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Daniel Lawler
A woman wears eclipse-viewing glasses for direct observation of the sun in Beziers, southern France, on Wednesday, ahead of the Aug. 12 solar eclipse.
WORLD
Aug 6, 2026
¡®Like the end of the world¡¯: The eclipse chasers flocking to Spain
A small but growing community of ¡°eclipse-chasers¡± plan holidays around seeing total solar eclipses, which take place every year or two.
Graffiti during the spread of COVID-19 in New Delhi on Feb. 7, 2022. A high-profile panel found no association between a country's technical capacity and how well it handled the COVID-19 and AIDS pandemics.
WORLD
Jul 30, 2026
Inequality best predicts how nations handle pandemics, study finds
A high-profile panel found a clear and consistent link between a nation¡¯s level of economic inequality and how it performed during the COVID-19 and AIDS pandemics.
People cool off in the Trocadero Fountain next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris as temperatures rise during a heat wave affecting a large part of France, on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 23, 2026
Dangerous ¡®heat stress¡¯ has surged worldwide, study shows
Most of the world has seen increases in the number of tropical nights, when the ¡°feels-like¡± temperature does not get below 20 C, researchers found.
A doctor wearing protective gear stands near an ambulance at an Ebola treatment center in Bunia, eastern Congo, on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health / EXPLAINER
Jun 19, 2026
The vaccines and treatments being developed for Ebola outbreak
Scientists, pharmaceutical companies and funding bodies have been racing to develop new vaccines and treatments that can be swiftly and safely tested in humans.
The mummy of an iceman named Oetzi was discovered in 1991 in the Italian Schnal Valley glacier.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 3, 2026
Scientists find yeast in ancient Iceman¡¯s guts ¡ª and make bread
An analysis of his microbiome revealed a particular kind of a gut bacteria that is almost non-existent among modern humans.
Four cloned female mice sit on the gloved hand of researcher Teruhiko Wakayama inside a laboratory at the University of Yamanashi in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 15, 2026
Mammals cannot be cloned infinitely, Japanese mouse study shows
Researchers in Japan made the discovery after making 1,200 clones over two decades that started off with a single mouse.
Remnants of signage for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on the facade of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center building in Washington.
WORLD
Jan 20, 2026
The impact of Trump¡¯s foreign aid cuts, one year on
Some researchers estimate the USAID cuts have so far caused more than 750,000 deaths ¡ª over 500,000 of them children.
Russian President Vladimir Putin walks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a military parade in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Wednesday.
WORLD / Science & Health / EXPLAINER
Sep 5, 2025
Could humans live forever, as Putin was heard telling Xi?
Maybe not, experts say, though serious research is increasingly revealing more about why we age ¡ª and how we could try to stop it.
One out of every 5,000 births is affected by mitochondrial diseases, which cannot be treated, and include symptoms such as impaired vision, diabetes and muscle wasting.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 17, 2025
World-first IVF trial reduces risk of babies inheriting diseases
The results raise?hopes that women with mutations in their mitochondrial DNA could one day have children without passing debilitating or deadly diseases on to the children.
Recent preprint research suggests students who use ChatGPT to write essays engage in less critical thinking, with different areas of their brains connecting less often.
WORLD / Society
Jul 3, 2025
¡®Writing is thinking¡¯: Brain study prompts debate on ChatGPT use in education
The recent preprint research suggests students who use ChatGPT to write essays engage in less critical thinking, with different areas of their brains connecting less often.
The inner monologue has proven extremely difficult to study because it relies on people being able to describe how they think ¡ª 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
The inner monologue has proven extremely difficult to study because it relies on people being able to describe how they think.
A nurse prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 27, 2020, at Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. Five years since COVID-19 started upending the world, the virus is still infecting and killing people across the globe ¡ª though at far lower levels than during the height of the pandemic.
WORLD / Society
Jan 20, 2025
Vaccine misinformation: A lasting side effect from COVID-19
Concerns have emerged over whether vaccine hesitancy could inhibit the world¡¯s ability to fend off another pandemic.
Palestinians at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on Thursday.
WORLD
Jan 10, 2025
Gaza death toll 40% higher than recorded, peer-reviewed study estimates
New study used data from Gaza¡¯s health ministry, an online survey and social media obituaries to reach a best estimate of 64,260 deaths by June 30 last year.
One researcher claims that the much-touted long lifespans of Japan, Italy and other countries may be propped up by faulty data.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 25, 2024
The secret to living to 110? Bad record-keeping, says Ig Nobel Prize winner.
The true secret to extreme longevity seems to be to ¡°move where birth certificates are rare, teach your kids pension fraud and start lying,¡± the researcher has said.
There is no guarantee that bird flu will ever begin transmitting between humans, and U.S. health authorities have emphasized that the risk to the general public remains low.
WORLD
Dec 12, 2024
¡®Knocking on our door¡¯: Experts warn of bird flu¡¯s pandemic threat
U.S. health authorities have emphasized that the risk to the general public remains low.
A researcher works in the Ruvkun Lab in the Richard B. Simches Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday. U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for their discovery of microRNA and its role in how genes are regulated.
WORLD
Oct 8, 2024
What is microRNA? Nobel-winning discovery explained
Several treatments and tests are under development using microRNAs against cancer, heart disease, viruses and other illnesses.
Of the 384 people who died from all mpox strains in Congo this year, more than 60% were children, the World Health Organization has said.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 27, 2024
Fears emerge over new ¡®most dangerous¡¯ mpox strain crossing borders
The new deadlier strain transmits more easily between people ¡ª including through nonsexual contact ¡ª and is killing children and causing miscarriages in Congo.
The Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights, glow on the horizon as seen from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, on May 10.
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
May 18, 2024
¡®Danger behind the beauty¡¯: More solar storms could be heading our way
For those charged with protecting Earth from powerful solar storms such as the one that caused the recent auroras, a threat lurks beneath the stunning colors.
3M¡¯s Cottage Grove, Minnesota, factory had been churning out varieties of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances since the 1950s. Recent studies have linked widely used compounds within the chemical family to reduced immune response and cancer.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 4, 2024
How PFAS ¡®forever chemicals¡¯ affect human health
There is firm evidence that at least one of the more than 4,000 human-made chemicals called PFAS causes cancer.
Aissam Dam, 11, the first person to receive gene therapy in the U.S. for congenital deafness, signs to an interpreter during an interview at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on Jan. 16.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 28, 2024
¡®Game changer¡¯: Gene therapy offers hope for children born deaf
The treatment focuses on a rare genetic mutation that affects only a small number of the 26 million people with congenital deafness globally.
America¡¯s cyberforces grapple with cluster of deaths by suicide
The U.S. Cyber Command building (center) stands on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.
Speaking Japanese at the movies with ¡®Chiikawa¡¯
A "Chiikawa The Movie" poster is seen at Toho Cinemas in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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