December 21, 2023

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Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber speaks during day three of the COP28 climate conference in Dubai on Saturday.

WORLD / Science & Health

Dec 4, 2023

COP28 president’s fossil-fuel phaseout talk draws condemnation

By Jennifer A Dlouhy and John Ainger

The comments have raised questions over whether the conference will be able to unite behind a strong pledge targeting the elimination of fossil fuels.

A Satellite image shows the world's largest iceberg, named A23a, in Antarctica on Nov. 15.

WORLD / Science & Health

Nov 25, 2023

World's largest iceberg breaks free and heads toward Southern Ocean

At almost 4,000 square kilometers (1,500 square miles), the Antarctic iceberg called A23a is roughly three times the size of New York City.

SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft is launched near Brownsville, Texas, on Saturday.

WORLD / Science & Health

Nov 19, 2023

SpaceX Starship explodes though craft reaches new milestones

By Loren Grush

SpaceX, known for its iterative approach to rocket development, is likely to view the overall flight as a success given the new milestones it achieved.

Alex Zhavoronkov, founder and chairman of Insilico Medicine, poses at his research facility in Suzhou, China, on Oct. 31.

WORLD / Science & Health

Nov 14, 2023

Race for first drug discovered by AI nears key milestone

By Kanoko Matsuyama

Insilico Medicine's AI-developed drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is in midstage trials in the U.S. and China.

A group of chimpanzees listen to other chimpanzees heard at a distance in the West African forests of Cote d'Ivoire, studied as part of research by the Tai Chimpanzee Project, in this undated handout photograph.

WORLD / Science & Health

Nov 3, 2023

Scientists observe chimpanzees using human-like warfare tactic

By Will Dunham

The study, the researchers said, records for the first time the tactical use of elevated terrain by our species' closest living relatives.

Saudi women exercise in a mall in Riyadh on Oct. 15. Long popular in the United States, another car-centric country with an obesity problem, mall-walking is increasingly becoming a Saudi sport.

WORLD / Science & Health

Oct 31, 2023

Saudis tackle obesity while beating heat with mall-walking

By Haitham El-Tabei

Roughly one in five Saudi adults is obese, according to an in-depth study published by the World Bank last year.

An iceberg in the Weddell Sea, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Researchers say they have detected buried under the continent's ice sheet a vast ancient landscape.

WORLD / Science & Health

Oct 26, 2023

Ancient landscape formed by rivers seen deep under Antarctic ice

By Will Dunham

Researchers say they have detected buried under the continent's ice sheet a vast ancient landscape, replete with valleys and ridges.

A still from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Big in Japan 2023: Anime, Murakami and The Legend of Zelda

A pair of wolves carved from wood exhibited at Mitsumine Shrine’s museum in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture

In praise of wolves

By Alex K.T. Martin

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