The benefits of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine outweigh its risks for emergency use in those 16 and older in the United States, a panel of vaccine…
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Tasmanian devils were supposed to be extinct by now. With a deadly, highly contagious face cancer tearing through devil populations, forecasts over the past decade…
Ticks may have reason to be as wary of us as we are of them. Bacteria that are potentially deadly to the bloodsuckers live on…
As the coronavirus pandemic picked up speed this year, some people’s jobs became a nonstop race to help save lives. Here, an emergency medicine doctor,…
Any science journalist would rejoice at the revelation of aliens on Earth. It would be the story of a lifetime. So it’s not surprising that…
Fifteen years of grading warming’s impact on the Arctic has made one thing abundantly clear: Climate change has drastically altered the Arctic in that short…
Two giant, mysterious bubbles spew from the Milky Way’s heart, and now it appears the bubbles may have doubles. Scientists have known for a decade…
More than 68 million infected with the novel coronavirus and more than 1.5 million dead. 2020 has been a year defined by global sickness and…
During a parched summer almost 2,000 years ago, people living in what is now western New Mexico crawled into the cold, dark belly of a…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has now given emergency use authorization to both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, and people around the country…