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A study published Monday proposes and puts to the test the theory that longer, continuous daylight kick-started weird bacteria into producing lots of oxygen, making most of life as we know it possible.

The O2 turbine weighs 680 metric tons and has a length of 74 meters.

AstraZeneca’s CEO told CNBC the company did not have a “precise answer” on whether a third dose of its Covid-19 vaccine would be needed.

Swedish scientists are attempting to find out if financial incentives could motivate people to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

Asia has billions to feed, and more will be eating plant-based proteins. An R&D lab in Shanghai is key to one of fake meat’s fastest-growing regions.

High temperatures next week will be the result of a heat dome, a strong high pressure system of air that descends from the atmosphere and heats up near land.

The pilot project, known as Symbizon, is slated to last four years.

Local officials in at least five U.S. states are now advising all residents to wear masks in public indoor settings — whether they are vaccinated or not.

Smoke from the Western wildfires was carried by the jet stream and cross-continental wind and triggered health alerts thousands of miles away.

Global scientists have criticized the U.K. government’s plans to ease almost all Covid-19 restrictions, calling it unethical and dangerous for the whole planet.

There’s not enough evidence that booster vaccines are needed for now, said Norman Baylor, president and chief executive officer of Biologics Consulting.

Rubber is a critical raw material needed for car tires, personal protective equipment such as masks and gloves, and many more everyday products. Anytime you’re going anywhere, you’re using rubber. Now, supply chain disruptions have thrown the rubber industry into a tailspin. “We could be on the cusp of a rubber apocalypse,” Ohio State University professor Katrina Cornish told...

The heat wave that gripped the Pacific Northwest and Canada in June was a once-in-a-millennium event impossible without climate change, researchers said.

The trial success of CRISPR gene-editing technology has broad applications to treating other diseases, Intellia Therapeutics CEO John Leonard said.

Hundreds of deaths have been linked to a record-breaking heat wave in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia this week.

The meeting comes as a historic heat wave grips the Pacific Northwest and most of the U.S. West experiences the worst drought in the last two decades.

Jennifer Doudna, 2020 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for CRISPR gene editing and co-founder of Intellia Therapeutics, on future of the breakthrough technology.

Researchers said Homo longi or “Dragon Man” could replace Neanderthals as our own species’ closest relative.

The narrow infrastructure deal leaves President Biden’s proposals on climate change to a separate bill that Democrats would try to pass using reconciliation.

Marine energy’s current footprint is tiny compared to other renewable technologies like solar and wind.