The Trump administration's decision to relax rules regarding the prescription of buprenorphine comes as record-level drug overdose deaths occurred in the U.S. in the 12 months ending in June 2020. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
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Caro Verbeek: What Can The Scents Of The Past Tell Us About Our History?
Apple cores are perfectly safe to eat, even though many choose not to. Cavan Images/Getty Images/Cavan Images RF hide caption
Aircraft largely stayed on the ground in spring 2020, leading to a drop in greenhouse gas emissions. Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption
Speech therapist David Romero uses software to compose words with Teodoro Leazma, who suffered COVID-19. Leazma recovered his mobility, but then realized the illness caused him to have dyslexia and other cognitive disorders. Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images hide caption
In recent years, some in the medical community have started questioning the use of race in kidney medicine, arguing its use could perpetuate health disparities. FG Trade/Getty Images hide caption
Dulles International Airport last month. The CDC will require all air passengers entering the U.S. to provide a negative COVID-19 test before boarding their flight. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Staff and residents of the Ararat Nursing Facility in the Mission Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles got COVID-19 shots on Jan. 7. Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths have been surging throughout Los Angeles County. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
Babe Ruth, a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, in 1918. That year, World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic slashed MLB game attendance by over half from what it was in the previous season. Library of Congress hide caption
An artist's rendering of the twin Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft as they fly through deep space. The MarCOs will be the first CubeSats — a kind of modular, mini-satellite — attempting to fly to another planet. They're designed to fly along behind NASA's InSight lander on its cruise to Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption
Two gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park (but not necessarily these two) tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday. A zoo statement says the apes have mild symptoms but are doing well. Christina Simmons/San Diego Zoo Global Archives hide caption
Gitanjali Rao speaks onstage during The 2018 MAKERS Conference in Los Angeles, California. Rachel Murray/Getty Images for MAKERS hide caption
In March 2018, a White House military aide carries the "football," a system that allows President Trump to launch a nuclear strike at any time. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Sun glancing off the surface of the blue glacial ice exposed at the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area, Antarctica. Ice cores containing trapped air from 2+ million years ago were discovered here in 2015-2016. The blue ice is exposed at the surface through a combination of glacial flow and ablation from the winds that blow year-round in the area. December 2015. John Higgins hide caption
Jess Wade demonstrates how a tornado forms using a water bottle. Jess Wade hide caption
Sybil Appell and her husband Stuart wait in line to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at the Lakes Regional Library on Dec. 30 in Fort Myers, Fla. There were 800 doses of vaccine available at the site. Octavio Jones/Getty Images hide caption
Why U.S. Vaccinations Started Slow And What We Know About The New Coronavirus Variant
A new EPA rule will make it more difficult for the regulators to use some scientific studies about the connection between pollution and health. DKAR Images/Getty Images hide caption
Health workers work in a lab at the Kawasaki City Institute for Public Health at the Kawasaki Innovation Gateway (KING) Skyfront in Kawasaki, Japan. David Mareui/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
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To 'Keep Sharp' This Year, Keep Learning, Advises Neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta
Fear of having to go to the ER during a pandemic might have led kids with asthma to be more careful about regularly using their "controller" inhalers, researchers suspect. But that's likely only one factor in the decline in ER visits. PixelsEffect/Getty Images hide caption
Ambulances are parked outside the NHS Nightingale hospital at the ExCeL center in east London on Friday. Hospitals in the U.K. are preparing for an influx of patients as the coronavirus continues to spread. Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Crews observe the continuing eruption in Halema'uma'u at Kilauea in the early morning of Dec. 28. Overnight, the western vent in the wall of Halema'uma'u continued to erupt. D. Downs/USGS hide caption
The U.S. is unlikely to meet its goal of vaccinating 20 million Americans by the end of the year, health officials said this week. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware. Mark Makela/Getty Images hide caption