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In an interview with The Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy ascribed the crisis in part to “hustle culture” values.

Current and former employees recall rising desperation as Trump administration officials squelched research into the new coronavirus.

Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus that health officials hoped to contain is now in more than half the 50 states, according to a new research paper.

X-ray technology has allowed researchers a glimpse at the reaches of the Yellowstone landmark’s prized stone and its importance to Indigenous people.

A new U.N. report says it is still possible to hold global warming to relatively safe levels, but doing so will require global cooperation, billions of dollars and big changes.

A lab leak was once dismissed by many as a conspiracy theory. But the idea is gaining traction, even as evidence builds that the virus emerged from a market.

Chunks of communications equipment, which were jettisoned from the International Space Station, moved at 17,000 miles per hour, making for a nighttime spectacle.

The growing season has become completely reversed thanks to kerosene-burning greenhouses and the big prices paid for the earliest, best berries.

Medication abortion providers could serve six months in prison under the law, one of a growing number of efforts by conservative states to target the pills.

Genetic research from China suggests to some experts that the coronavirus may have sprung from a seafood market in Wuhan. Now the data are missing from a scientific database.

The monogamous, hibernating canids, which are related to foxes, are sold for meat and fur.

Critically endangered species and ones banned from international trade are among the hundreds of types birds, reptiles and mammals that researchers identified at 142 animal cafes.

The New England Aquarium is raising 18 baby sea dragons after a successful and rare breeding event. The baby dragons, who look too much alike to have names, will go on display this summer.

Three hundred goldfish in a hospital basement, a suckermouth at the airport: When fish are in crisis, a local woman and a partner in Pennsylvania ride to the rescue.

Genetic samples from the market were recently uploaded to an international database and then removed after scientists asked China about them.

While an agency analysis did find signs of Covid “rebound,” the drug significantly reduces hospitalizations and deaths, researchers said.

Babesiosis, which can cause flulike symptoms, could be spreading because of rising temperatures and the growing deer population.

The biologically diverse land is central to the creation story of the Mojave and other tribes. Energy companies have also identified it as a prime location for wind or solar installations.

Key industries — including some that the White House is backing through other policies — are lobbying to water down the first major new rules in a generation on chemicals that pose risks to humans.

In 2021, deaths of pregnant women soared by 40 percent in the United States, according to new government figures. Here’s how one family coped after the virus threatened a pregnant mother.