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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory this month saying the youth mental health crisis is getting worse.

The Pfizer treatment could help keep people infected with the coronavirus from getting so sick that they need to be hospitalized.

The James Webb Space Telescope has been in the works for decades, and its gold-plated, 21-foot mirror will see much farther out into space than the venerable Hubble Space Telescope.

As many people traveled for the holidays, health officials and state leaders issued serious warnings about the coronavirus as the U.S. experienced record new infections.

For months, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has been watering down the climate provisions in the Build Back Better legislation. But the objections Manchin described to the bill’s climate measures are misleading.

Scientists describe the largest specimen as a “pale, thread-like” creature just under a millimeter wide, with “330 segments, a cone-shaped head with enormous antennae, and a beak for feeding.”

The Biden administration announced a multi-billion-dollar plan to beef up the nation’s electric vehicle charging system.

The companies said two doses did not produce a robust immune response in kids 2 to 5 years old.

A new executive order from President Joe Biden hopes to cut down on the amount of time people spend accessing all kinds of government services.

The World Meteorological Organization called the temperature reading “more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic.”