Science and Health

NASA telescope spots super Jupiter that takes more than a century to go around its star

Young Ethiopian Space Program graduates aim for the skies

Progress in ending world hunger set back by global crises

Polio at high risk of spreading within Gaza Strip

LogOn: Device may help disabled vocal cords speak again

UN: Nearly 40 million had HIV in 2023, many died due to lack of treatment

India’s battery storage industry grows

How to handle deli meats as CDC investigates listeria outbreak in the US

Back to the Moon – Part 2

Russia, China taking space into dangerous territory, US says

Malawi declares end of country’s deadliest cholera outbreak

Scientists confirm cave on the moon that could be used to shelter future explorers

Second malaria vaccine launched in Ivory Coast marks new milestone

World’s rarest whale may have washed up on New Zealand beach

UN alarmed as childhood immunization levels stall

Kenyan government app gives girls info on a taboo topic: menstruation

Stegosaurus nicknamed Apex will be auctioned in New York

DR Congo detects at least 25 mpox cases in Goma

SpaceX rocket accident leaves Starlink satellites in wrong orbit

America’s pioneering sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer dies at 96

WHO: Limited surveillance hampers bird flu risk assessment

Las Vegas hits record of fifth consecutive day of 46.1 Celsius or greater

Astronauts confident Boeing space capsule can safely return to Earth

Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket successfully launches for first time

Former US Senator Inhofe, defense hawk and climate change skeptic, dies at 89

Purdue Pharma secures litigation freeze after US Supreme Court ruling

Nigeria’s bushmeat consumption comes under scrutiny

American mountaineer found mummified in Peru 22 years after vanishing

After $1B gift, most Johns Hopkins medical students won’t pay tuition

Park benches and grandmothers: Zimbabwe’s novel mental health therapy spreads overseas

Torrid heat bakes millions of people in large swaths of US, setting records and fanning wildfires

Oldest inhabited termite mounds have been active for 34,000 years

Fossils show huge salamanderlike predator with sharp fangs existed before the dinosaurs

US records may shatter as excessive heat threatens 130 million

‘Ready to come out?’ Scientists emerge after year ‘on Mars’

Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?

Anti-doping agency sharpens its tools for Paris Olympics

Crocodiles cannot outnumber people in Australian territory where girl was killed, leader says

Hurricane Beryl destroys homes, uproots trees in Grenada

Dangers grow for media covering environment beat

India is likely undercounting heat deaths, affecting its response to increasingly harsh heat waves

NYC’s interactive exhibition sends visitors on outer space journey

USAID helps parts of Ukraine become energy independent 

Japan’s top court rules forced sterilization law unconstitutional

Biden announces measures to protect against extreme weather

FDA approves 2nd Alzheimer’s drug that modestly slows disease

Study: Climate-induced disasters significantly weaken Pakistan’s societal resilience

US will pay Moderna to develop pandemic flu vaccine

LogOn: New test will be game changer in tuberculosis diagnostics

Amazon sidesteps carbon offset standard Bezos helped fund

Street medicine teams search for homeless people to deliver lifesaving IV hydration in extreme heat

Space Pioneer says part of rocket crashed in central China

Hurricane Beryl strengthens into Category 4 storm as it nears southeast Caribbean

Genome study deepens mystery of what doomed Earth’s last mammoths

List of threatened species grows by 1,000

Antelope poaching on rise in South Sudan

Beryl strengthens into a hurricane, forecast to become major storm

Palestinians face summer heat surrounded by sewage, garbage

More African nations focus on HPV vaccination against cervical cancer

NASA astronauts to stay aboard ISS longer, troubleshooting Boeing capsule