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New information released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows future prioritization for a potential coronavirus vaccine could be fraught with peril.

Heat waves are increasing in intensity and frequency in most parts of the world since the 1950s, a new study has found.

Even the sickest COVID-19 patients produce T cells to battle the virus, a new study reveals.

The last known members of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland were thought to have died out 200 years ago. But genes from these people have been found in a man living in Tennessee today, researchers reported.

Archaeologists in Spain are continuing their hunt for the bones of “Red Hugh,” a 16th-century Irish chieftain who is said to be buried in the city of Valladolid.

Hundreds of elephants have mysteriously dropped dead in Botswana, leaving wildlife experts and government officials searching for answers.

A new study noted that global warming linked to human activity has wiped out the previous 6,500 years of natural global cooling.

Skywatchers are in for a treat on July 4 when the buck moon, or July full moon, rises in the sky. There will also be a partial lunar eclipse.

Remarkable photos show a group of cows walking along a nature reserve, including one looking to get a free meal.

In 2019, scientists witnessed a massive star 2.5 million times brighter than the sun disappear without a trace.

Officials are working to quiet the noise

New York City may test the vast amount of sewage its residents produce for coronavirus in an effort to better understand the pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic, which is surging in many parts of the South and West, claimed at least 122,000 more lives in the U.S. than would be expected in a normal year, for an increase of 18 percent, a new study has found.

A NASA satellite image shows that areas burned by the Bighorn fire north of Tucson, Ariz.

Four new species of single-cell organisms have been discovered in the depths of the Pacific.

A photographer in England captured remarkable photos of an otter swallowing a rare scorpionfish whole, British news agency SWNS reports.

NASA has released a stunning 61-minute time-lapse video that shows a decade in the life of the sun.

Nearly three weeks after it delayed the launch of its next Mars rover, NASA has pushed it back again, citing "launch vehicle processing delays."

Whale sharks, the largest non-mammal vertebrate in the world, have small teeth covering their eyeballs, researchers in Japan have discovered.

On Halloween in 2018, the sky tore open above Brazil. A single gargantuan lightning bolt sliced through the atmosphere over the country's southern tip, stretching more than 440 miles (700 kilometers) from the Atlantic coast into the edge of Argentina.