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An aerial view of Thames Water's Beddington Sewage Treatment Works near Croydon, south London on Friday. Thames Water — and other British water companies privatized since 1989 — are under fire for allowing the discharge of large quantities of sewage into rivers and the sea.

WORLD / Science & Health

Mar 17, 2025

A stain on Britain: Sewage contaminates its waterways and seas

By Kate Holton and Dylan Martinez

The pollution affects the seafood and tourism industries, while delaying construction projects and hampering the economy.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 members Takuya Onishi, of Japan, and Kirill Peskov, of Russia, depart from the Operations & Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center for transport to Launch Complex 39-A ahead of their launch to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday.

WORLD / Science & Health

Mar 15, 2025

NASA launches ISS-bound SpaceX rocket with Japanese astronaut aboard

By Jessica Speed

Japan's Takuya Onishi is scheduled to command a fresh crew after it relieves a mission that includes two astronauts who have been aboard the station for nine months.

The findings suggest that heat waves and rising temperatures from climate change could be chemically modifying people’s DNA and speeding up their biological aging.

WORLD / Science & Health

Mar 12, 2025

Extreme heat linked to accelerated aging in older adults, study finds

By Mohana Ravindranath

The analysis found that those living in areas prone to extreme heat showed more accelerated aging at a molecular level compared those who live elsewhere.

An event marking World Obesity Day in Brussels on March 6, 2024. Without a serious change, researchers estimate that 3.8 billion adults will be overweight or obese in 15 years — or around 60% of the global adult population in 2050.

WORLD / Science & Health

Mar 4, 2025

60% of adults will be overweight or obese by 2050, study says

Data from 204 countries paints a grim picture of a major health challenge facing the world.

This still image taken from a Feb. 24 video released by Firefly Aerospace shows Firefly's Blue Ghost lander on its third lunar orbit, showing the far side of the moon.

WORLD / Science & Health

Mar 2, 2025

In first, private U.S. spaceship lands upright on moon

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 touched down shortly after 3:34 am U.S. Eastern Time on the moon's northeastern near side.

A scientific officer works in the research lab at the University of Cape Town's Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, in Cape Town, South Africa on Feb. 17.

WORLD / Science & Health

Feb 28, 2025

Services to millions of people collapse as USAID cuts contracts worldwide

By Jennifer Rigby, Nellie Peyton and Emma Farge

Among those to get termination notices were major U.N. health programs, which might have different sources of funding, and smaller groups that relied mostly on U.S. grants.

A panoramic view of Earth taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS)

WORLD / Science & Health

Feb 15, 2025

Was the emergence of intelligent life on Earth just a fluke? Some scientists think not.

By Will Dunham

Some scientists says that Homo sapiens may be the probable end result when a planet has a certain set of attributes that make it habitable.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The sun shines from behind a waving Philippine flag at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial.

Eighty years after the Battle of Manila, old foes forge new ties

By Anton L. Delgado

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