A 4,000-year-old Sumerian proverb about a dog that walks into a tavern has left scholars and thousands of online commenters scratching their heads. The joke’s meaning has been lost, but finding it cou...

Offices in Angola and South Sudan closed last week, with the Zimbabwe office and others not far behind.

The prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital as authorities tried to put her to death on 30 September

Florida has tracked more than 250 locally acquired dengue cases this year.

The digital determinants of health refer to digitally mediated factors that increasingly shape lifestyle, behaviour, and social connections. Digital devices, infrastructure, and services—ranging from ...

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The Democratic National Committee is filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Department of Defense for a last-minute change that makes it harder for some U.S. citizens who live overseas to register to vote in November’s election

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.

With prospects for new treatments at an all-time high, researchers are looking for ways to boost survival by treating the disease early.

The state Department of Health says it will soon destroy its reserve of misoprostol pills, which is enough for 12,500 doses.

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Her new Obama Center sculpture honoring Harriet Tubman has thrust one of the District's most talented artists into the national spotlight.

Groundbreaking research led by a Swansea University academic has revealed a synthetic glycosystem — a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle — that can block Covid-19 from infecting human cells, reducing i...

Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.

New technology is enabling companies to reinvent the rip-off right under our noses; we need new laws to protect us.

New research in the Kruger National Park has found that rising CO₂ in the atmosphere helps savanna grasses grow when less water is available.

Latest demonstrations deepen a days-long crisis after parliament struck down two affordable housing decrees.

“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction narrative “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” follows five families around Atlanta as they seek to keep a roof over their heads and their ...

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.