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James Watson — the Nobel laureate co-credited with the pivotal discovery of DNA's double-helix structure — has died, his former lab said Friday. He was 97.
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James Watson, Nobel prize-winning DNA pioneer, dead at 97
Watson was co-credited for the discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, but his reputation was later tainted by his repeated racist remarks.
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Researchers in U.S. and Japan offer insight into ghostly neutrinos
The new study is providing insight into the difference in mass between neutrino types, a key unanswered question.
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Robot dogs and AI drone swarms: How China could use DeepSeek for war
A review of research papers, patents and procurement records gives a snapshot of Beijing's systematic effort to harness artificial intelligence for military advantage.
A bright band of diffuse gamma rays glows along the map's center, which marks the central plane of the Milky Way galaxy, in this undated image based on five years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
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Oct 17, 2025
Scientists move closer to confirming existence of dark matter
By Will Dunham
Scientists are confident dark matter exists because of its gravitational effects in the universe, but because of its very nature, its existence has been hard to prove.
A health worker administers HPV vaccine to a student in Islamabad on Sept. 24.
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Oct 14, 2025
Spread of drug-resistant superbugs surging, WHO warns
By Nina LARSON
The United Nations' health agency warned that one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections worldwide in 2023 showed resistance to antibiotic treatments.
John Clarke, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, is interviewed on campus on Tuesday after being named one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics.
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Oct 10, 2025
Nobel Prizes this year offer three cheers for slow science
By Katrina Miller
In an age when government efficiency has been used to justify sharp cuts to scientific funding, the science Nobels offer a case for plodding curiosity.
A bust of Swedish chemist, inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, founder and namesake of the Nobel Prize, stands at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday.
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Oct 7, 2025
Nobel physics prize goes to pioneers of quantum mechanics
By Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander
Quantum technology is already ubiquitous, with transistors in computer microchips an everyday example.
Boxes of single-use e-cigarettes are displayed for sale on shelves in a shop in Gardanne, France
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2025
Surging numbers of children using e-cigarettes, WHO says
In countries that have the data, children are on average nine times more likely than adults to vape, the organization said.
A Fisheries and Oceans Canada team patrols the Grand River in Dunnville, Ontario, in search of invasive grass carp specimens on Sept. 25.
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Oct 6, 2025
Americans and Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp
If the battle against invasive carp were to fail, the consequences could be both dire and unpredictable.
Fatimata Madou shows a photo of Mohamat, her 9-month-old child who died of malaria.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 3, 2025
Babies' deaths in Cameroon show how U.S. aid cuts curtail malaria fight
By Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Robbie COREY-BOULET and Jennifer Rigby
Upon taking office in January, U.S. President Donald Trump paused all foreign aid, including the President's Malaria Initiative, launched in 2005 by George W. Bush.

Tsunami threat passes following magnitude 6.9 quake off Iwate
A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture on Sunday evening following a strong earthquake. The advisory was later called off, after waves measuring 20 centimeters were recorded in some areas.
Japan to subsidize demolition of abandoned inns
Abandoned Japanese-style inns in the Kinugawa hot springs resort in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, in March 2023
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
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