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Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial on charges of mishandling government funds and making threats against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has begun after months of heightened political tensions in the country. In a dramatic turn, Duterte ally Senator Rodante Marcoleta was arrested on a plunder charge shortly before the start of the trial on…

For Norway’s national men’s soccer team, Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final against England will be a first in more ways than one. As the Scandinavian side prepares for the biggest match of its history, it will also face conditions almost unimaginable back home: the punishing combination of South Florida heat, humidity, and blazing sunshine that scientists…

By Biodun Busari The Nigerian Academy of Science has called on journalists to play a more active role in raising public awareness about climate change, describing the media as a critical partner in protecting public health and promoting climate resilience in the country. The call was made on Thursday during a media roundtable organised by…

Terrestrial planets experience landslides in spades, and so do some moons, asteroids and comets. But — until now — they’ve never been definitively spotted on Pluto, even though the icy world has all the ingredients necessary for their formation. Images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft reveal six large landslides on the dwarf planet, researchers…

High summer has returned to the UK, and with it, the usual warnings about the dangers of sunlight and reminders to seek shade and cover up. After years of such advice, most members of the public naturally assume that the science connecting sun exposure to poor health is well established, so people are often shocked…

A major barrier to harnessing energy via nuclear fusion is the fuel source. Most proposed fusion reactors (the donut-shaped tokamak reactors) are powered by the fusion of tritium and deuterium. Both are isotopes of hydrogen, but tritium is radioactive, and deuterium is stable. The fusion reaction between these two isotopes produces one helium nucleus, a…