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French scientists probe mRNA’s potential to fight cancer
AFP, Published on 20/11/2025
» ORLEANS, France - Inside a lab in the French city of Orleans, scientists are testing out the limits of molecules in our body called messenger RNA — best known for being used in Covid-19 vaccines — in the hopes of finding a breakthrough treatment for a particularly deadly cancer.
Killer whales spotted grooming each other with seaweed
AFP, Published on 24/06/2025
» PARIS - Killer whales have been caught on video breaking off pieces of seaweed to rub and groom each other, scientists announced on Monday, saying it was the first evidence of marine mammals making their own tools.
Subterranean ‘baby dragons’ found to sneak up to the surface
New York Times, Published on 13/03/2024
» NEW YORK - Scientists have discovered that blind cave salamanders in northern Italy leave their underground homes to go on expeditions to the surface. Eyeless and ghostly pale from millions of years spent below ground, the salamanders appear to commute back and forth to the sunny surface using springs where water bubbles up from hundreds of feet deep.
Data confirm 2023 as hottest year on record
Reuters, Published on 09/01/2024
» BRUSSELS - Last year was the planet’s hottest on record by a substantial margin and likely the world’s warmest in the last 100,000 years, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Tuesday.
Frozen library of ancient ice tells tales of climate's past
AFP, Published on 16/11/2023
» COPENHAGEN - How was the air breathed by Caesar, the Prophet Mohammed or Christopher Columbus? A giant freezer in Copenhagen holds the answers, storing blocks of ice with atmospheric tales thousands of years old.
Scientists explain why peanuts 'dance' when dropped in beer
AFP, Published on 14/06/2023
» PARIS - When peanuts are dropped into a pint of beer, they initially sink to the bottom before floating up and "dancing" in the glass.
Stinky seaweed plagues French Caribbean beaches
Published on 02/05/2023
» CAPESTERRE-BELLE-EAU, Guadeloupe: Jose Viator was hoping tourists would flock to his beachside bar on the French archipelago of Guadeloupe, but he has been forced to close because of stinky brown seaweed.
Ancient Arctic ice saved to preserve climate history
AFP, Published on 22/04/2023
» PARIS: Scientists have succeeded in saving samples of ancient Arctic ice for analysis in a race against time before it melts away due to climate change, they said this week.
Cyclone Freddy death toll in Malawi hits 326
AFP, Published on 17/03/2023
» BLANTYRE (MALAWI): The death toll in Malawi from Cyclone Freddy has risen to 326, the country's president said Thursday, bringing the total number of victims across southern Africa to more than 400 since February.
Malawians dig through mud for cyclone dead
AFP, Published on 16/03/2023
» BLANTYRE, Malawi: Lacking sniffer dogs and armed just with shovels, rescuers in storm-ravaged Malawi on Thursday went on a grim hunt for buried bodies after Cyclone Freddy struck the southern African country, killing more than 200 people.