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Sean Penn wants to 'save lives' with free COVID-19 testing

After nearly a decade of helping communities in distress abroad, Sean Penn is joining the fight against the coronavirus much ...

FDA warns Alex Jones to stop pitching bogus virus remedies

U.S. health officials are warning conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones to stop pitching bogus remedies for the ...

Bunnies to the rescue as virus hits Belgian chocolatiers

Master chocolatier Dominique Persoone stood forlorn on his huge workfloor, a faint smell of cocoa lingering amid the idle ...

No social distancing in space: New crew greeted with hugs

Three astronauts flew to the International Space Station on Thursday, departing the virus-plagued planet with little fanfare ...

Second US study for COVID-19 vaccine uses skin-deep shots

U.S. researchers have opened another safety test of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, this one using a skin-deep shot instead ...

Report: Outbreak triggers drop in climate-changing emissions

Despite mocking the idea of climate change, President Donald Trump will preside over one of the country’s sharpest drops in ...

Science row hits EU at height of coronavirus crisis

The European Union has been thrown into a scientific policy dispute at the height of the coronavirus crisis after the head ...

Burton to donate 500,000 respirator masks across Northeast

The Burton snowboard company is donating 500,000 respirator masks to hospitals across the Northeast, harnessing the company's ...

Bleaching on Great Barrier Reef more widespread than ever

An aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows coral bleaching is sweeping across the area off the east of Australia for ...

Modeling coronavirus: 'Uncertainty is the only certainty'

A statistical model cited by the White House generated a slightly less grim figure Monday for a first wave of deaths from the ...

'Old school' technique helps expert ID remains from 1969

Thanks to an old-fashioned fingerprint-matching technique, the remains of a shooting victim found alongside a New Hampshire ...

Anti-doping group funds extensive COVID-19 research project

The nonprofit that raises funds for around 80% of the world's anti-doping research is shifting $120,000 to conduct 15,000 ...

Catch this week's supermoon, biggest and brightest of year

A supermoon rises in the sky this week, looking to be the biggest and brightest of the year. Not only will the moon be closer ...

US company poised to start COVID-19 vaccine safety test

A second U.S. company is poised to begin a small safety test of a vaccine against the new coronavirus. Inovio Pharmaceuticals ...

No COVID-19 testing at home yet but quicker options coming

Home testing for the new coronavirus may sound like a good idea, but U.S. regulators say it's still too risky.

A mounting casualty of coronavirus crisis: Health care jobs

Tens of thousands of medical workers across the United States are suddenly out of work as operating rooms and doctor's ...

Coronavirus survivor: 'In my blood, there may be answers'

Tiffany Pinckney remembers the fear when COVID-19 stole her breath. So when she recovered, the New York City mother became ...

Cleanup of US nuclear waste takes back seat as virus spreads

The U.S. government’s efforts to clean up Cold War-era waste from nuclear research and bomb making at federal sites around ...

Iran parliament speaker, Israeli health minister have virus

Iran’s parliament speaker has contracted the new coronavirus, the country's highest-ranking government figure yet to catch ...

Agonizing decisions being made in Spain's virus hot spots

Raquel Fernández watched as cemetery workers lowered her grandmother's casket into the grave and placed it on top of the ...