taboos to Encourage People to Donate Blood

Are Abortion Laws in Idaho Hurting Maternal Health Care?

Lab-Grown Meat Industry Makes Progress but Faces Supply, Public Acceptance Hurdles

UK Hobbyist Stuns Math World With ‘Amazing’ New Shapes

Dutch Minister Discusses Health Care in an Age of Longevity

El Nino Climate Pattern Now Underway, NOAA Reports

U.S. East Coast Blanketed in Smoke From Canadian Wildfires

Newer Transplant Method Could Boost Number of Donor Hearts By 30%

Hawaii’s Kilauea Erupting Again After 3-Month Pause

Explainer: Will COP28 Deliver a New Fund for Climate Loss and Damage?

New Yorkers Celebrate Law That Protects People Based on Weight or Height

China’s Latest COVID Wave May Hit 65 Million a Week With Mild Symptoms

‘Ray of Hope’: New Advances in Fighting Range of Cancers

New Global Climate Assessment Aims to Gauge Progress

Pill Halves Risk of Death in Type of Lung Cancer

Tour de France Anti-COVID Protocol to Keep Riders in Hotels

Death in the Amazon: Dangers of Environmental Reporting 

Honeybee Health Blooming at Federal Facilities Across US

WHO: Tanzania Declares End of Deadly Marburg Virus Outbreak

US Proposal for Remote Pacific Marine Sanctuary Draws Mixed Response

Sweden Approaches ‘Smoke-Free’ Status as Daily Use of Cigarettes Dwindles

Private Astronaut Crew, Including First Arab Woman in Orbit, Returns from Space Station

Argentinian Meteorologist Celeste Saulo to Lead UN Weather Agency

South Africa Searching for Source of Deadly Cholera Outbreak

Namibia Signs $10 Billion Green Energy Deal With Germany’s Hyphen

US Regulator Approves Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine for Adults 60 and Older

In Canada, Each Cigar and Cigarette to Bear Cancer Warning

Earth Is ‘Really Quite Sick Now’ and in Danger Zone in Nearly all Ecological Ways, Study Says

Operation to Empty Decaying Oil Tanker Set to Begin in Yemen, UN Says

Cholera Catastrophe Looming at Kenya Refugee Camp, Aid Group Warns

China’s Shenzhou-16 Mission Takes Off Bound for Space Station

IAEA Team in Japan for Final Review Before Planned Discharge of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water

UAE Unveils Groundbreaking Mission to Asteroid Belt

China Says Will Land Astronauts on Moon Before 2030, Expand Space Station

Zimbabwe Vaccination Targets Cholera Outbreak

Mpox Is Down, But US Cities Could Be at Risk for Summertime Outbreaks

UK Health Minister Says Will Not Negotiate on Pay With Nurses’ Union

New International Push Underway to End Plastic Pollution

Poachers Pluck South Africa’s ‘Succulent’ Plants for Chinese Market

Stephen Hawking’s Last Collaborator on Physicist’s Final Theory

France Confirms Bird Flu Vaccination After Favorable Tests

Farmer-Turned-Policeman Serves as Mexico’s Eyes, Ears at Popocatepetl Volcano

US Revokes License of Drug Distributor Over Opioid Crisis Failures

Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Company Says It Has Approval to Begin Human Trials

Investment in Solar Will Eclipse Oil in 2023, IEA Finds

US Supreme Court Limits Federal Government’s Ability to Police Pollution Into Wetlands