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WHO Report: 1.4 Billion People Worldwide Living with Hypertension, Urgent Action Needed

WHO Report: 1.4 Billion People Worldwide Living with Hypertension, Urgent Action Needed

Geneva, Switzerland— The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its second Global Hypertension Report, revealing that 1.4 billion…

Oct 7, 20253 min read
MetLife Joins Forces with Global Citizen to Combat Extreme Poverty

MetLife Joins Forces with Global Citizen to Combat Extreme Poverty

New York — At the 2025 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, MetLife announced a major three-year partnership…

Oct 7, 20252 min read
Chemists create red fluorescent dyes that may enable clearer biomedical imagingdyes

Chemists create red fluorescent dyes that may enable clearer biomedical imagingdyes

CAMBRIDGE, MA — MIT chemists have designed a new type of fluorescent molecule that they hope could be…

Oct 7, 20256 min read
Body of Korean Mountaineer PARK Airlifted to Kathmandu

Body of Korean Mountaineer PARK Airlifted to Kathmandu

Kathmandu, October 6 — The body of 46-year-old Korean national Taejun Park has been airlifted to Kathmandu through…

Oct 6, 20251 min read
Finding treasures with physics: The fingerprint matrix

Finding treasures with physics: The fingerprint matrix

How do you find objects buried in sand or hidden in thick fog? A team from the Institut…

Oct 6, 20255 min read
Volcanic ash may enhance phytoplankton growth in the ocean over 100 km away

Volcanic ash may enhance phytoplankton growth in the ocean over 100 km away

A research group in Japan has suggested that ash released from volcanic eruptions on Nishinoshima Island—part of Japan’s…

Oct 6, 20254 min read

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IAEA helps European countries prepare for emerging cattle disease

IAEA helps European countries prepare for emerging cattle disease

ByAmrita TuladharAug 16, 20163 min read

Traditionally common to Africa and Asia, lumpy skin disease emerged in Turkey in 2013 and has since rapidly spread through south-eastern Europe. The disease has been detected to date in six European countries – Greece, Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Albania and Montenegro – with new cases being reported weekly.

WARF, UW-Madison again rank in top 10 universities for U.S. patents

WARF, UW-Madison again rank in top 10 universities for U.S. patents

ByAmrita TuladharAug 14, 20165 min read

An annual report issued last month ranks the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private nonprofit foundation that manages intellectual property on behalf of the University of Wisconsin—Madison, as 7th…

The LHC MoEDAL experiment publishes its first paper on its search for magnetic monopoles

The LHC MoEDAL experiment publishes its first paper on its search for magnetic monopoles

ByAmrita TuladharAug 10, 20163 min read

In a paper published by the journal JHEP, the MoEDAL experiment at CERN narrows the window of where to search for a hypothetical particle, the magnetic monopole.

Summer school shines

Summer school shines

ByAmrita TuladharAug 9, 20162 min read

Young scientists from all over the world have gathered for their two-week summer school course at ESA’s ESRIN centre for Earth observation in Frascati, Italy.