Titan Sub Tragedy: Coast Guard Hearings Reveal New Insights
Contrary to public reports last year, the passengers probably had no idea that the vessel was about to implode.
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Contrary to public reports last year, the passengers probably had no idea that the vessel was about to implode.
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A researcher followed up on a study warning that the massive trees were in danger, and found many venerable specimens thriving.
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While the sea robin has legs, it still doesn’t need a bicycle.
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Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star.
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A Leggy Tyrannosaur Emerges From a Mexican Desert
Scientists say that the fossil of a close relative of Tyrannosaur rex bolsters their case for a distinctive southern population of the fearsome dinosaurs.
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This Black Hole Has a Cosmic Wingspan
Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies.
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This Cheese Stood Alone for 3,600 Years
The cheese was dug up with mummified human remains in the Xinjiang region of China and offers insights into the origins of the dairy product known as kefir.
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Desert Racers Demolish Art Carved by Ancient People in Chile
Preservationists say governments at all levels have failed to prevent authorized and illegal off-road racers from driving through giant figures of animals, humans and objects.
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One man’s “never-ending quest” for the least-known varieties of the world’s most-eaten fruit.
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Chimps and other apes have been observed making more than 80 meaningful gestures. Three theories have tried to explain why.
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Our Bigger Brains Came With a Downside: Faster Aging
A study comparing chimpanzee and human brains suggests that the regions that grew the most during human evolution are the most susceptible to aging.
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How Did the First Cells Arise? With a Little Rain, Study Finds.
Researchers stumbled upon an ingredient that can stabilize droplets of genetic material: water.
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Scientists Find Arm Bone of Ancient ‘Hobbit’ Human
New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said.
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How Did Roses Get Their Thorns?
The “prickles,” as botanists call them, evolved in roses and other plants thanks to a single gene, a new study found.
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Punching Octopuses Lead Fish on Hunting Parties
Octopuses and fish are routinely seen working together on the ocean floor, and now scientists say that the cephalopods are the leaders of the pack.
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A Fossilized Creature May Explain a Puzzling Painting on a Rock Wall
The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western approaches to the field.
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Why This Tiny Lizard Dives With a Natural Scuba Tank
Almost every animal in the rainforest enjoys snacking on water anoles, but slippery skin and an ability to carry an air bubble underwater help them survive.
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These Apes Dance Like Someone Is Watching
Gibbons move with rhythm and intention. Dare we say style?
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These Monkeys Call One Another by Name
Marmosets are the first nonhuman primates known to use name-like labels for individuals, a new study suggests.
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Extreme Weather Is Taxing Utilities More Often. Can A.I. Help?
From hurricanes to wildfires, a new generation of technologies could help utilities better plan for the risk of extreme weather to their electric grid.
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Conspiracy Theorists and Vaccine Skeptics Have a New Target: Geoengineering
Around the country, people with a deep distrust of government want to preemptively ban the use of aerosols to reduce heat from the sun.
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An Oil C.E.O. Answers Our Questions
The Times hosted leaders and policymakers to talk about growing threats of climate change, and spoke with the C.E.O. of Occidental Petroleum.
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They’ve Got a Plan to Fight Global Warming. It Could Alter the Oceans.
By tweaking the chemistry of rivers and oceans, humans could remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air. But huge challenges loom.
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The Hidden Environmental Costs of Food
Damage to the natural world isn’t factored into the price of food. But some governments are experimenting with a new way of exposing the larger costs of what we eat.
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The death, which was reported on Friday, is only the fifth fatal human rabies case in Minnesota since 1975, health officials said.
By Hank Sanders
Two astronauts — one American, one Russian — are headed to the International Space Station with two empty seats for crewmates who are already in orbit.
By Kenneth Chang
With communication lines down in the mountains amid Helene, early reports were unclear about how many landslides had occurred and the extent of damage from the storm.
By Austyn Gaffney
A pet trust designates a new guardian for companion animals and sets aside funds for their care. Better yet, it’s legally binding.
By Paula Span
Specialized viewfinders installed across state parks let visitors with red-green colorblindness see more distinct colors.
By Emmett Lindner
Federal regulators spent billions of dollars to avoid a spike in costs for older Americans that could have been politically damaging to the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris.
By Rebecca Robbins and Reed Abelson
Seven people in contact with a patient hospitalized with bird flu also developed symptoms, the C.D.C. reported. Some are undergoing further tests.
By Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes
Shares of the company, one of the largest chains of for-profit psychiatric hospitals, were down 25 percent at one point.
By Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas
The birth defects were more likely, but still very uncommon, in infants conceived through certain fertility treatments, a large study found.
