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Farmers face big drop in production from extreme weather during this year’s super El Niño event Banana producers in Latin America are calling for better pay to help cope with the impact of the climate crisis, as they face big drops in production resulting from
WASHINGTON — The Biotechnology Innovation Organization is joining the legal fight against the Trump administration’s pilot program aimed at aligning drug prices in Medicare with prices charged in peer countries.
The Indianapolis Star ran a two-page spread on my free High-Power Rocket Bootcamp in last Sunday's paper!
Dubai, UAE photographed from the ISS in 2025.
Credit: AJ Smadi The post This Photo of the ISS Next to Jupiter Was Two Years in the Making appeared first on Nautilus.
As Nepal’s mountains warm, mosquitoes are spreading dengue, once strictly a lowland disease, to higher-elevation, densely-populated areas.
Scientists working on new reports for the IPCC, the U.N.’s climate science panel, warn about a funding crunch and report timelines in an open letter.
The European Union will ask at COP31 that all countries, in particular the largest polluters, make every effort to contain the level of overshooting of the target of 1.5°C global warming, which is already considered inevitable.
A União Europeia vai pedir na COP31 que todos os países, em particular os maiores poluidores, façam todos os esforços para conter o nível de ultrapassagem da meta de 1,5ºC de aquecimento global, já considerada inevitável.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.CHICAGO — Lipoprotein(a), a genetic risk factor for cardiovascular disease carried by 1 in 5 people, is the target of novel therapies trying to cut down heart attacks, strokes, and deaths in those at risk.
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Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.An Estonian newspaper recently revealed that a British soldier disobeyed a direct order to remove the SIM card from his cellphone before being deployed to a part of Estonia, approximately 90 miles west of the Russian border.
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Activists fear Bangkok will give in to pressure from Beijing despite reports of torture and human rights abuses against the mostly muslim ethnic minority The deportation of two more Uyghurs to China from Thailand would put their lives in grave danger, activists have said, with
War, poverty and climate change are all affecting Sudanese, with increasing cases of child malnutrition.
At least 30 people have reportedly been killed in an attack on a market in Yemen's Taiz province, with Houthi rebels blaming Saudi airstrikes.
At least 30 people have reportedly been killed in an attack on a market in Yemen’s Taiz province, with Houthi rebels blaming Saudi airstrikes.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.In fact, the dramatic increase in biodiversity from the poles to the tropics—known as the latitudinal diversity gradient—is pervasive across branches of the tree of life, and fossil evidence suggests it has existed for millennia.
The designations freeze covered assets and generally bar US dealings with the firms.
Credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas NASA is looking for the explorers who will help write the next chapter of human spaceflight.
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Next spring, Apple will take the stage to unveil the second-generation iPhone Air to the world, after taking a bit more time to go back to the drawing board and incorporate a second camera into the design.
Egypt’s foreign minister Badr Abdelatty was in Tripoli on Saturday to reopen his country’s embassy.
Read the first story, about the Maui Wildfire Exposure Study, here.
A wildfire exposure study on Maui created a new blueprint for public health research and support after disasters—but funding was drying up.
Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan examine mounting evidence of rapid AI acceleration alongside guests Brian Zhou of Thoughtful, Mike San Miguel of Luxor Technology, and Bryan Bischof of Theory Ventures. The discussions unpack how frontier agents fared when trading real money on midterm election forecasts, the intense physical constraints and compliance rules shaping secondary GPU transactions, and how venture firms use thousands of agent runs to identify alpha. Anchored by METR's assessment and Anthropic's amended regulatory filings, the hosts explore whether frontier labs are on the brink o
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