China's Clean Air Could Be Behind an Acceleration in Global Warming

Global warming has picked up pace since around 2010, leading to the recent string of record warm years. Why this is happening is still unclear, and among the biggest questions in climate science today. Our new study reveals that reductions in air...

Scientists Find Evidence Of Advanced Alien Civilizations

To the uninitiated, a Dyson sphere is a hypothetical engineering feat that only a civilisation far more advanced than our own would be capable of building. The prospect of such a construction was proposed by physicist and astronomer Freeman J....

$17.5B Deal Combines Waters with BD’s Biosciences and Diagnostics Business

Waters plans to combine with the Biosciences & Diagnostic Solutions business of BD (Becton, Dickinson & Co.), the companies said, in a $17.5 billion deal that would be the year’s largest within life sciences, let alone among tools companies. The...

'Beyond Our Wildest Dreams': This Founder's Scrappy Startup Has Raised More Than $39 Million — and Counting — for Small Businesses 'Facing an Extinction Event'

When Andy Hunter, founder and CEO of Bookshop.org, followed his lifelong passion for books into the publishing industry in 2009, he noticed an unsettling shift: The bookstores that had defined his childhood and communities were going out of...

China’s Moonshot launches open-source AI model, OpenAI postpones

Moonshot is the latest Chinese start-up to launch a new open-source AI model onto the market in the shape of Kimi 2, after DeepSeek shook the market back in January. Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI hopes to take on DeepSeek and other local Chinese...

89% of the world's children received key childhood vaccine last year

From: World Health Organization (WHO) Global childhood vaccination coverage holds steady, yet over 14 million infants remain unvaccinated – WHO, UNICEF In 2024, 89% of infants globally – about 115 million – received at least one dose of the...

Diabetes patients on Ozempic-like drugs more likely to develop gastroesophageal reflux disease

Canadian and South Korean researchers say type-2 diabetes patients taking glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), the group of drugs that includes Ozempic and Wegovy, are more likely to develop gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)...

Reddit is rolling out age verification in the UK

Reddit users in the United Kingdom will now be blocked from accessing “certain mature content” unless they complete the platform’s new age verification process. Reddit announced on Monday that UK users will need to upload a selfie or a photo of...

The EU is testing a prototype age verification app

The European Union is piloting a blueprint for age verification apps in Denmark, Greece, Spain, France, and Italy that aims to make it easier for online platforms to comply with rules that require them to protect minors. The app prototype was...

Nvidia says US has reversed course on AI chips to China

Following a week where CEO Jensen Huang met with Donald Trump in Washington, Nvidia says the administration will allow it to ship GPUs to China. It looks like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s charm offensive in Washington has paid off as the giant chip...

EXPERT REACTION: Landmark Australian Climate Case ruling

Today’s Federal Court decision in the Pabia Pabia v Commonwealth of Australia case saw Torres Strait Islanders asserting that the Commonwealth Government owed them a duty of care to prevent harm to their way of life from climate change....

Aluminium in childhood vaccines not linked to autoimmune, allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders

From: American College of Physicians Aluminum exposure from childhood vaccines not linked to increased risk of autoimmune, allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders A nationwide cohort study of Danish children examined the association between...

Common Infections During Pregnancy Don’t Harm Brain Development

Summary: A large Danish study found that common infections during pregnancy, such as pneumonia and urinary tract infections, do not harm a child’s brain development or cognitive abilities later in life. Researchers analyzed data from over 270,000...

Other news to note for July 15, 2025

Biopharma happenings in Asia-Pacific including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Adagene, Beone Medicines, Biocytogen, Brii, Chugai, Conjugatebio, Gero, Joincare Pharmaceutical, Lupin, Novartis, Perpetual...

Study Reveals How Long We Need to Walk to Prevent Chronic Back Pain

Long walks could both treat and prevent chronic low back pain, according to emerging research. A population-based study in Norway found people who walked for more than 78 minutes a day on average significantly reduced their risk of developing...

Regulatory actions for July 15, 2025

Regulatory snapshots, including drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations in Asia-Pacific: Ascentage Pharma, Connect Biopharma, Jiangsu Hengrui. BioWorld Asia Briefs Regulatory actions

NASA Rover Breaks Record For Longest Road Trip on Another Planet

Perseverance is hitting the 'open road' on Mars like no other rover. On June 19, the six-wheeled explorer officially completed the longest road trip of any robot vehicle on another planet. In a single drive, the rover rolled over 411 meters of...

Appointments and advancements July 14, 2025

Clues to extraterrestrial life found in deep sea on Earth

Scientists are looking down at the alien-looking creatures on the bottom of Earth’s deep sea to figure out what kind of extraterrestrial life may exist up in space. Extraterrestrial life is most likely to be microbial, contrary to popular...

Zimmer Biomet in $168M buy of ortho robotics maker Monogram

Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. reported it is buying orthopedic robotics maker Monogram Technologies Inc. for an upfront payment of $4.04 per share in cash, corresponding to an equity value of approximately $177 million and an enterprise value of...