Pioneering IVF technique to reduce the risk of children inheriting mitochondrial diseases is being marketed as a fertility procedure for older women, despite little evidence it works.
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Click to expand Image A police vehicle on the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia, August 14, 2026. © 2026 Alfonso Nqunjana/AP Photo Zambian police and military forcibly disappeared, arbitrarily detained, bea…
A surprising new study suggests that eating peanuts every day could help support brain health and memory in older adults. Researchers found that consuming about two servings of unsalted, skin-roasted …
Click to expand Image The Adelaide Women’s Prison, South Australia, 2026. © 2026 Dean Faulkner/ABC News Prison authorities in the Australian state of South Australia are harming people with disabiliti…
A UCLA study found that long-term exposure to a common pesticide was linked to more than 2.5 times the risk of Parkinson's disease. Scientists also uncovered how the chemical damages brain cells and i…
A UCLA study found that long-term exposure to a common pesticide was linked to more than 2.5 times the risk of Parkinson's disease. Scientists also uncovered how the chemical damages brain cells and i…
In Mexico’s armed forces, an order from a superior is meant to be obeyed without question. For many women in uniform, investigative journalist Zorayda Gallegos found, that can include an order to step…
Scientists have built a groundbreaking molecular motor that spins in either direction using electricity, inspired by a machine invented more than 2,000 years ago. Even more remarkably, its rotation ca…
A massive study of nearly 486,000 adults found that regularly drinking tea was associated with an 11% lower risk of heart and blood vessel diseases. The lowest risk was linked to drinking roughly six …
Scientists at the University of Virginia have developed a promising new strategy to fight glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most difficult-to-treat forms of brain cancer. Their experimental appro…
Scientists at the University of Virginia have developed a promising new strategy to fight glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most difficult-to-treat forms of brain cancer. Their experimental appro…
A 17- to 18-million-year-old ape fossil discovered in Egypt is challenging long-held beliefs about where the ancestors of humans and other modern apes first evolved. Scientists now suspect that North …
A mysterious particle overlooked for decades may hold the key to why matter survived the Big Bang, allowing stars, planets, and life to exist. Scientists believe this forgotten neutrino reshaped the e…
Scientists have discovered that trees can sense their own shape and straighten their trunks using specialized wood that acts like opposing muscles. This remarkable ability helps trees maintain their p…
Scientists have uncovered a hidden mechanism that allows high-cholesterol diets to undermine the body's natural cholesterol defenses, and blocking it dramatically lowered harmful LDL cholesterol in mi…
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have uncovered a crucial missing link between a common gut bacterium and colorectal cancer, solving a mystery that has puzzled researchers for nearly two decades. The bacte…
A remarkable 4,000-year-old defensive structure discovered in Morocco is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about ancient North African civilizations. The massive fortifications reveal unexpe…
Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism that allows certain metals to resist cracking at temperatures as low as -253°C (-424°F), when similar materials typically become dangerously brittle. …
The UN human rights chief on Saturday demanded an independent investigation into the death of a Yemeni colleague held by the Houthis for more than two years, whose family learned of his death only wee…
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is building factories and hospitals, rolling out smartphones and mobile banking, and passing new laws at an unprecedented rate. But its people are more…
Scientists have discovered a bizarre bacterial defense system that works almost completely backward from anything seen before. Unlike typical bacterial immune systems that keep a deadly toxin under co…
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have uncovered a surprising process that helps humans develop sharp vision before birth, challenging decades of assumptions about how the eye forms. Using miniat…
Scientists have recreated a primordial state of matter from the dawn of the universe by colliding oxygen nuclei at nearly the speed of light. The surprising results show that this exotic substance can…
A major international study found that a simple blood test could help predict Alzheimer’s-related cognitive decline years before symptoms appear, with the highest-risk individuals facing a 38% chance …
A major international study found that a simple blood test could help predict Alzheimer’s-related cognitive decline years before symptoms appear, with the highest-risk individuals facing a 38% chance …
Click to expand Image Human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari (right) and Hadi Ali Chattha, during a court hearing in Islamabad, Pakistan, December 5, 2025. © 2025 Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images (New Yo…
Political campaigns can do more than raise your blood pressure. Studies link election stress to irregular heartbeats and an increase in heart attacks.
