DW.COM - Sci-Tech

The Finnish capital Helsinki went a whole year without a traffic fatality. Smart, data-driven city planning helped.

Hot weather can make it hard to get a good night's rest. But there are scientifically proven methods to fall asleep quickly.

US Government cuts to mRNA vaccine research could set back technological advances and reduce access to therapies, while raising their costs.

Scientists say earthquake prediction is impossible, but studying the 2025 Myanmar earthquake may help forecast when and where the next big tremor could strike.

A new executive order grants Trump appointees authority over all US federal research funding. Critics say the order is an authoritarian assault on science.

Organized networks are infiltrating the academic publishing system to promote fake science, say experts investigating research fraud. A new study highlights the major challenge for modern science.

Even if food aid reaches Gaza, Sudan and other famine zones, complications can arise in malnourished or starving people when they regain access to regular meals. Those complications can be fatal.

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has slashed government spending on mRNA vaccine research. Experts warn it will boost global vulnerability to future pandemics.

Healthy trees contain more than one trillion different bacteria, fungi and viruses, a new study has found. These wood microbiomes could hold clues about forest health and climate change.

Demand for drugs, including weight-loss injections, is sending people to dangerous places to get their medicine. But spotting dodgy marketplaces is not easy.