Health

A moment that changed me: I was turning 40 with an arthritis diagnosis

I started kickboxing 20 years ago in a bid to be like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but thought I could never manage all the punching and jumping. It turns out I could handle much more than I thought

Teens Are Forgoing a Classic Rite of Passage

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The Safest Vehicles for Teen Drivers and How Much They Cost

Ready to hand over the car keys to a teenager for the first time? The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Consumer Reports are out with a list of cars to help get them safely from point A to point B.

‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’

Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last tropical glaciers found the remaining ‘eternal snow’ in Indonesia’s West Papua region has lost almost all its ice

Mapping the last glaciers in Oceania

The expedition’s goal was to create the first 3D model of Indonesian mountain’s remaining ice before it disappears

At least 1 dead, 9 workers missing after chemical tank implosion at Washington state paper mill

Updated on: May 26, 2026 / 10:46 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Chemical tank implosion leaves one dead, nine missing in Washington

A chemical tank at a Washington paper mill imploded Tuesday, leaving one dead and nine missing, according to authorities.

Diver who helped save soccer team in Thailand holds out hope miners trapped in Laos cave are still alive

In pitch-black tunnels in a remote mine in central Laos, rescuers are risking their lives to save seven miners who have been trapped for a week.

Women's faces rated more attractive even by other women, study finds

'Gender attractiveness gap' appears across cultures and over centuries but difference fades away with age

Climate crisis is accelerating antibiotic resistance across world, study says

Experts say climate change linked to 10% rise in salmonella antibiotic resistance genes between 1940 and 2023

Seven heat-related deaths in France as May records set in several countries

Extreme early summer event across western Europe also brings highest temperatures for month in UK and Ireland

Trump completes annual physical after year of public attention to health issues

US president, who turns 80 next month, frequently casts himself as fit but recent photos have added to questions about his health