Fauci: US Must Study Data Before Deciding on Travel Ban Over New COVID Variant
Top U.S. infectious disease official Anthony Fauci said Friday that a ban on flights from southern Africa was a possibility and ...
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New COVID-19 Variant Detected in South Africa
South African scientists are scrambling to determine how quickly a newly discovered variant of the coronavirus can spread and if ...
Cases Soar but Swiss Reject Lockdown as COVID Law Vote Looms
Like many others in Europe, Switzerland is facing a steep rise in coronavirus cases. But its federal government, unlike others, ...
World Leaders Struggle to Raise Vaccination Rates as COVID-19 Surges
With the Northern Hemisphere heading into winter and COVID-19 cases on the rise across Europe and North America, political ...
When Aliens Attack: Australia’s Native Species Under Threat
A new report warns that Australia’s native wildlife is in the “grip of an unprecedented alien attack.” Experts at the ...
Volunteers Map Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in Vast Citizen Science Project
An expedition to find lost shipwrecks on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef begins Friday. The voyage is part of the Great Reef ...
European Nations Add Boosters, Plan Shots for Children Amid COVID Surge
European countries expanded COVID-19 booster vaccinations, began plans to get shots to young children and tightened some curbs ...
Attacking an Asteroid
NASA tests an asteroid-assaulting system to protect planet Earth. Plus, Japanese tourists ready for the trip of a lifetime, and a ...
USAID Says Wheat Seeds Sent to Northeast Syria Meet ‘High Standards’
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) says the wheat seeds it recently provided to farmers in northeast Syria ...
US Nurses Leaving Hospital Bedsides
“I could not understand how this highly educated, powerful trauma nurse is now the patient.” A registered nurse who asks that ...
NASA Launches Craft to Hit Asteroid
The U.S. space agency NASA has launched a spacecraft on a mission to test the ability to knock an asteroid off a potentially ...
Jury Holds Pharmacies Responsible for Role in Opioid Crisis
CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies recklessly distributed massive amounts of pain pills in two Ohio counties, a federal jury ...
NASA, ESA Delay Launch of New Space Telescope
The U.S. space agency, NASA, and its European counterpart, the European Space Agency (ESA), have delayed the long-awaited launch ...
NASA to Launch Test Mission of Asteroid-Deflecting Spacecraft
A SpaceX rocket was set to blast off from California late Tuesday as NASA seeks to demonstrate a first-of-its-kind planetary ...
Australian Team Probes Southern Ocean in Deep-Water Earthquake Research
A mission is underway to retrieve scientific data from the rugged ocean floor in the Southern Ocean, formerly known as the ...
Clean Beauty
Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system that disrupts communication between the brain and the body. ...
Fauci Urges Vaccinated Americans to Get Booster Shots
The top U.S. infectious disease expert on Sunday urged millions of Americans who already are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to ...
COVID-19 Wave Pushes Ukraine’s Doctors to the Limit
As coronavirus infections hit Ukraine, a single shift for Dr. Oleksandr Molchanov now stretches to 42 hours — 24 of them in ...
Dutch Riot Over COVID Restrictions a Second Night; 7 Arrested
Police arrested seven rioters in The Hague on Saturday night after youths set fires in the streets and threw fireworks at ...
Europe’s COVID Crisis Pits Vaccinated Against Unvaccinated
This was supposed to be the Christmas in Europe where family and friends could once again embrace holiday festivities and one ...
Baby’s Superpowered Scent Can Manipulate Parents’ Moods, Researchers Find
A chemical that babies give off from their heads calms men but makes women more aggressive, according to new research in the ...
US FDA Authorizes Pfizer, Moderna Boosters for All
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday expanded emergency use authorization for the booster shot of the PFizer and ...
In Photos: Partial Lunar Eclipse Visible From North America to Parts of Asia
A partial lunar eclipse could be seen from the Americas and East Asia on Friday. The phenomenon, when the Earth partially aligns ...
After Pledging to Lead on Climate Issues, US Sells New Oil Drilling Rights
In a move that has some environmental activists charging it with hypocrisy, the Biden administration has approved the sale of oil ...