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The relatively small number of arrests after a mob stormed the Capitol left many environmental activists shaken on Thursday - and wanted answers. Why did so many people who wreaked havoc on the homeland of American democracy just walk away…

They are also the most versatile and unpredictable of the Panthera crew, at the same time stealthy and bold, antisocial and affiliated. "They have a certain attitude towards them," said Alan M. Wilson of the Royal Veterinary College, who…

Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Friday that their Covid vaccine is effective against one of the mutations in the new contagious variants in the UK and South Africa.Independent experts said the results were good news, but warned that each…

Most of the symptoms in the Wuhan report were slightly more common in women. 81 percent reported at least one health problem, compared with 73 percent for men.Reports of other respiratory illnesses like the 2003 outbreak of SARS, another…

Last year, 2016 was the hottest year on record, European climate researchers announced on Friday as global temperatures continued their unstoppable rise caused by the emission of heat-storing greenhouse gases.The record warmth that…

When British zoologist George Shaw first came across a platypus in 1799, he was so confused that he looked for stings and thought someone might try to outsmart him with a Frankish creature. It's hard to blame him: what other animal has a…

Reports of a highly contagious new variant in the United States released on Friday by several news outlets are based on speculative statements by Dr. Deborah Birx and are inaccurate according to several government officials.The flawed…

Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith grew up in the United States Virgin Islands and saw firsthand what can happen in a community with limited access to health care. Her father, Moleto "Bishop" Smith Sr., was only in his forties when he suffered a…

In a lush, past landscape, a hungry triceratops eats low-lying ferns and cone-shaped cycad plants to power its 10-ton frame. The animal swallows huge bites of roughage, seeds and everything before sauntering off in search of new feeding…

The versions of the coronavirus that all seven carried were genetically virtually identical - strongly suggesting that one person among them initiated the outbreak. This person, who the report calls Passenger A, actually had a negative…