Researchers analyzed 168,464 samples to uncover how geographic and technical factors shape global gut microbiome variation, highlighting underrepresented regions and technical biases.

Future Minerals Forum, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, attracted more than 18,000 attendees. Robert Fetell reports on some of the key themes.

This study addresses a novel and interesting question about how the rise of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau influenced patterns of bird migration, employing a multi-faceted approach that combines species ...

"The terrorists get a vote, and they're voting to keep fighting," former Trump counterterrorism envoy Nathan Sales told ...

Detailed livestock models are important for land-use planning, disaster relief and food insecurity.

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The immediate future portends important and substantive changes for us as the nation-state declines as a platform for the ...

As people in the Central African Republic prepare to vote in Sunday's referendum on constitutional changes, the country's armed groups appear not to be in a position to repeat the disruption they ...

Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians, nearly all of them women or children.

On Tuesday, the chief is to meet with protesters in the presence of police officers and officials from the central government to try and find a solution to the tensions troubling the community.

That has long been both an inequity and a missed opportunity, because the geology of western central Africa is so diverse that it makes this a perfect landscape to use this method." To develop the new ...

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