Science

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Abandoned at Arabian Sea? How scientist’s 39-day delay for critical mission almost cost him his career

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Aid cuts and climate change drive deadly malaria surge in Zimbabwe

A surge in malaria cases in Zimbabwe is exposing fragile health systems and growing treatment shortages in rural areas.

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Fund for climate-exposed Pacific nation invests in fossil fuels

A trust fund set up to help a South Pacific nation gravely threatened by climate change has invested in coal mining, gas exploration and the world's largest crude oil refinery.

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Chinese team finds ‘garden-like’ ecosystem blooming in deepest ocean trenches

Scientists have discovered a thriving and previously unknown ecosystem in the planet’s deepest ocean trenches, feeding on organic debris from above. At those depths the pressure is enough to crush a submarine, and combined with perpetual…

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Japan Airlines wants to blast human culture into space and land it on the moon

A partnership between Japan Airlines and a space start-up marks the first step for the carrier to explore diversification beyond Earth-bound aviation, potentially boosting Japan’s ambition to expand its footprint on the moon. The airline…

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German mayor seeks to boost ties with Japan in space sector development

Andreas Bovenschulte, the mayor of Bremen, said Japan and Germany should cooperate more in the space sector to counter the dominance of SpaceX.

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Hong Kong beats Switzerland in global wealth management, study finds

There were $2.95 trillion of overseas assets in Hong Kong, based on the volume of foreign capital under management in 2025, compared with $2.946 trillion in Switzerland.

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NLC, Nigerian workers and Bonn test of climate justice

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) prepares for UNFCCC SB64 in Bonn, Germany, redefining climate change as a workers’ survival issue and advocating for clim Read More…

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The realme 16 5G is its own power bank

I’ll admit there’s a special place in my being for the realme number series. After a decade-long hiatus from tech media, I was reintroduced to the new era of smartphones with the realme 11 Pro 5G, a phone that came out right as the world…

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SpaceX's Starship rockets are grounded pending investigation after test flight

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX Starship launches are on hold pending an investigation into last week’s test flight.

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Commentary: Ex-Malaysian ministers Rafizi and Nik Nazmi’s 'kamikaze' mission is a brazen double dare

Two former Malaysian ministers have launched their own political party. There is much derring-do in the move, it is too early to write off the new entity, says this ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute researcher.

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How Loreto stood up to the cruise industry and reversed a presidential decree

When a presidential decree opened the UNESCO-designated Loreto Bay National Park to large-scale maritime traffic, residents of the coastal Baja California Sur town were prepared to fight. The town of Loreto, with a population of around…