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Bird flu detected in Antarctica region for first time 24 Oct 2023 - 05:59 pm
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Faster West Antarctic Ice Sheet melting unavoidable 23 Oct 2023 - 06:20 pm
Blocks of melting ice near the French station at Dumont díUrville in East Antarctica. (Reuters file photo)
'Embrace discomfort' to save planet says N Macedonia pioneer 21 Oct 2023 - 11:24 am
Dimche Ackov shows his makeshift home constructed from entirely locally-sourced supplies, near the town of Veles, in central North Macedonia on October 7, 2023. (Photo by Robert Atanasovski / AFP)
Senegal awash in plastic from popular water sachets 13 Oct 2023 - 11:35 am
A woman drinks from a plastic sachets filled with drinkable water in Dakar, on August 25, 2023. Photo by SEYLLOU / AFP
Five things to know about NASA's mission to a metal world 12 Oct 2023 - 11:20 pm
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaks during a press conference for the OSIRIS-REx sample unveiling at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on October 11, 2023. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP)
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)