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A recent flurry of executive orders and surprise actions by the Trump administration have roiled WHO, the CDC and the international public health community.

Alibaba claims that its Qwen2.5-Max artificial intelligence model outperformed its rivals at OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek.

A miniature gold lock dated to the third to fourth centuries was found by a metal detectorist in Germany.

Astronauts on board China’s “heavenly palace” space station have demonstrated a new way of making rocket fuel products and breathable oxygen by mimicking a chemical reaction in plants. The technology could be utilized in China’s planned moon base.

Ocean warming has more than quadrupled in recent decades and is likely to accelerate even faster if humanity fails to address climate change, scientists find.

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu.

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Casarabe people grew the nutritious crop year-round on savannas thanks to networks of drainage canals and ponds.

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

Death by heartbreak doesn’t just happen in stories. In real life, severe stress can cause the sometimes-fatal takotsubo syndrome.