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Juul Labs has tentatively agreed to pay $438.5 million to settle an investigation by nearly three dozen states focused on the company's sales and marketing practices that they claim are helping the vaping crisis teenagers.The investigation…

In August, a few days before his 68th birthday, Leslie Scott, a rancher in Vivian, SD, went to the post office where he received bad news. The clerk told him his world record had been broken. That said, the hailstone Mr. Scott collected…

Ich raste mitten in der Nacht in einem New Yorker Krankenhaus in die Welt – eine überstürzte Geburt, wie die Ärzte es nannten.In meinen ersten Lebensstunden, nach sechs Atemaussetzern, brachten mich die Ärzte eilig auf die…

A technical hiccup prevented NASA's giant moon rocket, the Space Launch System, from leaving the launch pad on Monday. So NASA will try again on Saturday in hopes that their engineers have solved the problem. Here's what you need to know…

Kalifornien, mit einer Wirtschaft, die als fünftgrößte der Welt gilt, hat diese Woche seine bisher aggressivsten Anstrengungen unternommen, um dem Klimawandel entgegenzuwirken, nachdem der Gesetzgeber eine Reihe von Gesetzentwürfen…

The average life expectancy of Americans fell precipitously in 2020 and 2021, the sharpest two-year decline in nearly 100 years and a stark reminder of the toll exacted on the nation by the continuing coronavirus pandemic.In 2021, the…

The naked mole rat may not be much to look at, but it has much to say. The wrinkled, whiskered rodents, which live, like many ants do, in large, underground colonies, have an elaborate vocal repertoire. They whistle, trill and twitter;…

KINGSTON, Jamaica — As demand grows globally for metals needed to make batteries for electric vehicles, one of the richest untapped sources of the raw materials lies two and a half miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.This remote…

Before NASA can send astronauts back to the moon, it needs a successful test flight of the Space Launch System, a giant rocket built for the agency with lunar missions in mind. On Monday, we'll get to see the first attempt at launching this…

"We are going."That is the catch phrase that NASA is using in the lead-up to the debut flight of its new moon rocket, which could launch as early as Monday at 8:33 am Eastern time. It is a phrase repeated by agency officials, added as a…