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On Sunday evening, Pope Francis underwent surgery for a colon condition called “symptomatic stenotic diverticulitis.” The elective surgery, performed at the Gemelli hospital in Rome, lasted about three hours, according to a statement by the…

In the 1970s, hunters came across eight 500-year-old bodies preserved by the arctic climate near Qilakitsoq, an abandoned Inuit settlement in northwest Greenland. When scientists later photographed the mummies with infrared film, they made…

Likewise, the researchers weren't the first to learn that Maori travelers might have reached Antarctica so long ago; the feat was well known in certain communities, such as near Bluff, New Zealand's southernmost town, said Dr. Watene.…

When it came to the coronavirus vaccination, the stimulus was the third time for Esther Jones, a dialysis nurse in rural Oregon. After two doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine failed her immune system to produce antibodies, she sought out…

Johnson & Johnson said its Covid vaccine is effective against the highly contagious Delta variant, which complements the growing body of evidence that the most widely used Covid vaccines offer protection against its most dangerous…

K.C. Burns’s favorite research days are the ones where he puts on his backpack and walks into the wilderness with no agenda. On one hike on Australia’s Lord Howe Island, he came across a cluster of staghorn ferns. They are common potted…

Dr. Barbara Murphy, a leading nephrologist specializing in advanced research focused on predicting and diagnosing kidney transplant results, died Wednesday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, where she had worked since 1997. She was 56…

The chairman of a House subcommittee is calling for executives from Exxon Mobil Corp., Shell, Chevron, and other major oil and gas companies to testify before Congress about the industry's decades of efforts to conduct disinformation…

Dinosaurs, which ruled the planet for roughly 170 million years and were one of the most successful animals ever, may have been in a 10-million-year decline at the time of their apocalypse, according to research published this week.A study…

"There are so much toxic policies around Covid that they limit reasonable action," he said. "Of course it makes sense in different settings to ask for proof of vaccination, but that has become a political lightning rod."Dr. Frieden and…