Nearly 800 Indonesians have fallen ill in a series of separate food-poisoning incidents linked to President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free meals programme, raising fresh questions over the safety and management of a
From the infamous skunk cabbage to corpse flowers that reek of rotting meat, foul-smelling flora have long fascinated botanists and repelled unsuspecting hikers. Now, a groundbreaking study published in Science reveals the
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A groundbreaking study published today in Nature has upended long-held assumptions about the Phoenicians, the ancient seafaring civilization known for spreading culture and commerce across the Mediterranean for over a millennium. While
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A decade after Vincent Stenberg made medical history in Sweden as the world’s first baby born from a transplanted womb, Britain has now celebrated its own historic moment with the birth of
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In the wake of egg shortages and soaring prices caused by a recent bird flu outbreak, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have unveiled a promising new technology that could help
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A recent study examining Syrian refugee families suggests that the trauma of war may leave genetic imprints that persist across generations. As Nature reports, this research contributes to the ongoing debate about
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A groundbreaking study has provided the most detailed picture of the physiological changes that women’s bodies undergo during and after pregnancy. Published in Science Advances recently, the research involved analyzing over 300,000
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Abu Dhabi is aiming to turn one of its most unique and valuable resources—its citizens’ genetic information—into a highly profitable and transformative business. With the backing of Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan,
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, is once again making headlines as he visits India to push his health and vaccination agenda. Known
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Burkina Faso’s President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has reportedly declined an offer from Saudi Arabia to construct 200 mosques in the country, urging the kingdom to prioritize investments in critical infrastructure such as
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by Durga Edna Bonhomme’s A History of the World in Six Plagues is no passive chronology of pandemics—it is an excoriating treatise on the intersections of disease, colonialism, and the necropolitical calculus
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A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Raymond Chan from the Institute of Psychology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences reveals that individuals with high social anhedonia—a reduced ability to derive pleasure from
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Across China, families are grappling with the crippling financial burden of catastrophic health expenditures, a crisis that is not only devastating household finances but also stifling economic growth. The soaring cost of
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A groundbreaking study from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden has unveiled promising results suggesting that sulforaphane, a compound found in broccoli sprouts, could help lower blood sugar levels in individuals with
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David Webb, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent activist investors and a vocal critic of corporate malfeasance, has revealed that he has months left to live after battling metastatic prostate cancer for
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Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) remains a deeply ingrained cultural practice affecting an estimated 200 million women and girls worldwide, especially in at least 25 African countries, parts of the Middle
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