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Despite some recent baby steps, the untangling of the federal government's enduring and preposterous opposition to cannabis as a medicine or recreatio...

ITHACA — A partnership between industry, government and academia is bringing a state-of-the-art lab upgrade to Cornell University’s Department of Anim...

OLEAN — There were 16 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday, while nearly 32,200 people have completed their vaccine series, the Cattaraugus County Health De...

Even if we never learn whether COVID-19 escaped from a lab or jumped to humans from animals, the public is entitled to a closer look at what’s going o...

We don’t yet know where the virus that causes COVID-19, the disease that’s killed nearly 600,000 Americans and 3.5 million globally, came from. SARS-C...

Back in September, I wrote about how in the midst of the pandemic, there was a lot of good news that wasn’t getting much coverage. At the time, the po...

BUFFALO — Since the pandemic began a year ago, University at Buffalo researchers and the Erie County Public Health Laboratory have been using a proces...

Some bad news for spring allergy sufferers: Allergy season brought on by airborne pollen starts about 20 days sooner and lasts about nine days longer ...

It turns out Barbra Streisand was right when she sang about how people need other people — and are lucky for it. At least that’s how I see it. This ha...

Scientists and researchers are racing to satisfy the world’s yearning for a COVID-19 vaccine. Typically, it takes years to accomplish such significant...

While regular headlights on our vehicles have given rise to the expression “like a deer in the headlights,” a new study has found an alternative light...

Even paranoids, as the saying goes, have enemies. That’s why it’s important that even amid mostly November election-oriented political posturing about...

Even paranoids, as the saying goes, have enemies. That’s why it’s important that even amid mostly November election-oriented political posturing about...

The calendar says it’s still winter, but early March usually offers some signs of spring. Chris Crawford of Windfall Road emailed us with a short note...

If you have walked by your local Starbucks or any coffee shop during the scramble of commuters trying to get to work, the line around the block is a c...

If you have walked by your local Starbucks or any coffee shop during the scramble of commuters trying to get to work, the line around the block is a c...

Was the namesake of Pulaski, N.Y. — and closer to home, the Pulaski Club in Olean — a woman? Researchers say the Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulask...

(TNS) Ever take out your contact lenses and drop them down the sink? Those tiny lenses are contributing to a much larger plastics problem, say researc...