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Spontaneous gas explosions appear to be increasing in northern Russia because of climate change and some specific local conditions.

Committee members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics, are likely to recommend restricting the use of the shots at birth or delaying them until later in childhood.

They claim Trump's executive orders are unconstitutional. The government says their lawsuit should be thrown out. The two sides are set to clash this week in Montana.

Researchers discovered that Mediterranean ants are having babies that belong to a different species.

The provision in the government funding bill could shield pesticide companies from billions of dollars in lawsuits.

The parasitic infection schistosomiasis affects an estimated 200 million people globally, many of them children. But campaigns to identify and treat it face formidable hurdles.

An archaeologist, he discovered and analyzed the residue of beverages imbibed by long-vanished civilizations and then figured out how to recreate them.

His expeditions, including many to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, yielded rare discoveries and led to exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History.

Governments around the world are enacting measures to try to protect workers from the dangers of heat stress. They're barely keeping up with the risks.

Democrats are calling for the creation of a state equivalent of the National Institutes of Health, but first state lawmakers and then voters would need to approve it.