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The delicious but endangered sea creature is getting the best help Aquilino can offer.

Behind this locked door is the white abalone's best chance of avoiding extinction

5:11am July 29, 2022

by Chad Campbell

Behind a black door and a sign that reads "Authorized Personnel Only" is a project that aims to bring the white abalone back from the brink of extinction.

The Biden administration plans to offer updated booster shots in the fall.

Summer boosters for people under 50 shelved in favor of updated boosters in the fall

10:57pm July 28, 2022

by Rob Stein

The Biden administration is scrapping plans to offer COVID boosters for people under 50 this summer. Instead they will push for an earlier release of the next generation boosters in the fall.

Maps of storm surge in Miami, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

These hurricane flood maps reveal the climate future for Miami, NYC and D.C.

12:07pm July 28, 2022

National Hurricane Center data for Miami, Washington, D.C., and New York City show development happening in at-risk areas, even as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms.

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Scientist and inventor James Lovelock poses with one of his early inventions, a homemade gas chromatography device, used for measuring gas and molecules present in the atmosphere, at a science museum in London.

James Lovelock, who theorized that Earth is a living organism, dies at 103

4:30pm July 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism gravely imperiled by human activity, has died on his 103rd birthday.

Fossil shows fish evolved to walk on land — then went back to the water

4:27pm July 26, 2022

After an ancient fish developed legs, its newly discovered descendent Qikiqtania wakei went back to swimming in open water.

A medical laboratory technician shows a suspected monkeypox sample at the microbiology laboratory of La Paz Hospital on June 6.

Epidemiologists warn the U.S. reaches a critical moment to contain monkeypox

7:14pm July 25, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

Cases in the U.S. are 10 times higher than they were a month ago. Researchers advise that the coming days and weeks will be crucial as to whether the outbreak can be contained.

Randy Schiefer needed intensive physical therapy after nearly a month in a medically-induced coma.

How a near-death experience could change the way you live

5:01am July 25, 2022

by Lee Hale

When Randy Schiefer was hospitalized with COVID-19, he wasn't sure he would survive. Now, he looks back at that experience as the most important thing that has ever happened to him.

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Kyle Planck, 26, who has recovered from monkeypox, shows scars from rashes on his skin in New York last week.

Monkeypox explained: How to protect yourself and what to watch out for

7:21pm July 24, 2022

by Dustin Jones

The World Health Organization has declared monkeypox a public health emergency of global concern. From how it spreads to preventive measures, here's what you need to know about the disease.

NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first flight-ready mirrors for the James Webb Space Telescope are prepared to undergo testing.

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You can find the tech behind the Webb telescope down here on Earth

5:01am July 24, 2022

by Kai McNamee

While the James Webb telescope flies through space, it's done more for us here on Earth than show images of distant galaxies. The tech has also helped improve the vision of eye surgery patients.

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Baby talk is a universal phenomenon

5:03pm July 23, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Courtney Hilton about his research that centers on how people talk to babies around the world.