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Dominique Verdier holds Carlota, a former laboratory rat she adopted, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Unwanted lab rats find new homes and are adopted thanks to an Argentine organization

6:24 PM on Sunday, May 17

A group of people watches three albino rats leap from small baskets into a big cage at an indoor hall in the Argentine capital

Ambulances carrying patients evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship with suspected hantavirus infection, leave the Bourget airport, north of Paris, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France says cruise ship Andes virus matches known South American viruses

11:07 AM on Saturday, May 16

France’s Pasteur Institute has fully sequenced the Andes virus found in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship

The humpback whale recovered from a shallow bay off Wismar is being transported towards the North Sea in a flooded cargo ship just before the Danish border in Fehmarn, Germany, Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (Philip Dulian/dpa via AP)

Humpback whale released after spectacular rescue effort found dead off Denmark

9:33 AM on Saturday, May 16

Authorities say a humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and contentious rescue effort

In this image provided by the Four Paws animal welfare organization a dog peers from an enclosure at a shelter in Hunedoara, Romania, Jan. 14, 2026. (Vier Pfoten via AP)

Animal welfare group finds systemic neglect at public dog shelters in Romania

12:12 AM on Friday, May 15

An investigation by the animal welfare group Four Paws reveals systemic neglect at Romania’s publicly funded shelters for stray dogs

This image provided by the NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU from the Psyche mission spacecraft shows Mars on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU via AP)

NASA's Psyche spacecraft buzzing Mars on its way to a rare metal asteroid

7:10 AM on Thursday, May 14

A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid is swinging past Mars for a gravity boost

This image provided by the United States Postal Service shows bald eagle stamps being released Thursday, May 14, 2026, featuring five stages of eagle development, from hatchling to adult. (United States Postal Service via AP)

Postal Service releases special edition bald eagle stamps for America's 250th

11:02 PM on Wednesday, May 13

The U.S. Postal Service is releasing special edition stamps featuring the bald eagle for America's 250th birthday

The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is seen at anchor at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)

Doctor on ship who helped care for passengers with hantavirus leaves medical isolation unit

5:02 PM on Wednesday, May 13

An oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to leave a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska, where he was the lone American placed in isolation after he helped care for fellow passengers who became sick on board

Elk Refuge disease discovery calls for talk of reducing nation’s largest herd

2:56 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Chronic wasting disease has been discovered in the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming

A worker stands on a crane while securing exposed rock along a wall at the Palisades Tunnel Project, part of the Gateway Program, on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in North Bergen, N.J. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

One of the largest modern US infrastructure projects will soon burrow toward New York City

1:58 PM on Wednesday, May 13

The giant machines that will bore a train tunnel beneath the Hudson River connecting Manhattan to New Jersey are being assembled

Two eaglets sit in their nest in Chicago's South Deering neighborhood on Thursday, May 7, 2026. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune via AP)

Bald eagle hatchlings spotted in a Chicago park may be the city's first for more than a century

10:30 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Two bald eagle hatchlings have been spotted in a Chicago park in what experts believe is a first for the Windy City in more than a century

This undated image provided by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences shows an ancient tooth found at the Zhoukoudian archaeological site in eastern China. (Kai Zhou/Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences via AP)

Ancient teeth hint at canoodling between early human relatives

10:01 AM on Wednesday, May 13

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands of years ago

Caregivers at the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary tend to orphan bonobos in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

A rare sanctuary in Congo looks after baby bonobos away from poaching threat

12:36 AM on Wednesday, May 13

A sanctuary on the outskirts of Congo's capital of Kinshasa is the world’s only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos, usually rescued from poachers

Disease outbreak cuts Wyoming, Yellowstone wolf numbers to lowest level since reintroduction era

1:32 PM on Tuesday, May 12

A disease outbreak significantly reduced wolf numbers in Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park last year

FILE - A packet of "the pill" from 1979 is on display in an exhibit at the Museum of Sex in New York, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

By changing women's lives, the pill changed the nation

12:43 PM on Tuesday, May 12

The pill helped give birth to modern America

This combination of images shows Neil deGrasse Tyson at a premiere of "Now You See Me: Now You Don't" in New York on Nov. 10, 2025, left, and cover art for his book "Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter." (AP Photo, left, and Simon & Schuster via AP)

Neil deGrasse Tyson takes on aliens and how we should greet them in 'Take Me to Your Leader'

11:59 AM on Tuesday, May 12

Neil deGrasse Tyson has turned his lifelong fascination with aliens into a new book, “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.”

A Spanish passenger is sprayed with disinfectant by Spanish government officials before boarding a plane after disembarking from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo)

One evacuated passenger tests positive for hantavirus and another develops symptoms on flight home

1:08 AM on Sunday, May 10

Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship have started flying home aboard military and government planes after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands

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