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Today, Mars is a wasteland. It’s a dusty desert, rough and pockmarked with craters. There’s no apparent life on its surface. But over the past decades, scientists have found evidence of a lost Mars, one that looked a lot more…

Amid a flu season that started earlier than expected there’s also been a higher number of strep A cases in children this year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory warning last month about the increase to…

Almost two years into the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, several states are still struggling to immunize their residents. Among the 10 states with the lowest vaccination rates, as of Wednesday, none have cracked the 60% mark of being fully vaccinated, according…

The New York City nurses’ strike finally ended after the hospitals and the employees reached a tentative agreement early Thursday morning. More than 7,000 nurses at Montefiore Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital — two of the city’s largest hospitals —…

After weeks of rising cases, the monkeypox outbreak appears to be significantly slowing down in the United States. As of Sept. 21, the latest date for which data is available, the seven-day case average was 197, according to the Centers…

Heavy blankets of smoke billowing over the U.S. from the wildfires burning in Canada are threatening the health of millions of people — even non-vulnerable populations with no preexisting conditions. But what about the smoke makes it so hazardous for…

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – An experimental satellite created in just nine months and recently launched into orbit promises to open outer space to cloud networking and advanced communications using artificial intelligence, Lockheed Martin said in a press release on Thursday. “Early…

The amount of time women will have to travel to receive an abortion has quadrupled from about half an hour to nearly two hours since the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade this summer, a new study finds. The decision…

The number of new cases of babesiosis, a tick-borne illness, increased significantly between 2011 and 2019 in the United States, a new CDC report found. It’s also spreading consistently in three new states — now, the disease is endemic in…

Years after it was first proven to work, a new tool for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is on the brink of entering mainstream medicine. That tool is doxyPEP, an antibiotic that works like a morning-after pill — but instead…