Climate scientists turn Mount Everest into a lab
Climate science started on mountaintops. John Tyndall was a mid-19th-century British scientist and devoted mountaineer who scaled several Continental peaks, making the first recorded trip up Switzerland's Weisshorn. He sketched ...
Trump plans to pardon former aide Michael Flynn, source says
U.S. President Donald Trump has told allies he plans to pardon his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during an investigation ...
‘We’re drowning’: COVID-19 cases flood hospitals in America’s heartland
After pounding big U.S. cities in the spring, the virus now has engulfed rural and small-town America, seeming to seep into the country’s every nook and cranny.
Evidence builds that an early mutation made the pandemic harder to stop
There is no evidence that a coronavirus with the mutation causes more severe symptoms, kills more people or complicates the development of vaccines.
Space oddity? Monolith in Utah desert mystifies helicopter crew
They were on a mission to count sheep when they found something they had not counted on. As a Utah helicopter crew buzzed over the southeastern part of the state looking for big horn sheep last week, sitting beneath them in the middle of the ...
Carbon pricing rises as world's weapon of choice in climate fight
Can you put a price on pollution? Some of the world's biggest economies are doing just that as they wrestle with how to make good on grand pledges to tame planet-warming emissions. Matters are coming to a head. China, Japan and South Korea have all followed ...
Biden transition gets formal start after Trump runs out of options
The federal government recognized U.S. President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election, formally starting the transition of power after President Donald Trump spent weeks testing the boundaries of American democracy.
Computers are getting ever better at generating realistic, entirely imaginary people. But the flaws are all ours.
Decades of work, and half a dose of fortune, drove Oxford vaccine success
The Oxford vaccinologists were exhilarated on Monday when drugmaker AstraZeneca, with whom they developed the shot, announced that it could be around 90% effective.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced a foreign policy and national security team crammed with veterans from the Barack Obama years, signaling an end to the upheaval under President Donald Trump and a return to traditional diplomacy. At the top of the list was ...
AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine shown to be effective and cheaper
The vaccine's efficacy was 90% in trials where the drug was given as a half-dose followed by a full dose a month later.
G20 vows fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to all nations
At the virtual summit, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga emphasized the importance of guaranteeing universal access by supplying treatment drugs and vaccines for COVID-19.
