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Forty years ago, the Chornobyl nuclear power plant exploded in a catastrophic release of radioactive material and debris. The ...

The clearest historical breakthrough arrived in 2000 when Giorgio Stabile, a professor of the history of science at La ...

August 21, 1986, was not a remarkable day for villagers living near Lake Nyos, in northern Cameroon. They woke up; they ...

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I just hope when we poke it, something doesn’t decide to come out. It’s like the beginning of a horror movie.” ...

But mRNA vaccines have also received strong pushback – notably, from US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...