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A new study notes that prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine surged nearly 2000 percent in March the week that President Trump first touted it as a potential treatment for the disease known as COVID-19.

A heatwave in Siberia is sparking concerns about “zombie” wildfires that have been smoldering since last year.

Scientists have confirmed the existence of the exoplanet Proxima b, a planet just 4.2 light-years from Earth. Given how close it is to its star, Proxima Centauri, it could have liquid water, and "therefore, harbor life."

After originally believing the "continuously active" object in Jupiter's orbit was the first-known "Trojan asteroid" like it, scientists have issued a correction and it's just a regular comet. 

SpaceX and NASA are making preparations for their second attempt at a historic launch that will see astronauts travel to space from U.S. soil for the first time since 2011.

Experts in the U.K. have reconstructed the face of a priest who died 900 years ago.

The center of the Milky Way is a puzzle of invisible, interconnected blobs. There are swooping tendrils of energy visible only in radio wavelengths, hourglass-shaped scars of X-ray light and — towering over it all — the mysterious Fermi Bubbles.

A new study from scientists at Yale University have found where stress lives in the brain.

Bald eagle numbers in Massachusetts have soared so far in 2020, according to state wildlife officials.

Sea snakes have been evolving for 15 million years to adapt to changing conditions in the marine environment, including their vision underwater, a new study showed.

Stroke patients are arriving to hospitals and treatment centers an average of more than two hours later than they should amid the coronavirus pandemic, new research reveals, imperiling their chance of survival.

A fox was spotted on camera watching two badgers go at it near Bristol, England, British news agency SWNS reports.

A stunning Roman mosaic has been uncovered beneath a vineyard in Northern Italy.

A storm has revealed a 120-year-old shipwreck in Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

A 6-year-old boy in Israel has discovered a 3,500-year-old clay tablet depicting an ancient captive and his captor.

A newly published study suggests that bats have indeed been the originator of SARS-CoV-2, after researchers found a novel coronavirus in the flying mammals that is “the closest relative of SARS-CoV-2 reported to date.”

A new study has revealed that more than 80 percent of passengers and crew members on a cruise ship that contracted COVID-19 were asymptomatic.

Giant viruses, which measure about 10 times the size of a typical cold virus, infiltrate cells and inject their DNA through a special portal known as a "stargate." Now, detailed new images have revealed what conditions prompt this stargate to open and drive the viruses to infect. 

A family vacationing in South Florida last year came across an unlikely sight: a live gator on top of a gator pool float at their Airbnb.

Some dinosaurs that were facing a resource-scarce environment in present-day Colorado resorted to scavenging and possibly cannibalism, a new study showed.