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Intense research into the new coronavirus variant first identified in southern Africa has just begun. World leaders have urged people not to panic — and to get vaccinated, if they can.

He helped identify numerous viruses, including Covid-19, as well as the bioterrorism attack that spread anthrax in 2001.

Scientists in a cutting-edge laboratory do part of the work. Local health workers on foot do the rest.

Scientists were surprised to discover that at least one bat species carries its young to an unsupervised drop-off point night after night.

A new mathematical analysis strengthens concerns about the effects of the new variant on the pandemic’s course.

The $1 trillion infrastructure law funds programs that tend to favor wealthy, white communities — a test for Biden’s pledge to defend the most vulnerable against climate change.

A Long Island couple say fighting climate change and protecting biodiversity starts at home. Or rather, right outside their suburban house.

Astronomers call it a “super-Mercury” and think it holds clues to how planets form close in to their stars.

Genomic surveillance has improved enormously in recent months, but the system has built-in delays, and blind spots remain.

Audio recordings in Arctic seas show orcas in waters that were once blocked by ice, and the effects are being felt up and down the food chain.

In a comparison of seven different brands, researchers found that most shots give a strong boost, even in mix-and-match combinations.

Many public health experts were opposed to a boosters-for-all approach. The new variant is changing some minds.

New research published in the journal Nature suggests that the prints, discovered in Tanzania in 1976, were left by an unidentified hominin, or early human ancestor, more than 3.6 million years ago.

Low rainfall has caused a humanitarian crisis in Madagascar, but common assumptions about drought didn’t hold up to scrutiny.

Rising Covid cases have spurred a return to mask-wearing in the U.S. and overseas, at a time when flawed KN95s from China continue to dominate e-commerce sites.

Vaccines are finally available in many African countries, but an underfunded public health system has slowed their delivery, and some people there, as well as in South Asia, are wary of taking them.

While ankylosaurs are already known for their armor and club tails, this specimen from South America had a unique way of fighting predators.

An international survey found that the pandemic had enhanced public faith in researchers and science, up from 2018.

Scientists suggest the largest eagle that ever existed hunted down its 500-pound prey and then stuck its head inside to gorge on organs.

With evidence growing that a worrisome new coronavirus variant is highly contagious, health officials issued warnings that vulnerable people should not travel.