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Dr. Lee Merritt is a orthopedic and spinal surgeon who spreads misinformation about COVID-19. She is affiliated with a prominent right-wing group known as America's Frontline Doctors.

A doctor spread COVID misinformation and renewed her license with a mouse click

Lee Merritt is a back surgeon with a long history of spreading COVID misinformation. But she renewed her medical license last month.

La Jolla Point where sea lions rear their young on Jun 16, 2021.

Worries Over Nearby Sea Lions Could Derail La Jolla's July 4th Fireworks Show

The plan to review La Jolla Fourth of July fireworks has hit a legal bump: There are concerns the explosions will impact sea lions who give birth to their young on the rocky shore of La Jolla Point.

A structural engineer says the process for investigating the collapse will involve trying to reconstruct parts of the building and look for how the critical pieces failed.

A Structural Engineer Explains How The Florida Condo Collapse Will Be Investigated

John Pistorino has been hired to investigate the building collapse in Surfside, Fla. He says the process will involve trying to reconstruct parts of the building to see where critical pieces failed.

Fault lines across San Diego county are shown on the state's Fault Activity Map of California, Sept. 23, 2021.

California Geological Survey Releases New Maps Of Fault Line In San Diego

Maps released Thursday of earthquake-prone areas are intended to ensure new construction in San Diego does not take place atop earthquake faults that may break the surface.

Rapid tests are effective in detecting BA.2, but the high infectivity of the subvariant means it could jump from person to person before a positive result is detected.

Can we trust rapid COVID tests against BA.2? This is what the experts say

With the BA.2 subvariant of omicron pushing infection rates up, many are reaching for at-home rapid tests. Here's what experts say on how best to use them.

How island nations vulnerable to climate change need rich, polluting countries to act

Low-lying islands and nations are among those most at risk from rising sea levels, and have been sounding the alarm on the need for action by wealthier nations to limit global warming for years.

Autherine Lucy Foster (center), the first black student to attend the University of Alabama, waves as the university awarded her an honorary doctorate during a commencement ceremony, on May 3, 2019, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

University of Alabama will remove Klan leader's name from a campus building after all

The university's trustees voted to strip the name of a one-time governor who led the Ku Klux Klan from a campus building and rename it solely for the school's first Black student.

WISA Woodsat, seen in an artist's rendering, is billed as the world's first wooden satellite. It's set to be launched from New Zealand before the end of the year.

Where No Plywood Has Gone Before: A Space Agency Will Launch A Tiny, Wooden Satellite

In Europe, engineers are planning to send a plywood-sheathed satellite into orbit to test how well the venerable construction material holds up in space.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on September 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. He he said last week he will make masculinity a signature political issue.

Sen. Josh Hawley claims masculinity is under attack. This historian disagrees

Hawley is calling for a "revival of ... manhood in America." Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a Calvin University professor and the author of Jesus and John Wayne, explains how masculinity is a political issue.

Dr. William Burke reviewed a PET brain scan at Banner Alzheimer's Institute in Phoenix in 2018. An experimental Alzheimer's drug from Biogen and Eisai is on the verge of a Food and Drug Administration decision.

FDA Poised For Decision On Controversial Alzheimer's Drug

The FDA has until Monday to decide whether to approve the first new Alzheimer's drug in nearly two decades. Two big studies of the drug produced conflicting results.

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