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Julie Liu and David R. Liu attend the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 05, 2025 in Santa Monica, California.--AFP

Scientist rewriting DNA, and the future of medicine

A revolution is underway in gene editing - and at its forefront is David Liu, an American molecular biologist whose pioneering work is rewriting the building blocks of life with unprecedented precisi...
This photograph shows a Hygrocybe splendidissima mushroom, as deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on Earth, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned on March 27, 2025.--AFP

Hundreds of fungi species threatened with extinction: IUCN

Yoko, the chimpanzee, walks on its enclosure at Ukumari Biopark in Pereira, Colombia.-- AFP photos

Colombia’s lonely chimp Yoko finds new home in Brazil

These photos shows a small musky rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling marsupial weighing about the same as a loaf of bread, in the Atherton Tablelands, a highland region of northern Australia.--AFP photos

‘Musky’ marsupial could solve hopping kangaroo mystery

Siamese crocodiles resting at the Siamese Crocodile Breeding Facility in Phnom Tamao zoo.

‘We will preserve them’: Saving Cambodia’s crocodiles

This handout photograph shows manganese nodules dense area discovered at some 5,500 meters deep in the exclusive economic zone of Japan, around Minamitorishima located some 1,850 kilometers south of Tokyo. --AFP

‘Dark oxygen’: A deep-sea discovery that has split scientists

This picture shows a red panda at the central zoo in Lalitpur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu.--AFP photos

Nepal community efforts revive red panda population

This undated handout photo shows palaeontologist Anthony Romilio inspecting a boulder sitting outside a school which contains dinosaur footprints, in the town of Biloela, in central Queensland.--AFP photos

Trove of dinosaur footprints found at Australian school

(Top - From left to right) Fahd Al-Mulla, Dr Fatema Al-Rashed and Rasheed Ahmed. (Below- Left to right) Haleema Al-Saeed, Haya Al-Abduljader and Nadeem Akhter

Sleep disruption linked to inflammatory immune changes and health risks

This handout image released by EYOS Expeditions on January 19, 2024, shows an aerial view of the A23a iceberg in the waters of The Southern Ocean off Antarctica on January 14.

World’s biggest iceberg runs aground, sparing wildlife haven island

This undated handout photo shows palaeontologist Anthony Romilio inspecting a boulder sitting outside a school which contains dinosaur footprints, in the town of Biloela, in central Queensland.--AFP photos

Trove of dinosaur footprints found at Australian school

A trove of fossilized dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside an Australian school, scientists said on Wednesday. The rock went largely unnoticed for 20 years until the school, in Queensland’s rural Banana shire,...
(Top - From left to right) Fahd Al-Mulla, Dr Fatema Al-Rashed and Rasheed Ahmed. (Below- Left to right) Haleema Al-Saeed, Haya Al-Abduljader and Nadeem Akhter

Sleep disruption linked to inflammatory immune changes and health risks

KUWAIT: New research conducted by Dr Fatema Al-Rashed, Scientist at Dasman Diabetes Institute which is founded by Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, reveals insight into the impact sleep quality has on a person’s immune system and ...
This handout image released by EYOS Expeditions on January 19, 2024, shows an aerial view of the A23a iceberg in the waters of The Southern Ocean off Antarctica on January 14.

World’s biggest iceberg runs aground, sparing wildlife haven island

The world’s biggest iceberg appears to have run aground roughly 70 kilometers from a remote Antarctic island, potentially sparing the crucial wildlife haven from being hit, a research organization said Tuesday. The colossal iceberg A23a - which is...
A patient who was infected with COVID-19 and went into intensive care sits with a tension metre at the ORA ORA follow-up care and rehabilitation centre (Soins de Suite et Readaptation - SSR) for patients with overweight issues or obesity, in Pirae, Tahiti, French Polynesia, on September 10, 2021.--AFP

60% of adults will be overweight or obese by 2050

Nearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless governments take action, a large new study said Tuesday. The research published in the Lancet medical journal used data from 204 coun...
Physiotherapist Igor Simoes Andrade and young people with disabilities swim with pink dolphins (Inia geoffrensis).

In Brazil's Amazon, dolphin therapy aids people with disabilities

Floating in the Rio Negro river in the Brazilian Amazon, Luiz Felipe, who has Down Syndrome, beams as he hugs a pink dolphin during a special therapy session. Luiz Felipe, 27, is one of several patients with disabilities who traveled from the nearby...
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KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti jeweler arranges gold items at his shop in Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Gold prices drop notably
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LOS ANGELES: Protesters hold signs and flags and a large balloon with an image of US President Donald Trump during the nationwide "Hands Off!" protest against Trump and his advisor, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in downtown Los Angeles on April 5, 2025. — AFP photos
Americans rally against Trump ‘devastation’
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DHAKA: Garment workers sewing clothes at a Snowtex Group textile factory in Dhamrai, a sub-district in Dhaka. - AFP
US buyers halt orders from major garment producer Bangladesh
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Zionist entity deports 2 UK MPs
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KUWAIT: Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Abdullatif Al-Meshari, accompanied by senior officials, visits Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh on April 7, 2025.
Labor cities needed to tackle Jleeb challenges