This tweet seems to be getting a fair amount of attention this morning: The CDC recommendation in question is about who to prioritize first for the COVID-19 vaccine after frontline…

The odds are we never should have been born.Not one of us. Not one in 400 trillion to beexact. Only one among the 250 millionreleased in a flood of semen…

China is committed to taking action – as are several dozen other countries – but without the participation of all nations, a ‘catastrophic’ rise in global warming is inevitable  Sunday,…

Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began are finally coming to fruition. When biologist Tibor…

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My grandmother died of breast cancer at 70. My first cousin was recently diagnosed at 35. And another cousin also had breast cancer a few years ago. A…

Each evening, as dusk falls on Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood, 78-year-old Sonia Jaffe Robbins leaves her apartment where she has isolated since the coronavirus pandemic began in March. She joins…

Back in March, when the pall of the pandemic hung over the city, and long stretches of Broadway were as desolate as a dry creek bed, the New York Police…

Support for some state responses to pandemic reaches levels rarely seen in polling, researcher says Trust in government has soared to an “extraordinary” high during the pandemic, upending years of scepticism…

Blanka Goldman's land was sold to the Catholic Church by the Polish neighbor who saved her in WWII. After 10 years of legal battle and institutional resistance, Supreme Court rules…

Students in Saudi Arabia, like so many around the world, have traded in-person classrooms for logging onto an app during the COVID-19 pandemic. But they’re also experiencing other major shifts…