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Doctors say changes to US vaccine recommendations are confusing parents and could harm kids

Dr. Molly O’Shea has noticed growing skepticism about vaccines at both of her Michigan pediatric offices and says this week’s unprecedented and confusing changes …

FILE - Vaccines are prepared for students during a pop-up immunization clinic at a school in Louisville, Ky., on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File)

Some flu measures decline, but it’s not clear this severe season has peaked

FILE - Pharmacy manager Aylen Amestoy administers a patient with a seasonal flu vaccine at a CVS Pharmacy in Miami, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

NASA, in a rare move, cuts space station mission short after an astronaut’s medical issue

FILE - The International Space Station is seen from the space shuttle Atlantis on July 19, 2011, after it left the orbiting complex. (NASA via AP, File)

Experts say Trump pullout from UN climate fighting will hurt world and leave US out of green surge

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Europe’s most active volcano is erupting, and tour guides are told to stay away

Explosive activity concentrates at the north-east crater of the Mount Etna, as an eruption started on Dec. 24 continues, in Sicily, Italy, Monday Dec. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra)

A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct

FILE - A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., March 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

What’s inside Mexico’s Popocatépetl? Scientists obtain first 3D images of the whole volcano

Marco Calo, left, a geophysicist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), take a break on the slopes of the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

The year’s first meteor shower and supermoon clash in January skies

This 1825 etching provided by the Library of Congress shows an astronomical chart depicting Bootes the Ploughman holding a spear, a sickle, and two dogs, Asterion and Chara, on leashes, a quadrant, and the hair of Berenice forming the constellations. (Sidney Hall/Library of Congress via AP)

Hungary’s ‘water guardian’ farmers fight back against desertification

Oszkár Nagyapáti, farmer and member of the volunteer water guardians group, poses for a photo with an artificial lake in Kiskunmajsa, Hungary, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Russia sends 3 Iranian satellites into orbit, report says

Neil Frank, former hurricane center chief who improved public outreach on storms, has died

Japan’s new flagship H3 rocket fails to put geolocation satellite into orbit

The H3 rocket (8th) by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), carrying a navigation satellite, is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane, Tanegashima island, southern Japan Monday, Dec.22, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space

This photo provided by Blue Origin shows Michaela Benthaus, a German engineer aiming to become the first wheelchair user in space, talking to crewmate Hans Koenigsmann, a retired SpaceX executive who helped organize and sponsor her flight, on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, at Blue Origin’s rocket launch site in Van Horn, Texas. (Blue Origin via AP)

How sewage can be used to heat and cool buildings

A veterinarian works on an animal in a building that is heated and cooled by a wastewater heat recovery system Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

Hubble Space Telescope spies dusty debris from two cosmic collisions

This illustration provided by NASA in December 2025 depicts the aftermath of a collision between two massive space rocks orbiting the star Fomalhaut. (NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford, Space Telescope Science Institute via AP)

Along the Texas Coast, a new sanctuary aims to protect the endangered and rare whooping crane

Katie Fernald, Wetland/Rangeland Ecologist, International Crane Foundation, left, and Matti Bradshaw, Leiden Whooping Crane Biologist, International Crane Foundation, study whooping cranes, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, near Rockport, Texas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Rain creates a crimson spectacle on Iran’s Hormuz Island for the first time this year

This picture, taken from video, shows how rainfall briefly transforms the coastline of its famed Red Beach into a striking natural scene on Iran's Hormuz Island, Tuesday Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo)

Catch the Ursid meteor shower as it peaks just before Christmas

FILE - People look up to the sky from an observatory near the village of Avren, Bulgaria, Aug. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov, File)

Saturn’s moon Titan may not have a buried ocean as long suspected, new study suggests

FILE - This image made by the Cassini spacecraft and provided by NASA on March 12, 2006, shows two of Saturn's moons, the small Epimetheus and smog-enshrouded Titan, with Saturn's A and F rings stretching across the frame. (NASA via AP)

A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue

In this photograph taken in September 2025 and released Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, by Stelvio National Park, Late Triassic prosauropod footprints are seen on the slopes of the Fraeel Valley in northern Italy. (Elio Della Ferrera/Stelvio National Park via AP)

Before megalodon, researchers say a monstrous shark ruled ancient Australian seas

A illustration made in Sept. 3, 2025, of a gigantic 8 meter (26 foot) long mega-predatory lamniform shark swimming beside a long-necked plesiosaur in the seas off Australia 115 million years ago. (Pollyanna von Knorring/Swedish Museum of Natural History via AP)

Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought

Discovery of the first fragment of iron pyrite in 2017, at Barnham, Suffof, England. (Jordan Mansfield/Pathways to Ancient Britain Project via AP)

Blend of unusual weather conditions brings trillions of gallons in persistent rain to the Northwest

Maery Schine, 11, is helped out of a rescue boat by rescue workers with Chehalis Fire after evacuating with her father Patric, second from left, following flooding after heavy rains in the region Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, in Chehalis, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Ocean warmed by climate change fed intense rainfall and deadly floods in Asia, study finds

FILE - Survivors walk past the wreckage of a car at an area affected by flash flooding in the aftermath of Cyclone Senyar in Aceh Tamiang, on Sumatra Island, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara, File)