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Federal Judge Halts RFK Jr.’s Mass Firing Efforts at H....
In an order on Tuesday, a judge found the Trump administration’s plans to drasti...
Crucial Hurricane Monitoring Data Will Go Offline at th...
U.S. officials said they would stop providing the satellite data online on July ...
A Common Assumption About Aging May Be Wrong, Study Sug...
Experts have long pointed to inflammation as a natural part of getting older. Bu...
How a Puzzle About Fractions Got Brain Scans Rolling
A story of bowling pins, patterns and medical miracles.
Maybe It’s Not Just Aging. Maybe It’s Anemia.
Significant numbers of older people have the condition. Many find relief with an...
Stars Passing Near the Sun Could Cause Planets to Colli...
Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Ea...
Orcas Use Kelp as a Possible Grooming Tool
In a new sign of toolmaking in marine mammals, orcas in the Pacific Northwest we...
Human Activity Is Driving the Evolution of Wild Animals...
Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban d...
Mike Lee’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Faces MAGA Pushback
They love hunting, fishing and conservatism. And they hate a plan by a conservat...
Critical Hurricane Monitoring Data Is Going Offline
The loss of access to the data could hamstring forecasters’ ability to track hur...
How Two Neuroscientists View Optical Illusions
The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an o...
Here’s Another Use for Ice: Creating Secret Codes
Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patter...
Global Warming Is Speeding Up and the World Is Feeling ...
Human-caused global warming has been increasing faster and faster since the 1970s.
Mysterious Fireball Reported Over South Carolina, Georg...
A glowing object lit up the sky, prompting dozens of calls to the authorities, a...
RFK Jr.’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some...
Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providi...
N.I.H. Memo Pauses Cancellations of Medical Research Gr...
The directive, in a memo issued Tuesday, came after two court rulings that quest...