Biden Signs Law Helping ‘Havana Syndrome’ Victims
President Joe Biden on Friday signed legislation that will provide financial support to U.S. government employees believed to be ...
Health
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Impact of Forest Thinning on Wildfires Creates Dissent
Firefighters and numerous studies credit intensive forest thinning projects with helping save communities like those recently ...
New Ebola Case Confirmed in Eastern DR Congo
A case of Ebola has been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to an internal report on Friday from ...
Russian Movie Crew Makes History in Space
A Russian film crew blasts into space on a moviemaking history mission, an American actor known for playing a space explorer gets ...
US Effort to Stop Malaria Lauds Vaccine, Rolls Out 5-Year Plan
The announcement of the first-ever malaria vaccine not only inspires hope in the battle against one of the planet’s most ...
WHO Launches Strategy to Vaccinate 40% of World Against Covid by End of 2021
The U.N. secretary-general and the head of the World Health Organization launched an ambitious strategy Thursday to have 40% of ...
German Health Minister Says Vaccinations Further Along Than Thought
German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Thursday the nation has vaccinated millions more people than previously thought, thanks to ...
Kenya Researchers Confident Population Will Embrace Malaria Vaccine
More than 260,000 African children under the age of five die from malaria each year, including more than 10,000 in Kenya, ...
Americans Being Warned of Deadly Fake Medication
Americans are being warned to beware of potentially deadly fake prescription pills that are laced with the powerful opioid ...
WHO Backs Malaria Vaccinations for African Children
The World Health Organization recommended Wednesday that children in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions on the continent with ...
German, American Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Wednesday awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to two scientists for their work ...
Russian Soyuz Spacecraft with Actor, Director Arrives at ISS
The crew of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft was welcomed aboard the International Space Station Tuesday, though a communications ...
Three Share Nobel Prize for Physics for Work on Climate Change
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Tuesday announced the Nobel prize in physics goes to three scientists for their work in ...
Australian Researchers Tout Dengue Fever Mosquito Breakthrough
Researchers in Australia have shown a bacteria can sterilize and eradicate a disease-carrying mosquito that is responsible for ...
Study: Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine 90% Effective Against Hospitalization for Up to Six Months
A new study reveals the two-dose COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is 90% effective at keeping someone from being ...
Cleanup Continues of Massive California Oil Spill
Workers continue to clean up a massive oil spill off the coast of California as divers try to learn why an underwater pipeline ...
UNICEF: Pandemic Worsens Mental Health Disorders in Children
The U.N. Children’s Fund says children are likely to suffer most from the monthslong COVID-related restrictions, school ...
Biden Lifts Abortion Referral Ban on Family Planning Clinics
The Biden administration on Monday reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics, lifting a Trump-era ...
‘Captain Kirk’ Heading to Space
Actor William Shatner, best known for his portrayal of space explorer Captain James T. Kirk in the “Star Trek” television ...
Pope, Other Religious Leaders Issue Pre-COP26 Appeal on Climate Change
Pope Francis and other religious leaders made a joint appeal on Monday for next month’s U.N. Climate Change Conference ...
US Duo Win Nobel Medicine Prize for Heat and Touch Work
US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for ...
British Company Develops Saliva-Based COVID Test
A British company says it has developed an easy-to-administer, saliva-based test that can detect whether a person is infectious ...
WHO Chief: ‘No Country Can Vaccinate Its Way Out of This Pandemic in Isolation’
“The pandemic has destabilized societies, economies, and governments. It has shown that there is no global security without ...
European-Japanese Space Mission Gets First Glimpse of Mercury
A joint European-Japanese spacecraft got its first glimpse of Mercury as it swung by the solar system’s innermost planet ...