By Teddy Rosenbluth
Available antipsychotic treatments work by blocking dopamine receptors. The new drug, Cobenfy, takes a different approach.
By Ellen Barry and Christina Jewett
The F.B.I. is also investigating the large chain of psychiatric hospitals for holding patients longer than what is medically necessary.
By Katie Thomas and Jessica Silver-Greenberg
Health experts, gathering at the U.N., have begun to shift their focus to try to provide access to basic drugs in countries where preventable deaths from infections occur too frequently.
By Andrew Jacobs
A new report calls for public education and closing of legal loopholes to keep the public safe.
By Matt Richtel
Wildlife experts fear that a rat could disrupt the island’s delicate balance, so they are pulling out all the stops.
By Amanda Holpuch
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A top medical device regulator’s work overlapped at times with his wife’s legal representation of clients with business before the agency.
By Christina Jewett
This newly redesigned space at the Natural History Museum in London traces 540 million years of the past while creating an outdoor laboratory for the future.
By Keridwen Cornelius
Storm Boris dumped record amounts of rain over Central and Eastern Europe this month. A new study found climate change made the deluge more likely.
By Austyn Gaffney
Overwhelmed by queries, physicians are turning to artificial intelligence to correspond with patients. Many have no clue that the replies are software-generated.
By Teddy Rosenbluth
From Covid to dengue, viral outbreaks seemed to be popping up all over. But maybe Americans are just more attuned to threats now.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
A transformed China, conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere, and intractable clashes over money have pushed the prospects of progress to a new low.
By Somini Sengupta and Max Bearak
Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.
By Jonathan Moens
During an equinox, places around the globe experience nearly equal amounts of daytime and nighttime. The second occurrence this year happens on Sunday.
By Katrina Miller
The decrease across the country is a major breakthrough in efforts to reverse the effects of fentanyl. Researchers and health officials say there is no easy explanation for the trend.
By Noah Weiland
Your stomping may have helped trim this invasive insect’s population. But experts say other factors probably explain their reduced numbers around New York City.
By Emily Anthes
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There’s a growing understanding of the health threats of PFAS chemicals in what we eat and drink.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
Pastures were fertilized with toxic sewage decades ago. Nobody knew, until the cows’ milk was tested.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
He was a pioneer in chronobiology, the study of how our bodies understand the passage of time.
By Clay Risen
Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a new study suggests.
By Becky Ferreira
The F.D.A. authorized AstraZeneca’s treatment to be given outside a health care setting, although it will still need a prescription.
By Christina Jewett
The case takes aim at the major pharmacy benefit managers, agency officials said, claiming that they favored more expensive insulin products and forced patients to pay more.
By Reed Abelson and Rebecca Robbins
The infamous plant, closed since 2019, is getting a new lease on life after Microsoft agreed to buy its electricity to supply a growing fleet of data centers.
By Brad Plumer
A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.
By Franz Lidz
He identified the cause of a respiratory condition that was killing 10,000 infants a year in the United States. Then he helped design a drug that slashed those mortality rates.
By Trip Gabriel
At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a new reconstruction of Earth’s deep past.
By Raymond Zhong
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Schools across the country are adding trees, tent-like structures and water to their playgrounds as temperatures soar.
By Somini Sengupta
Three scientists were recognized by the Lasker Awards for their work on the GLP-1 hormone. Others were honored for work to stop H.I.V. and for immune system discoveries.
By Gina Kolata and Stephanie Nolen
Satellite data shows the U.S. releasing more and more of the potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, researchers said, despite pledges to cut back.
By Max Bearak
Two days of reporting and testifying by experts during a U.S. Coast Guard inquiry challenge the idea that the submersible’s passengers knew they were facing death.
By William J. Broad and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
An environmental group said the company, a major food producer, was misleading shoppers with its claims about eco-friendly practices.
By Karen Zraick
Flooding events around the world share a common factor of an atmosphere made warmer by climate change. What can be done to help citizens prepare?
By Austyn Gaffney and Somini Sengupta
The U.S. Coast Guard released new footage of the tail cone from the Titan submersible at the bottom of the ocean. A piece of carbon fiber is next to the tail cone.
Ballistic armor companies are marketing protective products designed for the military to parents and schools. Some people see the items as unsettling but prudent; others find them infuriating.
By Emily Baumgaertner and Alex Kalman
By outfitting blackbirds with heart-rate monitors, scientists debunked a long-held assumption about the benefits of spending the winter in warm climates.
By Emily Anthes
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long voiced doubts about vaccine safety, has hopes of influencing federal health policy. Could he finally get the chance?
