Railway builders erect a box girder at the site of the standard project in front of the Huning section of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hefei high-speed railway in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, on January 10, 2025. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images China’s economy expanded by 5.4% in the fourth quarter, exceeding market expectations, as a flurry of […]
A nearly-extinct Caribbean reptile is showing signs of a comeback following years of conservation efforts. The population of the Sombrero ground lizard (Pholidoscelis corvinus) has increased from less than 100 individuals in 2018, to over 1,600 in 2024. The huge population jump is detailed in a survey released on December 18. A Sombrero ground lizard […]
Nature, Published online: 17 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04102-w Gene-editing technologies for cancer and blood disorders are maturing a little more than a year after the first CRISPR drug was approved.
Sydney Harbour taking in the Harbour Bridge, Opera House and ferries at sunrise during the COVID-19 pandemic on April 20, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. James D. Morgan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Australia’s economy grew at a slower-than-expected pace in the third quarter, as elevated borrowing costs and sticky inflation continued to weigh […]
Credit: Alamy The months following the birth of Colleen Sullivan’s first child, a son, in 2014 were rough. Sullivan, a developmental psychologist at Worcester State University in Worcester, Massachusetts, was back teaching just three weeks after an emergency caesarean section, pumping breast milk between classes and coming home, exhausted, to her newborn in the evenings. […]
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials are poised Thursday to reduce their key interest rate for a second straight time, responding to a steady slowdown of the inflation pressures that exasperated many Americans and contributed to Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. Yet the Fed’s future moves are now more uncertain in the aftermath of the election, […]
A week after catastrophic floods, some families are unsure if their relatives are alive. The government has still not issued a public tally of the missing.
Twenty-six more cases have been identified in a multistate E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder burgers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday. The 26 new cases represent a 50 percent increase in the case count from October 22, bringing the total to 75 cases. With the new cases, health […]
‘You are not my King’: Moment King Charles is heckled by Australian politician Some Indigenous leaders have criticised an Australian senator’s heckling of King Charles, as she faces a backlash over a violent image of the monarch briefly posted to her social media account. Lidia Thorpe, an Aboriginal woman, made global headlines when she shouted […]
As Congress enters a critical stretch to the November elections, a lengthy to-do list of critical funding items is piling in its absence. Congressional leaders have faced pressure from all sides to return early in recent weeks to approve additional disaster aid in the wake of back-to-back hurricanes. While there hasn’t been any appetite to…
