A Russian cosmonaut who explored a mysterious hole in a capsule docked to the International Space Station says Russian law enforcement agencies are investigating what caused the opening. Sergei Prokopyev …
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In South Africa, HIV’s Patients Survive Disease But Are Weary of Its Toll
South Africa has the world’s largest antiretroviral therapy program with over 4 million people receiving treatment. But the ARV drug therapy, regarded by many as a panacea for HIV, is …
your ads here!Most Babies Born With Cleft Condition Could Die Without Surgery
One of the most common birth defects in the world is a cleft lip. It’s essentially a gap in the upper lip where the skin didn’t grow together. Babies with …
your ads here!Tons of Dead Fish Wash Up in Rio de Janeiro Lagoon
Residents of a high-end neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro woke up to the unpleasant smell of 13 tons of rotting dead fish floating in the city’s Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon. …
your ads here!Alba the Albino Orangutan Returned to Jungle in Indonesia
The world’s only known albino orangutan climbed trees, foraged for food and began building a nest after being released into a remote Borneo jungle more than a year after conservation …
your ads here!Experts Call for Inclusion of Pregnant Women in Vaccine Research
Pregnant women have been systematically overlooked in the development and deployment of new vaccines, undermining their health and their communities’ safety, according to guidelines released this month by an international …
your ads here!Report: Distributors, DEA Failed to Slow US Opioid Crisis
A congressional report on prescription pill dumping in West Virginia blames U.S. prescription drug distributors and the Drug Enforcement Administration for not doing enough to help mitigate the nation’s opioid …
your ads here!Vehicles, Guns Are Leading Causes of Death for US Youth
Motor vehicles and firearms kill young Americans more than any other cause, like disease, which has significantly declined, according to a new study. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that …
your ads here!9 US States Seek to Stop Trump Administration’s Atlantic Oil Testing
Attorneys general from nine U.S. states sued the Trump administration on Thursday to stop future seismic tests for oil and gas deposits off the East Coast, joining a lawsuit from environmentalists concerned that …
your ads here!Italians Find Evidence of Largest, Oldest Meat-Eating Dinosaur
Italian paleontologists say the largest and oldest meat-eating dinosaur ever to have been found was from what is now the northern area of Lombardy. In the scientific journal PerrJ, the Italians …
your ads here!Wildlife Bridge to Reduce Car Collisions with Animals
A bridge over a busy interstate highway — not for cars or pedestrians, but for wildlife — is under construction in Washington state. The aim is to keep the animals …
your ads here!FDA Panel Backs Prescribing Overdose Reversal Drug With Opioids
An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday narrowly recommended prescribing the opioid overdose reversal drug, naloxone, along with addictive painkillers. The panel voted 12-11 in …
your ads here!European Officials Agree on Ban of Some Single-use Plastics
Plastic knives just won’t cut it any longer, if the European Union has its way. The 28-nation bloc moved closer to banning single-use straws, plates, cutlery and cotton swabs, after …
your ads here!Nine In 10 Babies Born With A Cleft Condition Could Die Without Corrective Surgery
One of the most common birth defects in the world is a cleft lip. It’s essentially a gap in the upper lip where the skin didn’t grow together. Babies with …
your ads here!NASA’s 1st Flight to Moon, Apollo 8, Marks 50th Anniversary
Fifty years ago on Christmas Eve, a tumultuous year of assassinations, riots and war drew to a close in heroic and hopeful fashion with the three Apollo 8 astronauts reading …
your ads here!World-Famous T.Rex Sue Gets New Lair in Chicago
Sue, the largest, most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, gets to show off its new lair this week at the Field Museum in Chicago. The museum on Friday …
your ads here!SpaceX Halts US Satellite Launch for National Security Mission
Elon Musk’s SpaceX halted Tuesday’s launch of a long-delayed navigation satellite for the U.S. military, postponing for at least a day the space transportation company’s first designated national security mission …
your ads here!As US Life Expectancy Falls, West Virginia Offers Lessons
If you want to understand why U.S. life expectancy is declining, West Virginia is a good place to start. The state is a bellwether of bad health, portending major problems …
your ads here!US Surgeon General Warns of Teen Risks From e-Cigarettes
The government’s top doctor is taking aim at the best-selling electronic cigarette brand in the U.S., urging swift action to prevent Juul and similar vaping brands from addicting millions of …
your ads here!Wondrous Extinct Flying Reptiles Boasted Rudimentary Feathers
A microscopic examination of fossils from China has revealed that the fur-like body covering of pterosaurs, the remarkable flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs, was actually made up of rudimentary …
your ads here!Scientists Spot Solar System’s Farthest Known Object
Astronomers have spotted the farthest known object in our solar system — and they’ve nicknamed the pink cosmic body “Farout.” The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the …
your ads here!EU Agrees to Deal to Cut Greenhouse Emissions from Cars
The European Union agreed Monday to a goal of cutting carbon emissions from cars by 37.5 percent in a decade, finally settling differences between vehicle-producing countries and environmentally-conscious lawmakers. The …
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