These extinct sharks gave birth to some really large babies — about the size of a full-grown human adult.
Oxygen shortage forces evacuation of 60 premature babies from Amazon city
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Sao Paulo, Brazil Brazil's Amazonas State is airlifting 60 premature babies from hospitals in Manaus for emergency care in Sao Paulo, a distance of 3,875 kilometers (2,407 miles), because of a shortage of oxygen supp...
Police respond differently when it’s a left-wing protest, study finds
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President Donald Trump's supporters were still rampaging through the US Capitol when the question arose: If these had been Black Lives Matter demonstrators instead of overwhelmingly White, militant Trump backers, ho...
Coronavirus will knock more than a year off average US life expectancy, study finds
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The coronavirus pandemic is not only having an immediate impact in terms of the deaths of thousands of Americans, it's also taking more than a year off the average US life expectancy. A new study published in the P...
Covid-19 infection grants immunity for five months, UK study suggests
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London People who have been infected by Covid-19 may have immunity to the virus for around five months, according to preliminary findings in a new study led by Public Health England (PHE). The SIREN research examined...
England considers putting Covid patients in hotels, as study reveals deep trauma among ICU workers
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London A large proportion of doctors and nurses have been traumatized by working in intensive care during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, a new study reveals, with almost half reporting symptoms of post-traumatic...
No limit to benefits of exercise when it comes to cardiovascular disease risk, study finds
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It has long been understood that being physically active is good for you, particularly when it comes to preventing things like heart attacks and strokes. Physical exercise may be even more important for the preven...
Ireland’s ‘brutally misogynistic culture’ saw the death of 9,000 babies and children in mother and baby homes, report finds
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Thousands of babies and children died in 18 of Ireland's mother and baby homes -- church-run institutions where unmarried women were sent to deliver their babies in secret, often against their will -- over eight dec...
Three-quarters of Wuhan patients hospitalized for Covid-19 still had symptoms 6 months later, Chinese study finds
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Most patients who had been hospitalized with Covid-19 still suffered a variety of symptoms -- including fatigue and sleep difficulties -- six months after infection, a Chinese study has found. The study of more than...
Ten newborn babies have died in a fire at a hospital in India’s Maharashtra state
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Ten newborn babies died in a hospital fire in the western Indian state of Maharashtra on Friday, according to the country's state-run broadcaster Doordarshan. The fire broke out in a local hospital's Sick Newborn Ca...
Identical twins aren’t always genetically identical, new study finds
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Identical twins may not be quite as identical as we thought; researchers in Iceland have discovered genetic differences that begin at the early stages of embryonic development. Scientists have long used the study of...
New Zealand woman, 19, dies after suspected shark attack
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A 19-year-old woman died Thursday after a suspected shark attack in New Zealand's North Island. According to local police, the woman was injured while in the waters off Waihī Beach late on Thursday afternoon, and di...
Here’s what reporting on the Capitol rioting was like for journalists who were there
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Reporters, producers and photojournalists were our eyes and ears on Wednesday -- showing the world what was happening as a group of Trump supporters mobbed the US Capitol. Here's what some CNN journalists had to sa...