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Scientists do not yet know how well the vaccine and the drug used to treat the infection are working. Two new trials will provide answers.

Small studies suggest that breast removal surgery improves transgender teenagers’ well-being, but data is sparse. Some state leaders oppose such procedures for minors.

The DART mission has been flying to its target since launching last year. On Monday night, it will connect.

The agency is creating an office of environmental justice to address the disproportionate harm that climate change has caused in low-income areas and communities of color.

Bon Secours Mercy Health, a major nonprofit health system, used the poverty of Richmond Community Hospital’s patients to tap into a lucrative federal drug program.

In the blizzard of paperwork needed to get into a nursing home or assisted living, some residents unwittingly surrender the right to a day in court.

It is driven by a decline in child immunization during the pandemic and the influence of an anti-vaccination evangelical church.

Data from a fertility center showed many women did not get pregnant because of the age at which they froze their eggs and because they did not preserve enough of them.

In a country where wildlife trafficking already runs rampant, conservationists fear that ransoming of animals may become a common tactic used by criminals.

Four whales have died near San Francisco this year after ships crashed into them, and scientists hope to drive that number to zero with new technology.

Wildlife management strategies focused on aggressive raccoons may be inadvertently boosting the proportion of more clever ones in cities.

His 1963 breakthrough revealed one of the furthest objects from Earth and opened new questions about the evolution of the universe.

There are 20 quadrillion ants worldwide, according to a new census, or 2.5 million for every living human. There are probably even more than that.

Omicron, the 13th named variant of the coronavirus, seems to have a remarkable capacity to evolve new tricks.

New images from the space-based observatory offer a novel view of the planet in infrared.

Seeking to demonstrate the safety of long space missions, he worked out on his trip and returned 437 days later looking “like he could wrestle a bear,” one astronaut said.

In a bipartisan vote, lawmakers voted to join an international agreement to phase out the hydrofluorocarbons commonly found in refrigerators and air-conditioners.

The accessibility features Apple and Google include in their mobile software can help people of all abilities get more from their devices.

Closer examination of Typhloesus fossils suggests that the organism, which swam 330 million years ago, was similar to modern sea slugs.

Major data gaps, the result of decades of underinvestment in public health, have undercut the government response to the coronavirus and now to monkeypox.