Canberra now allows people to get recreational drugs tested to see what substances they really contain. In addition to discovering adulterants, they may find there is none of the drug they thought they had bought.

A quarter of the people who test a sample of drug product decide not to use the product after all.

46 countries have eradicated at least one "neglected tropical disease". Togo has now eradicated four of them.

There is a long way to go, and further progress depends on donations from rich countries.

Biden illustrates the default approach of "centrist" Democrats: when trying to help the poor in some way, take a small step so as not to be called "extreme".

A school in Nebraska abruptly eliminated its 54-year-old student newspaper based on objections to what the paper published about the rights of queer people.

Publishing a newspaper no longer requires the expensive and specialized equipment that it needed 54 years ago. The students can, and surely will, move it to the internet. I hope they will make sure people can read the newspaper without running any nonfree software, by not sending Javascript code to run in visitors' browsers.

Dangerous heat waves could be three times as frequent by the end of this century.

This will have enormous impacts on farming in tropical regions, as it is not safe to do strenuous work in such heat.