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Botswana is investigating a growing number of unexplained deaths of elephants, having confirmed 275 had died, up from 154 two
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Panic attacks, trouble breathing, relapses that have sent her to bed for 14 hours at a time: At 35, Marissa Oliver has been
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The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources to confront the worst health crisis in a
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NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken were once again outside the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday on the
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Don’t panic, but there is another virus out there that could cause a pandemic. This one is an influenza strain
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A new study published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests weightlifting affects a person’s brain weeks before
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Scientists in China have identified a new strain of a flu virus in pigs that has the potential to infect humans and lead to a new
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Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a
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The Trump administration says it has locked down nearly the entire supply of one of the only available anti-COVID-19 drugs from
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed abortion-rights advocates a victory, striking down a restrictive abortion law in
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The maker of a drug shown to shorten recovery time for severely ill COVID-19 patients says it will charge $2,340 for a typical
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—People on six continents already are getting jabs in the arm as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine enters a defining summer,
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As the world waits for a COVID-19 vaccine, scientists are testing whether shots already in use for other diseases might provide
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A spacewalking astronaut on Friday added a small mirror to the millions of pieces of junk orbiting the Earth, as he lost the
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The U.N.’s weather agency, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), says it has verified two “megaflashes”
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In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable
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The U.S. space agency NASA and its European and Japanese counterparts (ESA, JAXA) announced Thursday the launching of the
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is known historically as an important nuclear research center.
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Hannah Gjerde starts her day at her hot-mat yoga class on the front lawn of her parent’s home, right before settling
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A massive cloud of Saharan dust darkened much of Cuba on Wednesday and began to affect air quality in Florida, sparking warnings
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Germany is banning the sale of single-use plastic straws, cotton buds and food containers, bringing it in line with a European
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The Trump administration’s recent decision to roll back civil rights protections for transgender people in health care has
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Tuesday it is seeking to investigate record high temperatures reported from
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Honeybees are coming back after record losses in 2019, a survey of U.S. beekeepers says. The Bee Informed
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