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Researchers are calling for urgent action and global policy reforms to address widespread global obesity pandemic by 2050.

After rereading the entire works of the great Victorian novelist during the pandemic, Peter Conrad became convinced – whisper it – that Dickens is an even greater writer than that other British literary giant, the Bard

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Move comes after government said it would halve subsidies that allowed firm to make ‘unacceptably large profits’

The rise reflects an increase in marriages after the COVID pandemic as well as government policies taking effect.

The Trump administration is planning to invoke Title 42, which labels migrants trying to enter the U.S. a public risk and was used during the Covid pandemic.

This Friday, February 28, marks five years since COVID-19 was first reported in Aotearoa New Zealand. At a population level, it remains our most harmful infectious disease, with thousands of hospitalisations and 664 deaths last year.

In a January 24 interview with the far-right-wing outlet Breitbart News, newly appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe stated that assessing intelligence on a potential Wuhan lab leak was a top priority. The following day, The New York Times reported that the agency had shifted from an undecided stance to favoring a…

Carl Zimmer writes a history of aerobiology in “Air-borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe.”