Medicine & TechnologyChina has committed to becoming a carbon-neutral nation by 2060, after resolving to hit peak emissions before 2030, President Xi Jinping announced at the UN General Assembly.
Rocket Lab, the private aerospace company behind the Electron launch vehicle, has received a five-year Launch Operator License from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and protests for racial justice, the gun industry’s trade association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, estimates that gun sales from March through July were 8.5 million. This is 94% higher the same period in 2019.
More than 1 in 10 of the nation’s approximately 50 million public school students speak a native language other than English, according to the latest federal data. Roughly 3 in 4 of these English learners speak Spanish.
Tiktok is preparing to mount a legal challenge on Monday to US President Donald Trump's executive order banning transactions with the Chinese video app and its parent company ByteDance. They would also contest the White House's classification of them as a national threat.
Thousands of students in the United States have been quarantined after schools have reopened. How has South Korea managed to have zero cases within the first two months of face-to-face classes?
The US and UK say that Russia fired a satellite weapon in space that can target satellites in orbit. The two countries said it was concerning, but Russia has denied these accusations.
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said that the country could reverse the course of coronavirus surges in just two to three weeks if people would do their part. He refers to wearing face masks, practicing good hand hygiene, and observing proper social distancing.
The United States has invested $42 million into producing syringes and needles in anticipation of the future coronavirus vaccine. The US President is hopeful that a vaccine could be ready by the end of the year or early next year.
Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert, says the U.S. isn't doing so well in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. He says the country is still knee-deep in its first wave and needs to come up with quick solutions to try and overcome the resurgence of cases.
People with respiratory illness are advised to stay home as a giant Saharan dust cloud is on its way to the United States striking weather phenomenon and causes hazy skies affecting air quality.
A team of researchers found that there is a spike of people who went to doctors or clinics with influenza-like illnesses in March which suggests that more 80% of them were never diagnosed.
A newly discovered coronavirus mutation may be "immune" to vaccines currently being tested. It is of urgent concern to the medical community, which is searching for a vaccine that will work against COVID-19.