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Housecats are “murderous” creatures and pose “a big threat to biodiversity” because of their natural predatory instincts, warns National Public Radio (NPR) in an essay this week.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may soon green-light a drug that could help large-breed dogs live longer.

An unprecedented “enormous dark hole” has opened in the sun’s surface and spewed streams of “unusually fast radiation” directly towards Earth.

An American boy who lost when competing against other boys says he is a “transgender” girl, won a girls’ sompetition, and is headed to the Irish Dancing World Championships for girls.

An earthquake hit Saturday just before 11:00 p.m. off the coast of the Philippines in Mindanao, igniting fears of a possible tsunami.

An experimental drug that could lengthen the lifespan of larger dogs and keep them healthier later in life may hit the market after clearing a “key FDA regulatory hurdle.”

The once prestigious Lancet medical journal has made the astounding claim that the year 2023 saw “the highest global temperatures in over 100,000 years,” even though temperature data collection only began in the 19th century.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket was launched for a second time on Saturday but ended up exploding, USA Today reported.

The federal government failed to notice an unlicensed bio lab in Reedley, California, which stored many communicable diseases and was created by a fugitive Chinese citizen with close ties to China’s government, according to a congressional report.

Double Olympic champion middle-distance runner Caster Semenya claims to be a woman, despite being born without a uterus, adding that he “embraces” the “differences” he was born with.

Leftist activists bent on disrupting Riley Gaines’ Real Women’s Day at Penn State University (PSU) last month got pushback from Keystone State lawmaker, Cris Dush (R) who not only stood up to them on campus but threatened to pull funding from the school if their attempts to shut down Gaines’ right to speak continued.

Transgenderism mimics the 1980s craze among young people who claimed to have had a “recovered memory” of sexual trauma, says a Finnish doctor.

A rarely-seen exploding “devil comet” over three times the size of Mount Everest will light up Earth’s skies come April.

The skies of California are set to witness the flight of the latest toy of the Masters of the Universe — Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s Pathfinder 1, a helium-filled airship that recently gained flight clearance from the FAA.

A failure to recognize the biological basis of gender is an offense to both reason and science, two California bishops assert in a pastoral letter.

Parts of the U.S. will see a “rare” solar eclipse event known as the “Ring of Fire” on Saturday, prompting preparation from California’s electric grid to mitigate solar power loss.

About 7 million Americans have received the updated versions of the coronavirus vaccines, compared to 56.5 million people who received last year’s version.

Female frogs sometimes play dead to avoid excessively agressive attempts at mating from males, a new study has revealed.

Further “presumed human remains,” along with debris from the OceanGate Titan sub, have been recovered from the ocean floor, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.

Scientists report seismic activity has increased regarding Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, which is known as one of the most active on the planet.

U.S. health officials predict the approaching cooler months will be similar to those in 2022 concerning viruses affecting the nation.

Abortion giant Planned Parenthood has increasingly been providing what the left calls “gender-affirming care” to people who believe they are transgender — and in the case of at least one teen, a clinic allegedly supplied him with sex-change hormones after a 30-minute consultation.

The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Wednesday that it plans to double the size of China’s Tiangong space station.

New York City public hospitals will be among the first public health systems in the United States to facilitate the killing of the unborn via telehealth

A federal appeals court has upheld a Tennessee and Kentucky ban on transgender-related medical procedures for minors.

Two major anthropological associations have canceled a panel discussion on the importance of biological sex, citing harm to the “Trans and LGBTQI” communities and their collective “dignity.”

A study published by scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in July, and reportedly circulating widely on Chinese social media this week, concluded that as many as 20 species of coronavirus are “highly likely” to cause an outbreak among humans.

Brian May took time from his upcoming concert tour to gush about NASA’s success in returning the first-ever asteroid sample from space.

A large asteroid could smash into earth in 159 years, according to NASA.  Known as Bennu, the near Earth object has orbited Earth roughly every six years since 1999 when it was discovered, the New York Post reported.  

A majority of Democrats say the trend of people having fewer children has a “positive impact” on the environment, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

SpaceX’s ambitious Starlink project has failed to meet Elon Musk’s initial projections for customer growth and revenue, raising questions about the viability of satellite internet in an increasingly competitive market. The company had about 1.5 million customers worldwide at the end of 2022 against a project of 20 million subscribers.

Some hospitals and hospital systems across the country are reinstating mask policies well over three years after the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, who famously declined to take the coronavirus vaccine, won his fourth U.S. Open and 24th Grand Slam on Sunday, where he followed up his win explaining to ESPN that his decision not to take the vaccination “was never anti-vax” and “was always pro-freedom.”

NASA has announced it will study UFOs using AI, machine learning, and crowdsourcing in its first-ever study into alleged UFO sightings.

NASA has published its first-ever study into hundreds of alleged UFO sightings in recent decades, and has concluded that there is “no reason” to believe any of them are aliens.

The Florida Department of Health is advising against the latest coronavirus booster shot for individuals younger than the age of 65, issuing several warnings, highlighting the potential adverse effects, including cardiovascular conditions such as myocarditis.