Health officials in Michigan have issued a warning to residents as they investigate three possible human cases of a deadly mosquito-borne illness.The disease, known as Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEE), causes brain inflammation, which can MORE
A federal judge blocked Missouri’s law banning abortions after eight weeks, one day before the law was to go into effect. In May, Missouri passed the “Missouri Stands for the Unborn,” act, another attempt states MORE
A new invasive species of tumbleweed that can grow up to six feet in height is taking over parts of California—and scientists are warning it could spread even further as climate change makes its growing MORE
Scientists have identified more than 4,000 confirmed planets outside of our solar system. Now research suggests that some of these exoplanets may actually be more hospitable to life than Earth itself. Because these planets are MORE
An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay over $572 million for pushing doctors to prescribe opioids while downplaying the risks of addiction, actions that state prosecutors said helped fuel the state’s opioid epidemic MORE
French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed to reporters that Trump did not attend today’s G-7 Summit’s session on climate, biodiversity, and oceans. MORE
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the government will purchase “a lot” of the drug esketamine, a derivative of ketamine. Though ketamine is known as a recreational hallucinogen, Trump asserted that a new nasal-spray MORE
This year alone, Brazil has suffered “72,843 fires with more than half in the Amazon region,’the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said. That’s more than an 80% increase compared with the same period last MORE
NEW YORK CITY – A new survey found that 45% of Americans claim to have worn the same pair of underwear for two days or longer. Underwear company Tommy John surveyed 1,000 men and women to MORE
BBC News reported today that plastic is showing up in more areas of the environment than ever expected: now it’s been found in Arctic air. A group of German and Swiss scientists studying environmental contamination MORE
A flight attendant on Israel’s national carrier who fell ill with measles on a plane she was working on five months ago, has died. MORE
Good news arrived today on two fronts in the vaccines-vs-disease war. An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo started a little over a year ago, and health-care workers continue to struggle with widespread MORE
The first consumer product to come from the Chernobyl exclusion zone could hit the shelves at some point in the near future. Scientists have distilled an artisan vodka called Atomik using rye and water from MORE