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Chuck Yeager, the most famous test pilot of his generation, who was the first to break the sound barrier and, thanks to Tom Wolfe, embodied the death-defying aviator who had the elusive but unmistakable “right stuff”, died on Monday in Los…

Assessing the potential impact on polar bears had been a stumbling block in approving a seismic survey in the refuge. An earlier proposal from 2018 was ultimately put on hold as an environmental review and work was done to determine the…

Last month was the hottest November in history, European researchers said Monday as the relentlessly warming climate proved too much for even the possible effects of cooler ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific.Scientists from the…

At first it was toilet paper. Then it was meat.Now it's antacids.People who search for over-the-counter belly pacifiers online or in stores are finding that parts of the country cannot simply buy antacids like tums, pepcid, and the generic…

The Arctic continued its unwavering shift towards a new climate in 2020 as the effects of near-record warming increased in the region, ice and snow cover shrank and extreme forest fires, scientists said in an annual assessment of the region…

The universe is a shadow too light.This could be the last news you expected towards the end of a dark year. But that's exactly what a group of astronomers discovered using cameras from the New Horizons spacecraft, which once visited Pluto,…

LONDON - The first rigorously tested coronavirus vaccine was given the green light for use in the UK on Wednesday. The vaccine doses of the American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and a small German company, BioNTech, will be injected from…