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Fiji minister urges 'quicker' plastic pollution treaty 12 Oct 2023 - 11:12 am
This photograph shows waste trapped by a net from a rainwater outlet channel, in Rouen, north-western France, on March 28, 2023. Photo by Lou BENOIST / AFP
NASA shows off first asteroid samples delivered by spacecraft 11 Oct 2023 - 07:02 pm
In this still image from a NASA TV broadcast from Houston, Texas, on October 11, 2023, shows the OSIRIS-REx sample collector with sample material from asteroid Bennu. (Photo by Handout / NASA TV / AFP)
'Paradigm shift' needed on plastics health risk: researchers 11 Oct 2023 - 02:39 pm
This picture shows plastic bottles at a Recycle Factory in the city of Megara near Athens, on May 26, 2023. (Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP)
Virgin Galactic carries first Pakistani into space 07 Oct 2023 - 12:35 pm
(Files) Namira Salim, the first Pakistani woman astronaut, speaks during a press conference in Islamabad on August 17, 2006. (Photo by Farooq Naeem / AFP)
Karikó and Weissman win Nobel Prize in medicine for work that enabled mRNA COVID-19 vaccines 02 Oct 2023 - 09:11 pm
A screen at the Karolinska Institute shows this year's laureates Katalin Kariko of Hungary (L) and Drew Weissman of the US during the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on October 2, 2023. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)
Brain implants could restore paralyzed patients' arm movements 27 Sep 2023 - 11:19 pm
This April 12, 2020, image courtesy of ONWARD Medical shows the insertion of the lead electrodes into the Neurostimulator (IPG). The stimulator, implanted in the abdomen, connected to electrodes used to stimulate the spinal cord of paralyzed patients to help them regain movement. (Photo by Marc Amiguet / ONWARD Medical / AFP)
Mysterious antimatter observed falling down for first time 27 Sep 2023 - 09:31 pm
This handout photograph released by CERN on September 27, 2023, shows the insertion of ALPHA-g apparatus at CERN in Geneva on October 15, 2018. (Photo by Handout / CERN / AFP)
NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft 24 Sep 2023 - 11:06 pm
The sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert on September 24, 2023 at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range in Dugway, Utah. (Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA / AFP)
NASA capsule bearing asteroid sample in imminent return to Earth 24 Sep 2023 - 04:57 pm
Crews move one of the helicopters that will participate in the Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return recovery mission out of a hanger at Dugway, Utah early September 24, 2023. (Photo by George Frey / AFP)
Recycling plastic not enough, warns UN environment chief 23 Sep 2023 - 02:17 pm
Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, speaks during an interview at UN headquarters in New York City on September 21, 2023. (Photo by Ed Jones / AFP)
Hidden ocean the source of CO2 on Jupiter moon: research 21 Sep 2023 - 09:38 pm
This handout image released by NASA on September 21, 2023, shows the planet Jupiter (right) and it's moon Europa (left) as seen through The James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam instrument 2.12 micron filter.  (Photo by B. Holler and J. Stansberry / ESA, NASA, CSA, STScI / AFP) 
Elon Musk’s brain startup Neuralink is recruiting for its first human clinical trial 20 Sep 2023 - 08:51 pm
This video grab made from the online Neuralink livestream shows Elon Musk standing next to the surgical robot during his Neuralink presentation on August 28, 2020.(Photo by Neuralink / AFP)
Two Russians, American reach space station 15 Sep 2023 - 11:12 pm
The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft carrying the International space Station (ISS) Expedition 70-71 crew of US NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara and Russian Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub blasts off to the ISS from the Moscow-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 15, 2023. (Photo by VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO / AFP)
NASA to publish long-awaited UFO report 14 Sep 2023 - 10:42 am
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Small islands take ocean protection case to UN court 11 Sep 2023 - 02:25 pm
Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda speaks during a hearing at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas (ITLOS) on September 11, 2023 in Hamburg, northern Germany. Photo by Gregor Fischer / AFP
Amateur makes 'gold find of the century' in Norway 07 Sep 2023 - 02:21 pm
Handout photo released on September 7, 2023, by the Museum of Archaeology and the University of Stavanger (UiS) shows amateur archaeologist Erlend Bore posing with gold treasure in Stavanger. (Photo by Anniken Celine Berger / various sources / AFP)
Newly discovered comet visible in night sky this weekend 06 Sep 2023 - 10:11 pm
This handout image released by NASA on September 6, 2023, shows 'comet Nishimura' at an undisclosed location in space. (Photo by Dan Bartlett / NASA / AFP) 
It's official. Meteorologists say this summer's swelter was a global record breaker for high heat 06 Sep 2023 - 12:08 pm
This photograph taken on August 22, 2023, shows burnt sunflowers in a field during a heat wave in the suburbs of Puy Saint Martin village, southeastern France, on August 22, 2023, where the temperature reached 43ーcentigrade. Photo by JEFF PACHOUD / AFP