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Cows graze in a field near the Green Bank Telescope, a 100-meter fully steerable radio telescope, at the Green Bank Observatory in the U.S. National Radio Quiet Zone in Green Bank, West Virginia, on May 20.

WORLD / Science & Health

Sep 2, 2024

Inside the 'golden age' of alien hunting at the Green Bank Telescope

By Issam AHMED

If intelligent life exists out there, there's a good chance the teams at the world's largest fully steerable radio astronomy facility will be the first to know.

A mother applies medication on the skin of her child who is under treatment for mpox, an infectious disease that causes a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and a fever, at a health center in the Congo on Aug. 19.

WORLD / Science & Health

Aug 29, 2024

Africa's mpox response is less than 10% funded, says Africa CDC

All of Africa is under pressure to curb an outbreak of mpox, a potentially deadly infection.

A woman shows a health worker the mpox lesions on her child at the Munigi mpox treatment center in Nyiragongo territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

WORLD / Science & Health

Aug 27, 2024

African scientists ‘working blindly’ to respond to fast-changing mpox strain

By Jennifer Rigby and Julie Steenhuysen

The numerous unknowns about the virus itself, its severity and how it is transmitting, is complicating the response.

Elisabeth Furaha applies medication on the skin of her child, Sagesse Hakizimana, who is undergoing treatment for mpox, near Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Aug. 19.

WORLD / Science & Health

Aug 25, 2024

Why mpox vaccines are only just arriving in Africa after two years

The slow arrival of the shots — available in many places outside Africa — showed that lessons from COVID-19 about global health care inequity must still be learned.

A rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner is launched on a mission to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on June 5.

WORLD / Science & Health

Aug 25, 2024

NASA picks SpaceX to rescue astronauts marooned in space

By Loren Grush

Boeing’s flawed Starliner craft will return without people on board in early September, the U.S. space agency said.

Health workers and patients in a ward for women infected with mpox at a hospital in Bujumbura, Burundi, on Thursday.

WORLD / Science & Health

Aug 23, 2024

WHO says partners can start talks to buy mpox vaccines before its approval

By Jennifer Rigby

Traditionally, organizations like Gavi, which helps lower-income countries buy vaccines, can only start purchasing shots once they have approval from the WHO.

In an image provided by federal agencies, a colorized electron microscope image shows avian influenza grown in cultured cells. The virus is poised to become a permanent presence in cattle, raising the odds of an eventual outbreak among people.

WORLD / Science & Health

Aug 22, 2024

How U.S. farms could start a bird flu pandemic

By Apoorva Mandavilli

The longer the virus circulates in cattle, the more chances it has to acquire the mutations necessary to set off an influenza pandemic.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

A store clerk tries to cool things down in front of their shop by spraying a hose.

Is extreme weather changing the way Japan shops?

By Alex K.T. Martin

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