Japan declares a flu epidemic — what this means for other nations
Cases of influenza are surging in Japan.Credit: Kota Kawasaki/Yomiuri Shimbun via AP/Alamy Japan’s health authorities have declared an influenza epidemic,…
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You have full access to this article via your institution. Food insecurity worsened after prices surged during the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Living materials Colomina compares modern architecture to antibiotics. Just as the widespread use of these drugs has driven antibiotic resistance,…
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Achieving the global temperature targets set in the Paris climate agreement requires deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, and therefore…
Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why
Achieving the global temperature targets set in the Paris climate agreement requires deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, and therefore…
The quest to make babies with lab-grown eggs and sperm
Off a quiet hallway on the top floor of a building at the University of Osaka in Japan, Katsuhiko Hayashi…
Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll
The closure of the US government has shuttered the Smithsonian Institution’s museums and zoo and some of its research facilities….
UNESCO stands at a crossroads — researchers must back its new leader
You have full access to this article via your institution. Khaled El-Enany pictured in 2019, when he was Egypt’s minister…