Click to expand Image A member of the M23 looks on during an enrollment of civilians, police officers, and former members of the Congolese armed forces who have been recruited in Goma on February 23, …
Click to expand Image Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov of Russia during the award ceremony for the Nobel Peace prize on December 10, 2021, in Oslo, Norway. © 2021 Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty I…
A new series in The Lancet argues for the need to investigate a paradox of men’s health: why men experience worse health outcomes than women, even though they hold undeniable…
A promising new study suggests that more than half of younger adults with type 2 diabetes could achieve remission in just six months through a combination of a low-calorie diet and structured exercise…
More than 300,000 people displaced since early March remain internally displaced in Lebanon, where the humanitarian crisis is “far from over,” according to the UN’s aid coordination office (OCHA).
Israeli forces continue to push Palestinians into ever-smaller areas of the Gaza Strip while destroying civilian infrastructure and attacking displacement sites, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, war…
Scientists may have solved a 66-million-year-old mystery: how crocodiles survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. A sweeping analysis of fossils and ancient climates suggests that their pre…
Scientists have uncovered hidden aggressive cancer cells in children whose tumors were previously considered lower risk, revealing why some cases of rhabdomyosarcoma become unexpectedly deadly. The di…
Two astronauts completed a 7-hour, 11-minute spacewalk to install a new solar array on the International Space Station, bringing NASA one step closer to a major power upgrade. Once the final array is …
Click to expand Image Lawyer and junta critic Mountaga Tall, Mali, 2025. © Private Six months after their abductions, Mountaga Tall, an outspoken critic of Mali’s junta, and his son, Cheick Mamadou Ta…
Click to expand Image A woman in Australia. © 2008 Getty Images An incarcerated Indigenous woman was reportedly shackled during a hospital stay earlier this month to deliver her baby by caesarean sect…
Click to expand Image An advertisement featuring French soccer star Kylian Mbappé in Shanghai, China, June 30, 2026. © 2026 Chinatopix via AP Photo This week a Chinese sports forum unearthed an April …
A judge ruled that federal regulators exceeded their authority in narrowing the exceptions to Medicaid work requirements for people with medical issues.
Click to expand Image Children on their way to school in the West Bank, September 16, 2026. © 2026 John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images A UN Commission of Inquiry concluded on October 14 that Israeli aut…
More than three months have passed since plainclothes security officers arrested pro-democracy activist Clovis Kakule Mutsuva on July 18 in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.…
RFK Jr. is making his pitch ahead of a midterm election that could shape the fate of his MAHA movement.
Martin Kulldorff, the biostatistician who advocated against Covid lockdowns, insisted that the rise in measles cases is caused by a widely disputed claim about said lockdowns:
A study of nearly 13,000 adults found that people consuming the most artificial sweeteners experienced a 62% faster decline in memory and thinking skills, equivalent to approximately 1.6 additional ye…
Myanmar’s human rights situation is “catastrophic”, the UN independent expert on the country warned at a press briefing Thursday, as the war spirals with no end in sight.
A new atlas of colorectal tumors sheds light on why cancers in young people are more dangerous.
Click to expand Image US election workers open and inspect mail-in ballot envelopes during processing inside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC) on Election Day, November 5, 202…
Click to expand Image A police anti-riot unit in Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 30, 2024. © 2024 Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via AP Photo (New York) – The Sri Lankan government’s Prevention of Organised…
After years of steep increases, especially amid the pandemic, U.S. overdose deaths decreased 27% in 2024, and preliminary data from 2025 show another meaningful drop.
Data add to expectations that the drug will be one of Lilly’s greatest growth drivers.
Kennedy on the campaign trail for MAHA, and new rules loom for U.S. investments in Chinese biotech.
Brain-eating amoebas are hard to treat and nearly always fatal. But researchers have isolated a compound that could help stop the disease.
Israel’s “aggressive operation” in the West Bank city of Hebron raises serious concerns of ethnic cleansing, UN human rights chief Volker Türk warned on Monday, as the number of Palestinians forced fr…
Top human rights experts investigating Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine said on Monday that the Russian authorities had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by attacking civilians a…
The UN said on Friday it was “extremely alarmed” by intensifying violence in the occupied West Bank, as Israel moved to seal off the territory following a deadly attack on its soldiers in Hebron.
Long-range Russian attacks across Ukraine are intensifying, including in Kyiv, causing at least 14 civilian deaths and 78 injuries overnight into Thursday, as UN agencies continue to provide aid.
Three years on from the reported resumption of large-scale forcible returns of nationals of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) from China, serious concerns persist about their fate, acco…
Representatives from across the international community are meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, to ensure that children everywhere can thrive in a world marred by war, climate chaos and other fundamenta…