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Too much exposure to the sun has traditionally been seen as a danger. Now claims that sunscreen is toxic flood the internet. What does the science say? It’s summertime in the UK and social media is awash with influencers airing their concerns about sunscreen. Among them is reality TV star...

Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic The US Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday it would terminate 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines, questioning the safety of a technology credited with helping end the Covid pandemic and...

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in the 1960s calling for Black voting rights has been reconstructed in its entirety at a museum near Detroit

A small medical transport plane crashed and caught fire on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people

Museums across the U.S. have artifacts on display that represent and reflect landmark events of the Civil Rights era

The Justice Department has identified some three dozen states, cities and counties as so-called sanctuary jurisdictions

U.S. stock indexes slipped following the latest discouraging signal on the U.S. economy

A Purdue University student from South Korea has been freed from federal detention following days of protests by faith leaders in New York and abroad

Recently, a group of world-leading scientists called for a halt on research to create ‘mirror life’ microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an ‘unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth. Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay about why this work initially seemed exciting for scientists and what the risks...