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Men painted like skeletons pose in Lagos to warn on the deadly disease prior to the World Malaria Day on April 25, 2015. The sudden dismantling of USAID, the country's main foreign development arm, is unraveling health care systems across Africa.
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USAID cuts rip through African health care systems
The sudden dismantling of USAID is unraveling health care systems across Africa that were built from a complicated web of national health ministries, companies and nonprofits.
WORLD / Science & Health
Accord reached 'in principle' over tackling future pandemics
Delegates will meet on Tuesday to put the finishing touches to a landmark text on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.
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Brain drain? Trump cutbacks force scientists to seek jobs in Europe
The threat posed by Donald Trump to academics' livelihoods at top U.S. universities has given Europe's political leaders hope they could reap an intellectual windfall.
A genetically modified wolf juvenile, one of three successfully bred by reconstructing a genome from the ancient DNA of fossils from dire wolves that had been extinct for over 12,500 years by Colossal Biosciences, billed as "the world’s only de-extinction company," is seen at age five months after his Oct. 1, 2024 birth, at a secure site in the northern United States.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 9, 2025
U.S. company resurrects the extinct dire wolf, or some version of it
By Will Dunham
Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences has announced the birth of three genetically engineered wolf pups — all with striking white fur — created with the help of ancient DNA.
U.S. molecular biologist David Liu in 2017. A revolution is underway in gene editing, and at its forefront is Liu, whose pioneering work is rewriting the building blocks of life with unprecedented precision.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 7, 2025
The scientist rewriting DNA, and the future of medicine
By Issam AHMED
American molecular biologist David Liu foresees his work to also contribute to areas such as developing more nutritious or disease-resistant crops.
The inner monologue has proven extremely difficult to study because it relies on people being able to describe how they think — and it turns out we are unreliable narrators.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 5, 2025
'I don't have a voice in my head': Life with no inner monologue
By Daniel Lawler
The inner monologue has proven extremely difficult to study because it relies on people being able to describe how they think.
A doctor administers COVID-19 vaccinations to members of the Latino community in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, in August 2021.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 5, 2025
As U.S. ditches diversity in clinical trials, all eyes on Europe
By Lin Taylor
The United States once led the world in running clinical trials that aimed to look like the nation at large.
A surgical team attend to a patient suffering from black fungus in Rajasthan, India.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 2, 2025
Once-rare fungal diseases are killing millions in an unprepared world
By Jason Gale
An estimated 6.5 million people develop invasive fungal infections each year, with about 2.5 million deaths directly caused by them.
A model of the Isar Aerospace mini-rocket
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 30, 2025
German startup's space rocket explodes after takeoff from Norway
The uncrewed Spectrum rocket was billed as the first attempt at an orbital flight to originate from Europe, where several nations have said they want a share of a growing market.
The World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva. The WHO is facing an income gap of nearly $600 million in 2025 and has "no choice" but to start making cutbacks, the organization's chief wrote in an internal email.
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 30, 2025
WHO must cut budget by a fifth after U.S. pullout
The WHO is facing an income gap of nearly $600 million in 2025 and has "no choice" but to start making cutbacks.

In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.
Japan and the U.S. begin tariff talks on good terms, but without breakthroughs
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, speaks to reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
Trump calls the U.S.-Japan alliance ‘one-sided.’ Tokyo says otherwise.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday in Washington.
Japan is by far the favorite country among Taiwanese: survey
A night market in Taipei in April
Japan to give India E5 and E3 shinkansen for free
A rendering of East Japan Railway's E10 series of bullet trains
Privacy and transparency clash in debate over bill on artificial insemination
Sachiko Ishizuka, who was born via artificial insemination by donor (AID), tells her story to lawmakers from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on April 9.
Why Ishiba became the first prime minister to hold talks with Rengo in 16 years
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Japanese Trade Union Confederation chief Tomoko Yoshino in a meeting Tuesday at the Prime Minister's Office
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.
Sumo's throwback regional tours offer glimpse into sport's heart and history
Kirishima (behind) battles Atamifuji during a regional tour event in Hyogo Prefecture in 2023.
China’s new bridge-forming barges offer new options for Taiwan invasion
This satellite image taken on March 25 shows three Chinese barges connected via extendable bridges in waters off Zhanjiang, in southern China's Guangdong province. Experts say the new barges could be used to land heavy equipment and thousands of personnel in a possible invasion of Taiwan.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
By Tomoko Otake

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