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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivers remarks while President Donald Trump listens during a news conference to announce a link between autism and childhood vaccines and the use of popular pain medication Tylenol for pregnant women and children, claims which are not backed by science, at the White House in Washington in September last year.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 11, 2026
Trust in science falls as COVID-era confidence fades, global survey finds
The retreat has potentially far-reaching consequences for public health as vaccination rates decline and preventable diseases resurge.
Weakened by the U.S. withdrawal and other countries’ cutting foreign aid spending, the WHO was forced to undergo sweeping reforms last year.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 9, 2026
China announces candidate for WHO chief
The move could signal intent to expand its influence at the WHO, even though questions persist about Beijing’s transparency over COVID-19.
A calcium fluoride crystal, in its holder, that incorporates large numbers of thorium nuclei is seen inside the vacuum system of a nuclear clock, with a laser beam probing the thorium nuclei, at a laboratory at TU Wien in Vienna, in this handout image released Wednesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 8, 2026
Scientists in Vienna and Beijing create world’s first nuclear clocks
One of the scientists said he envisions uses for nuclear clocks in areas such as satellite-based navigation and the synchronization of data transfer.
Jonathan, a giant tortoise believed to be the world's oldest known living land animal, stands in front of Plantation House, in St. Paul on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 8, 2026
A 194-year-old tortoise, world’s oldest land animal, may hold clues to longer life
Jonathan the giant tortoise may owe his longevity to genetic traits and an ability to keep key cellular systems functioning in a more youthful way.
Francis Halzen is announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2026
Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in physics
Among past laureates are some of the most celebrated figures in science, including Albert Einstein, Marie and Pierre Curie, Max Planck and Niels Bohr.
A worker visits a patient in an isolation unit at an Ebola treatment center in Monigi, Congo, in June.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2026
Ebola spreads ‘like wildfire’ as health workers battle exhaustion
The widening footprint of hot spots is straining a humanitarian response weakened by major aid cuts.
A view of the Medical Assistance and Rescue Center, an infectious diseases hospital, in the town of Shelekhov, Russia, on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2026
Dozens quarantined in Siberia after plague institute lab worker dies
The death has sparked public health fears on social media, but the authorities said on Monday the situation was under control.

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