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There’s a global race to reduce the amount of harmful gases in our atmosphere to slow down the pace of climate change, and one way to do that is through carbon capture and sequestration — sucking carbon out of the air and burying it. At this point, however, we’re capturing only a fraction of the […]

The necklace, nametag, earrings or uniform you chose to put on this morning might say more than you realize about your social status, job or some other aspect of your identity. Anthropologists say humans have been doing this — finding ways to communicate about themselves without the fuss of conversation — for millennia. But shell […]

Travelers and authorities from India and many African countries are furious — and confused — about Britain’s new COVID-19 travel rules, calling them discriminatory By CARA ANNA, DANICA KIRKA and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press September 22, 2021, 7:30 PM • 4 min read NAIROBI, Kenya — Travelers and authorities from India and some African countries […]

Based on a survey conducted early last summer, researchers say that social distancing and other future COVID-19 mitigation efforts should consider people’s need for sunlight, which is a major contributor to health. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo Sept. 22 (UPI) — Roughly half of adults worldwide experienced declines in quality of life […]

Use of methamphetamine continues to rise in the United States, leading to an increase in overdose deaths, according to a new analysis. File Photo by Kaesler Media/Shutterstock Sept. 22 (UPI) — Drug overdose deaths linked to illegal stimulants other than cocaine — mostly methamphetamine — nearly tripled between 2015 and 2019, an analysis published Wednesday […]

President Joe Biden says the U.S. is doubling its purchase of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press September 22, 2021, 7:20 PM • 7 min read President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the United States is doubling its purchase of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world […]

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to rule soon on Pfizer’s bid for extra doses, after its advisers last week dramatically scaled back the Biden administrations plans for boosters for everyone By The Associated Press September 22, 2021, 3:32 PM • 12 min read WASHINGTON — Influential government advisers are debating which Americans should […]

The World Health Organization says the number of new COVID-19 cases continued to fall last week, with 3.6 million new cases reported globally, down from 4 million new infections the previous week By The Associated Press September 22, 2021, 10:50 AM • 9 min read The number of new COVID-19 cases continued to fall last […]

President Joe Biden is set to announce that the U.S. is doubling, to 1 billion doses, its purchase of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press September 22, 2021, 10:06 AM • 5 min read President Joe Biden is set to announce that the United States is doubling its […]

image source, Getty Imagesimage captionThe Army helped drive ambulances for the Welsh trust during the winter Covid wave Welsh ambulance crews are spending whole shifts waiting to off-load patients, according to a front-line worker. With the service under increased pressure from the latest Covid wave, Paul Amphlett, a medical technician, said morale was at “rock-bottom”. […]

Racism, the climate crisis and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at the U_N_ meeting of world leaders, a day after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a grim warning that “we are on the edge of an abyss.” By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press September 22, 2021, 7:30 AM • 6 min read UNITED […]

Hawaii officials are facing pressure to increase COVID-19 testing for travelers By CALEB JONES Associated Press September 21, 2021, 10:55 PM • 6 min read HONOLULU — Hawaii officials are facing pressure to increase COVID-19 testing for travelers as the islands deal with a record surge of new infections, hospitalization and deaths. The calls come […]

Plastic pollution clogs river systems for considerably longer than previously thought, new research from the University of Leicester shows. Macroplastics — or plastic litter more than 5mm in size — travel much slower through river systems than previously believed, at an average speed of less than 0.01 km per hour, and can remain in place […]

At more than 2 meters long, the human DNA molecule uses intricate folding patterns to fit into cells while locally unfolding to express genes. Such phenomena, however, are difficult to measure in experiments, and theoretical frameworks explaining them continue to be at odds with one another. Researchers in Italy, Japan, and Poland seek to point […]