Environment
EU’s Innovation Commissioner on Efforts to Boost Research
The EU's Commissioner for Research, Startups and Innovation, Ekaterina Zaharieva, tells Bloomberg's Oliver Crook that the EU is looking to boost research in areas including AI, bio-economy, quantum and cleantech. That's as the bloc...
Science
A chemical in plastics is tied to heart disease deaths
A common chemical in household plastics has been linked with heart disease deaths.In 2018, about 13.5 percent of the more than 2.6 million deaths from cardiovascular disease among people ages 55 to 64 globally could have been related to...
Environment
As US doubles down on fossil fuels, communities will have to adapt to the consequences − yet climate adaptation funding is on the chopping...
It’s no secret that warming temperatures, wildfires and flash floods are increasingly affecting lives across the United States. With the U.S. government now planning to ramp up fossil fuel use, the risks of these events...
Life
Struggling care providers say overseas worker crackdown ‘short-sighted’
Alison HoltSocial affairs editorGetty ImagesCare providers have said the government is taking away the "lifeline" of overseas recruitment without fixing the problems that make it difficult to recruit UK staff.Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister, announced sweeping reforms to...
Life
Khloe Kardashian popcorn: Are protein snacks useful and worth it?
BBC"High-protein" versions of snacks and food staples are all over our supermarket shelves - from pancakes and pasta, to rice pudding and oven pizza.Celebrities are getting in on the act too. Khloe Kardashian unveiled Khloud Protein Popcorn a fortnight...
Life
“The Food Babe” helps lead the charge against some food dyes
"The Food Babe" helps lead the charge against some food dyes - CBS News ...
Life
How a Sheep-Herding Cardiologist Spends His Sundays
Five mornings a week, Dr. David Slotwiner, the chief of cardiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital, can be found tending to human hearts.But on Sunday mornings, he is on a grass-covered field at a rural farm in Hackettstown, N.J., standing...
Life
What to Know About the Hepatitis A Outbreak in L.A. County
Public health officials in Los Angeles County have declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, a highly contagious liver infection driven by a virus that can, in rare cases, cause severe illness.The condition, which is typically identified in fewer than...
Space
25 Years of NASA Student Launch – NASA
Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch launch day competition in Toney, Alabama, on April 4, 2025. More than 980 middle school, high school, and...
Life
Does intermittent fasting improve gut health? Why it’s hard to say
There is evidence that intermittent fasting alters the gut microbiome, and while this is often believed to improve gut...