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Spacewalking astronauts tackle stubborn struts to prime space station for new solar arrays
Two astronauts finally wrapped up tricky solar array strut installations outside the Internationa...
Fact Check: Do Overweight People Account For Most COVID-19 Deaths?
More than a year into the pandemic, the health care and science communities have identified a num...
This deep-sea shark is one of the world’s largest glowing animals
Shark researchers working off the eastern coast of New Zealand have made an illuminating discover...
Boeing’s 2nd Starliner space taxi test flight for NASA delayed again
Boeing’s second uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft for NASA will not launch on Ap...
A swarm of earthquakes shakes Iceland. Are volcanic eruptions next?
For the past 800 years, the picturesque Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland’s southwestern corner ha...
Scientist Discovers Tiny Fish the Size of a Pill, Names It After the Pandemic
Scientists have discovered a tiny new species of fish the size of an Aspirin pill—and they name...
60 Minutes Rewind: Neil Armstrong on visiting the Moon
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon. As famous as he w...
NASA’s steely-eyed missile women
The first woman to run the Marshall Space Flight Center says women at NASA have come a long way. ...
California Advises Double Masking as Texas, Mississippi Ditch Mandates
As a handful of U.S. states ditch mask mandates amid the ongoing COVID pandemic, health officials...
Astronauts Kate Rubins and Soichi Noguchi conduct fourth career spacewalk
The fourth spacewalk of 2021 is also the fourth spacewalk of two astronauts’ careers as they ve...
COVID battle lines harden ahead of Senate vote: The Note
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Climate Point: Space hurricanes, deadly flea collars and potential life on Mars
Welcome to Climate Point, your weekly guide to climate, energy and environment news from around t...
Biden lauds NASA team for giving US ‘dose of confidence’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday congratulated the NASA team responsible for l...
Tsunami warnings lifted as threat from monster quakes subsides
Tsunami warnings were lifted across several South Pacific islands Friday allowing tens of thousan...
Testing for Covid-19 is still important, but the numbers are dropping
Covid-19 testing numbers are dropping in the US. And that’s bad news.
Large quakes spark Pacific-wide tsunami alerts
Tsunami sirens rang out in coastal communities across the South Pacific Friday, as a cluster of p...
Jupiter-Mercury conjunction will shine bright in the sky this weekend
The solar system’s largest and smallest planets will be in alignment this Friday.
Fauci calls loosening Covid-19 restrictions inexplicable as variants threaten another surge
While tens of thousands of Americans are infected with the coronavirus each day and more research...
A universal flu vaccine? Study suggests protection against multiple strains, perhaps for years, may be possible
Every year the flu kills thousands of people and sickens millions more who didn’t get a flu sho...
Climate Change Is Killing Butterflies in the American West
Butterflies play essential role in pollinating wild plants and crops. Which makes a new study pub...
Which states have dropped mask mandates and why
Five states — Texas, Mississippi, Iowa, Montana and North Dakota — have ended, or soon will e...
Alabama extends mask order until April 9, eases some restrictions
Alabama’s governor said Thursday she is extending the state’s mask mandate until April 9.
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Covid-19’s obesity link, ‘neanderthal thinking,’ and skipping the line. What you need to know about Covid-19 this Thursday.
Countries where more than half the population is overweight, such as the US and the UK, have reco...
New Google COVID-19 database could hold key to disease’s mysteries
A year into the pandemic, COVID-19 still puzzles researchers, but the public release of a new dat...
Three vaccines. Increased manufacturing. How US will have enough COVID-19 vaccine for every US adult in May – or even sooner.
As vaccine experts welcomed President Joe Biden’s accelerated timeline for distribution, they o...
Brazil’s coronavirus variant is a warning to the world, scientists say
This Wednesday (3), Brazil announced an important deal with Pfizer to purchase 90 million doses o...
What brains could teach scientists about the lasting effects of Covid-19
Dr. Avindra Nath spends his days surrounded by brains.
The science is there — COVID-19 vaccines development did not cut corners
Today’s doctors and nurses have access to medical tools, therapies, and cures that I could only...