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The Enhanced Games Has A Date, A Host City and a Drug-Fuelled World Record

The Enhanced Games Has A Date, A Host City and a Drug-Fuelled World Record

The Enhanced Games, where athletes are allowed to take performance-enhancing drugs, will host its first event in May. One "enhance...

Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate

Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate

A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump adm...

New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station

New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well adapte...

A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time

A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time

Scientists were able to create a bespoke treatment for KJ Muldoon's rare genetic disorder within six months. It could be a bluepri...

Blocked From Selling Off-Brand Ozempic, Telehealth Startups Embrace a Less Effective Drug

As the FDA halts the sale of Ozempic and Zepbound copycats, online clinics have begun offering liraglutide, an older GLP-1 medicat...

SpaceX Tests Starship Fixes After Back-to-Back Failures

SpaceX Tests Starship Fixes After Back-to-Back Failures

The next Starship launch may come as soon as next week. A recent test of its Raptor engines suggest SpaceX has resolved the issues...

The EPA Is Giving Some Forever Chemicals a Pass

The EPA Is Giving Some Forever Chemicals a Pass

Last year, the Biden administration set limits on PFAS in drinking water systems. Donald Trump's EPA is planning to dramatically s...

Patients Are Left With Few Options as GLP-1 Copycats Disappear

Patients Are Left With Few Options as GLP-1 Copycats Disappear

With the active ingredients in drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound no longer in shortage, access to medicine for millions who had come...

The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals

The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals

Reorganizations at the EPA may get rid of the agency’s fundamental program for research around the risks of toxic chemicals.

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple...

Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels

Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels

The agency maintains the global backbone of measurements of CO2 and other gases, but these are at risk of being curtailed if the f...

Diabetes Is Rising in Africa. Could It Lead to New Breakthroughs?

Diabetes Is Rising in Africa. Could It Lead to New Breakthroughs?

Growing rates of type 2 diabetes across the African content offer scientists hope of creating new, more inclusive treatments.

Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Is Tearing the MAHA Movement Apart

Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Is Tearing the MAHA Movement Apart

Casey Means isn't currently licensed as a doctor. But that’s not why anti-vaxxers and conspiracists think she’s unsuited to be sur...

US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants

US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants

CBP's acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency's custody, i...

As the US Cuts Scientific Talent, Europe Launches an Initiative to Attract It

As the US Cuts Scientific Talent, Europe Launches an Initiative to Attract It

The Choose Europe for Science program will invest more than half a billion dollars between 2025 and 2027 to recruit researchers an...

This US Company Just Successfully Tested a Reusable Hypersonic Rocket Plane

This US Company Just Successfully Tested a Reusable Hypersonic Rocket Plane

Stratolaunch completed two flights of its autonomous Talon-A2 rocket plane earlier this year, as the US aims to gain ground in its...

FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster Areas

FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster Areas

As it shifts responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities, FEMA workers will stop knocking on doors to provide aid to ...

How Mexico’s Fishing Refuges Are Fighting Back Against Poaching

How Mexico’s Fishing Refuges Are Fighting Back Against Poaching

Following inaction from the government, fishing communities and conservationists are taking it upon themselves to set up and monit...

Japan Loses Top Creditor Status for First Time in 34 Years

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Japan Loses Top Creditor Status for First Time in 34 Years

ECB Rate-Cutting Cycle Is Probably Almost Finished, Muller S...

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ECB Rate-Cutting Cycle Is Probably Almost Finished, Muller Says

Swiss Inflation Turns Negative for First Time in Four Years

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Swiss Inflation Turns Negative for First Time in Four Years

ECB’s Stournaras Sees June Rate Cut and Then Pause: Kathimer...

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ECB’s Stournaras Sees June Rate Cut and Then Pause: Kathimerini

China forms new global mediation group with dozens of countr...

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China forms new global mediation group with dozens of countries

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