The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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A third believe there are "no-go" areas ruled by Sharia law

The long read: Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place...

The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

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A groundbreaking study hints at a hazy boundary between “life” and “non-life,” as well as two distinct origins of biology on Earth

The official journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Publishes research concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Articles treat the social h...

And what it means for patriotic pro-pollution politicians on both sides of the Atlantic

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

Critics said I was attacking motorists. It’s more important for me that the city’s children are no longer breathing dangerous levels of pollution, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

Is innovation bias getting in the way? Questioning conventional assumptions about Innovation

Not long ago two UK-based African scholars, Drs Bukola Faturoti (from Nigeria) and Jade Kouletakis (South Africa) invited me to talk and write on Africa and international intellectual property law.

Peanuts, chickens and a researcher are among those who have left their mark on the cloth

Arbuthnot et al. examine efforts to establish mRNA vaccine manufacturing capacity in Africa. They conclude that although major progress has been made in building scientific, manufacturing and regulato...

Organic farming has shown the strongest evidence of delivering Defra’s environmental goals in a major government-backed review.

As Pfizer and Moderna have tied off certain threads in their separate webs of mRNA patent litigation, Sanofi has opened a new front to challenge the companies’ blockbuster COVID-19 vaccines. < | As Pf...

A new UK bill aims to formalise nature as an entity with its own rights, and acknowledge our interdependence is vital for planetary survival

New research shows that the oldest surviving anatomical atlas comes from Han Dynasty China, and was written over 2,000 years ago.

For decades, foreign firms established settlements in the Brazilian Amazon to support extractive activities, only to eventually abandon both workers and the buildings

A vanishing road in the Xingu region exemplifies what is at stake in Brazil’s October election.