“Unidentified aerial phenomena are a potential national security threat, and they need to be treated that way,” the committee chairperson said.
The "gentle giant" at the heart of the Milky Way is a black hole 4 million times the mass of the sun.
“The pandemic has just poured fuel on the fire of the overdose epidemic,” one expert said.
College football teams with Black coaches average around five to seven more penalties per season than teams with white coaches, regardless of team or school quality.
Paxlovid pills are now widely offered at pharmacies through Biden's "test to treat" plan, as COVID cases are beginning to mount again in the US.
“We are the capital of pain.”
“I know everybody wants great news, that we can be done with COVID and everything’s gonna be fine, but that’s not really true.”
Two negotiators and a Russian oligarch mediating the talks suffered eye irritation and peeling skin on their faces, according to news reports.
“This is a really bad idea,” one public health expert said. “It just creates an opportunity for people to grandstand.”
“The role of oil and gas in the global economy is very deeply embedded, so any shift is going to take a long time,” one expert said.
Microwaves, power lines, cell phones — cancer scares connected to electromagnetic waves have a venerable history of freaking people out. Unless you are a male lab rat, you shouldn’t sweat the latest scare just yet.
Invasive surgeries and other shocking experiments were “commonplace” on slaves before the Civil War, according to a sweeping new survey of old medical journals.
Operation Reinhard, the deadliest Nazi murder campaign in the Holocaust, killed roughly 1.7 million Jews during World War II.
“It's crazy that this story is coming out from our leaders,” one expert said. “There is scant evidence for cannabis laced with fentanyl.”
Fentanyl now kills more people in the US than any other drug. It seems to have started with 14 overdoses in Rhode Island in 2013.
“We have shouted it out for years, but no one is really paying attention," one expert said.
Fentanyl is turning up in heroin and cocaine, but most users don’t want it. And dealers “can’t make a living by killing off their customers.”
"One interpretation is that epinephrine can save the heart, but is too little, too late for the brain," said one expert.
DNA researchers report a father failed a paternity test because the genes in his saliva differ from his sperm’s. One in eight people might possess such “chimeric” genes caused by a twin lost in the womb.
Deaths from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids killed more than 20,000 people in 2016, doubling the previous year's rate, CDC data show.
