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An international team has analysed data from more than 160,000 people in 40 different countries, including Spain, to study differences in the speed of ageing between regions and the factors responsible. According to the results, European countries show healthier ageing, while low-income countries are associated with accelerated ageing. Protective factors include physical factors such as air quality; social factors such as socioeconomic and gender equality; and sociopolitical factors such as freedom of political parties and democratic elections. The study is published in the journal Nature Medicine.

The brain can become habituated to the deterioration of democracy, warn a neuroscientist and a law expert in an editorial published in Science Advances. "When democratic norms are violated repeatedly, people begin to adapt,’ they explain, calling for a "dishabituation" to democratic decline. This requires "see[ing] things not in light of the deterioration of recent years, but in light of our best historical practices, our largest ideals, and our highest aspirations.

US President Donald Trump has announced that all goods imported into the United States will be subject to a 10 % tariff. In the case of goods from the European Union, this will increase to 20 %, according to the executive order signed by Trump, which will affect the EU's science and health industry. This tariff will be even higher with other trading partners. The measure will not affect pharmaceuticals for the time being.

As announced, the new US president, Donald Trump, has signed on his first day in office an executive order for the United States to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. This is the second time Trump has withdrawn his country from the signatory states of the most important climate change agreement, as he did in 2020.

The new US president, Donald Trump, announced on his first day that the country will leave the World Health Organisation (WHO) within the next twelve months. The reasons behind the decision, according to him, are the ‘mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic and other global health crises’, as well as ‘disproportionate payments compared to other countries’ dues’.

For the second time, Donald Trump has won yesterday's US presidential election. The Republican leader returns to the White House four years later, after a first term in office with climate policies that ran counter to scientific evidence. Among other controversial measures, he abandoned the Paris Agreement and repeatedly denied the existence of climate change.