In a historic move, the World Health Organization (WHO) has finalized the world’s first global pandemic treaty—without the participation of the United States. As reported by Nature, the treaty establishes a framework
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Japan is on the verge of a major breakthrough in medicine, thanks to years of work on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) — a type of cell that can be turned
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President Donald Trump wants to be a modern ‘Stupor Mundi or wonder of the world. The last ‘stupor mundi’ was the celebrated German Holy Roman Emperor and crusader, Federick II, known as
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In a vision that sounds more like science fiction than architecture, Icelandic architect Arnhildur Pálmadóttir is proposing a radical rethink of urban construction: using molten lava as a sustainable building material. As
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A German man was fined €4,500 (approximately $5,100) on Tuesday after bizarrely infiltrating Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s official motorcade and embracing him on the tarmac at Frankfurt Airport. The incident, which occurred in
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The heads of Russia and Belarus’s intelligence agencies have declared their readiness to take “preemptive” action against NATO member states, citing what they claim is increasing Western military escalation near their borders.
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India is betting on low-cost ingenuity and a deep well of tech talent to gain ground in the global race for artificial intelligence dominance, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government launches a
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Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a confidential 2018 email that he had considered spinning off Instagram from the company, a move that could have significantly altered the landscape of social media.
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