The discoveries and findings that reach beyond the lab: prizes, global reports and research that changes medicine, industry and how we live.
Many molecules come in left- and right-handed forms, and life uses only one. Two chemists, working a decade apart, showed how a tiny imbalance between those forms can be amplified, work now used in designing reactions for drug manufacturing.
The headline figure matches the last edition, now extended to 2022. The emphasis has shifted: WWF wants readers to see that targeted conservation is working, and that energy, food and finance decide the rest.
About 170 million children and adolescents were living with obesity in 2024. The new guidance treats obesity as a chronic disease, leads with structured lifestyle programs, and draws a firm line on medicines for younger children.
The newest weight-loss medications work. The body-composition data from their trials also shows a cost that is easy to miss on a bathroom scale, and the research on how to limit it is getting clearer.
Most science coverage stops at the discovery. This desk follows it one step further, to the medicines it changes, the industries it reshapes and the decisions it puts in front of families and businesses.
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Nobel Prizes and major awards, global health guidance, environment and biodiversity, and research that changes medicine and industry.
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