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Kids in Wyoming are most likely to pick up vaping, a study from Universal Drugstore found. The researchers found nearly one in three teens in the state picked up the habit last year.

As California’s average temperatures continue to rise, so does the frequency of heat waves. These extreme temperatures can cause not only health issues, but also financial burdens for residents and businesses. These costs will only get worse unless California officials find a way to mitigate some of the expenses. California Heat Waves The Fourth of ... Read more

Remnants of storm Debby triggered flash flooding in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York state. Video credit: Sarah Hjort via TMX

This summer, director Fede Alvarez ­returns the notorious Alien franchise to its monster-movie roots, and feeds yet another batch of hapless young space colonists to a nest of “xenomorphs”. It remains to be seen if Alien: Romulus will do more than pay loving tribute to Ridley Scott’s original 1979 Alien, but it hardly matters – Alien is a franchise...

A wave of mysterious illness is striking marine mammals along California’s coast, leaving sea lions, dolphins, and fur seals disoriented and sick. Experts suspect domoic acid poisoning, caused by harmful algal blooms, as the culprit behind the alarming symptoms. From Oceano Dunes to Santa Barbara, this outbreak has prompted urgent responses from marine wildlife organizations...

A ban of 13 books across all Utah public schools has now taken effect as free speech advocates warn of the repercussions.

We associate earthquakes with specific areas of the world, like California, which lies along the San Andreas fault.

A new report found that pesticides “penetrate the peel layer” in fruits like apples

A fringe theory called "panspermia" suggests that lifeforms can spread to new planets by hitching rides on meteors. New research lays out a roadmap for finding where these hypothetical, planet-hopping aliens may reside.

Health professionals must encourage vaccination and fight misinformation

By Kanishka Singh and Nilutpal Timsina WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris leads Republican former President Donald Trump in three battleground states - Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan - by four points, according to polls by the New York Times and Siena College. Harris is ahead of Trump by four percentage points in those three

This chart shows the number of recognized species of human pathogens, by existing and emerging status.

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The first known survivor of China’s forced organ harvesting campaign against religious prisoners said he was now ready to speak out and expose the “evil” of the Chinese Communist Party. Cheng Pei Ming, 58, who will talk publicly for the first time in Washington on Friday, described how he still feels “extreme pain” 20 years after parts of his lung ...

"Putin's government has not evinced visible concern that Russia's population might be cut in half by century's end," an Atlantic Council report says.

The outbreak tally has increased to 43 amid recall of 7 million pounds of meat.

In a revised forecast issued Thursday, the federal government still calls for an "extremely active" Atlantic hurricane season.

More soaking rainfall associated with the remnants of post-tropical cyclone Debby is forecast to seize the tri-state area Friday, days after powerful storms dumped 2 inches of rain an hour — and there’s even a chance for tornadoes. A tornado watch issued for more than a half-dozen counties in New Jersey, along with New York’s Hudson Valley and Pike County…

FolderFort's 1TB plan offers 99.99 percent uptime.

"Instead of evolving into separate species over time, lineages readily hybridize with each other," a researcher said.

Woolf: "OpenAI just leaked the plot of Black Mirror's next season."

They have a short window of 4-plus years to plan excursion to asteroid whizzing by Earth

NEWCASTLE, Maine (AP) — Maine leaders want to honor Frances Perkins — the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet-level position and a driving force behind the New Deal — by encouraging the president to make her home a national monument. Perkins served as labor secretary under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and played a key role in shaping his programs that helped Americans recover from the Great Depression, including advocating for...

Five former and current members of the US Coast Guard testified before a subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Thursday about their experience.

More than 400 tremors followed a 5.2-magnitude earthquake that struck near Bakersfield earlier this week, rattling areas across Southern California.

Routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented hundreds of millions of illnesses, tens of millions of hospitalizations and more than 1 million deaths among people born between 1994 and 2023, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC on Thursday confirmed one new death and a handful of freshly reported listeria cases amid the virus' recent outbreak in Boar's Head deli products now in more than a dozen states from the East to Midwest U.S.

(The Center Square) - For the 12th time this year, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act to combat wildfires. Kotek invoked the act on August 6, 2024, responding to the Town Gulch Fire in Baker County. The Baker County Fire Defense Board asked for assistance in protecting life and safety, plus structural fire protec...

"We need a systematic investigation into the environmental drivers." Researchers make concerning discovery about increasingly common factor putting infants at risk: 'We must tackle this pollution at its source' first appeared on The Cool Down.