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Coverage of scientific research and breakthroughs, environmental issues, and health.

Ziel mir keng! Science Check

Quantum computers: opportunities and risks

Acetaminophen is the primary active ingredient in over-the-counter medications including Tylenol, and is the safest medication for treating pain and fever in pregnant women according to scientific and medical consensus

Unsubstantiated claims

US appeals court revives private cases alleging Tylenol link to autism

Visible from Luxembourg

A rare solar eclipse is coming this August

Scientists are using drones to collect gases from a volcano on Italy's Aeolian islands

Volcano monitoring

In Sicily, drones at work to predict volcanic eruptions

The Trump administration has sought to weaken the landmark Endangered Species Act, credited with saving iconic animals including the bald eagle

Narrowing definition of 'harm'

Trump administration weakens habitat protections for endangered species

Scientists have detected the highly contagious H5 bird flu in a greater crested tern, the first time it has been found in Australia's local wildlife

Highly contagious

H5 bird flu detected in Australian seabird for first time

President Donald Trump's administration moved to loosen truck pollution regulations put in place by his predecessor Joe Biden, in its latest environmental rollback

Latest environmental rollback

US pushes for weaker truck pollution rules

El Ninos are linked with warming sea surfaces in the eastern tropical Pacific, with global knock on effects, including wetter winters in East Africa

To avoid chaos scenarios

Artificial cloud brightening could tame El Nino, but with risks: study

Barcelona registered a maximum temperature of 40.7C on Wednesday, its highest figure in 112 years of records

Barcelona sets new heat record at 40.7C: weather agencies

Fast-flowing muddy water burst the banks of 40 rivers and waterways in China's Guanxi province

130,000 evacuated

Rescuers search for survivors of China storms as super typhoon nears

An employee points to a computer monitor display showing the temperatures inside the display cases as they monitor the temperatures during the heatwave, at London's Grant Museum of Zoology

Heat and flooding

UK museums at 'sharp end' of climate change challenge

Samata Mahmoud unfurls the sail on his 'lanche' boat in Mauritania's Banc d'Arguin National Park

Amid climate change, overfishing

In Mauritania, Imraguen people's desert-ocean paradise under threat

Cambodia's last confirmed tiger sighting was in 2007 camera trap footage but conservationists say they may soon be able to reintroduce the big cats

Cambodia wants to bring tigers back, but should it?

A man wears eclipse-viewing glasses in Burgos on July 2, 2026

'Unique event': Solar eclipse fever fills empty Spain

Rome eventually vanquished its Carthagenian rivals in the Third Punic War

Crossroads of biology and history

Study points to likely route for Hannibal's legendary Alpine crossing

El Nino can lead to droughts in some parts of the world and flooding in others

Weather phenomenon

This year's El Nino likely to become record-breaker: top expert

A health ministry worker showing vaccine doses for an immunisation campaign in Guatemala

Refreshed sense of urgency

Jolted by Ebola, countries try again to finish pandemic treaty

An artist's impression of a quasar, the black hole-powered brightest objects in the universe

Universe's brightest objects

Oldest quasars ever discovered add to 'perplexing' space mystery

Surfers in Guam have taken advantage of high waves ahead of the storm's arrival in the region

'Catastrophic' Super Typhoon Bavi aims at US Pacific island Rota

A tailored approach

Tackling wild boar overpopulation at Haff Réimech

Hidden all along?

Green toad confirmed in Luxembourg for the first time

Scientists are determining whether a new species of ghost shark has been discovered in waters off Costa Rica

Latest discovery

New species of ghost shark may have been found in Costa Rica

Workers secure a gas station ahead of the arrival of the forecasted Super Typhoon Bavi in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, on July 3, 2026.

'Super typhoon' Bavi heads for US Pacific islands

Scientists say heatwaves are becoming stronger and longer due to climate change.

Not in a good way

One for the history books: what we know about the European heatwave

Darkness returns

The July night sky in Luxembourg

Oceans store about 90 percent of the excess heat trapped in the Earth's climate by excess greenhouse gases

Ahead of El Niño

World's oceans break June heat record: EU monitor

D'Pisciculture zu Lëntgen.

High water temperatures threaten Luxembourg's aquatic life

The World Bank said it was renewing its climate policy indefinitely but dropped climate-financing targets that the Trump administration has objected to

After objections from Trump administration

World Bank drops climate finance targets in renewed action plan

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