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The COVID pandemic has caused an unprecedented increase in mortality worldwide, leading to a decrease in life expectancy. A study last year found that 2020 saw a significant drop in life expectancy - by more than two years in the US and by one year in England and Wales.

A hillside dwelling overlooking the picturesque Rhone Valley in southern France proved irresistible for our ancestors, attracting both Neanderthals and modern humans long before the latter were thought to have reached that part of Europe, a new study suggests.

A few years ago, a Sydney scientist noticed a sulfur-crested cockatoo opening his trash bin. Not every resident would be thrilled, but ornithologist Richard Major was impressed by the ingenuity.

It's quite a feat for a bird to grasp a bin lid with its beak, pry it open, then shuffle far enough along the bin's edge that the lid falls backward, revealing edible trash treasures inside.

Experts and citizens are voicing concern that the addresses of minority ethnic Albanians in Serbia are being made quietly inactive by the Serbian authorities, without the subjects being informed.

The life expectancy of Greeks is being shortened by up to two years due to high atmospheric pollution levels, according to the findings of new international research presented at a two-day conference that concluded on Crete on Tuesday.

Authorities on Crete have attributed the death of a 59-year-old American scientist whose body was found in an abandoned WWII bunker on Monday night to foul play, though tests are expected to shed more light on its actual cause.

Suzanne Eaton's body was found inside a cave near the settlement of Xamoudochori, in Hania, nearly a week after she was last seen by friends on July 2.

An international team of researchers headed by Germany's Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, with Greek archaeogenticist Maria A. Spyrou, has decoded two 3,800-year-old genomes that suggest a Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague.

Be they cars, telephones of computers, German inventions have been at the forefront of technological developments are still showing the way to the future. In cooperation with the Fraunhofer and Max Planck institutes, the Goethe Institute in Athens is hosting a show on past and future breakthroughs in seven fields, including medicine, communications and energy.