By Emily Baumgaertner
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The members of a self-described ragtag group had little in common, but their campaign could serve as model for future environmental efforts.
By Zoë Rom and Eli Imadali
The Climate reporter Hiroko Tabuchi is interested in all the things we take for granted about our environment.
By Josh Ocampo
Scientists continue to rethink the idea that moderate drinking offers health benefits.
By Roni Caryn Rabin
Climate change is influencing extreme weather events like the flooding across six countries that has led to mass evacuations of cities as the waters continue to rise.
By Austyn Gaffney
Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger the spacecraft’s ability to study an ocean moon of Jupiter.
By David W. Brown
Earth’s shadow will partially cover one of the biggest and brightest full moons this year.
By Katrina Miller
Researchers have found several promising ways to thwart the fungus, which causes the deadly white-nose syndrome in bats.
By Carl Zimmer and Graham Dickie
Researchers are studying the role of eelgrass beds for carbon capture and the health of the habitat for a variety of species.
By Murray Carpenter
Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more top down than bottom up.
By Katrina Miller
As hormones surge, some brain areas shrink in what scientists say may be a fine-tuning that helps mothers bond with and care for their babies.
By Pam Belluck
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Kendric Cromer, 12, is among the first patients to be treated with gene therapy just approved by the F.D.A. that many other patients face obstacles to receiving.
By Gina Kolata and Kenny Holston
Former employees of the company, OceanGate, said they worried about its practices long before a fatal implosion that killed five people. A Coast Guard hearing resumes on Tuesday.
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and William J. Broad
He conceived many of the techniques and tools that have revolutionized minimally invasive operations and procedures.
By Richard Sandomir
Some treatments and procedures become routine despite lacking strong evidence to show that they’re beneficial. Recent studies have called a few into question.
By Paula Span
A close contact of someone with bird flu became ill on the same day, the C.D.C. reported. But the second person was not tested, and the cause of the illness is unknown.
By Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes
The decision is a crucial step in getting shots to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of the outbreak.
By Stephanie Nolen
The astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore expressed support for NASA and Boeing, following the decision for them to remain in orbit, while the troubled spacecraft they rode to the International Space Station returned to Earth uncrewed.
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Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore of NASA spoke from the International Space Station for the first time since their Boeing orbital transport returned to Earth uncrewed.
By Katrina Miller and Kenneth Chang
The company said that the site would close indefinitely and that it would permanently stop making liverwurst. Union officials said the plant’s 500 workers would be given severance and offered relocation.
By Christina Jewett and Teddy Rosenbluth
Recent studies show that certain feather pigments can help neutralize toxic pollution. It means darker, duller birds could have a survival advantage.
By Marta Zaraska
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It’s just a little guy, and not everyone agrees that it’s actually a mini-moon.
By Robin George Andrews
In a new study, many people doubted or abandoned false beliefs after a short conversation with the DebunkBot.
By Teddy Rosenbluth
Consumer Reports found lead in a variety of products, at a time when federal regulators are seeking authority from Congress to combat the problem of heavy metals in foods.
By Christina Jewett
A new federal database helps users determine the likelihood of their community experiencing a landslide.
By Austyn Gaffney
New research suggests that dosage plays a role in a rare side effect of A.D.H.D. stimulants.
By Christina Caron
Jared Isaacman, the billionaire leading the Polaris Dawn mission, and Sarah Gillis, a SpaceX engineer, exited and re-entered their spacecraft in a test of commercial space technologies.
By Kenneth Chang
He advanced the study of a millenniums-old mystery: why the moon appears larger on the horizon than it does high in the night sky.
By Alex Traub
Americans are already turning to A.I. for health information in large numbers, new research suggests.
By Teddy Rosenbluth
Vice President Kamala Harris nodded to the urgency of climate change but also highlighted the country’s record levels of oil and gas production.
By Lisa Friedman
Francisco Lopera defied rebels, cartels and vampire bats to become a pioneering researcher of Alzheimer’s disease.
By Jennie Erin Smith
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In human remains buried in an Italian crypt, researchers found evidence of cocaine use from the 17th century.
By Alexander Nazaryan
Fatalities spiked 71 percent last year, far outpacing the 13 percent rise in cases, the World Health Organization said.
By Stephanie Nolen
After launching early on Tuesday, the billionaire Jared Isaacman and his crew traveled to altitudes not visited by any astronaut since the Apollo moon missions of the 1960s and ’70s.
By Kenneth Chang
A neurologist in Colombia, he worked with the world’s largest extended family with Alzheimer’s and helped fuel research to prevent or delay dementia symptoms.
By Pam Belluck
The agency said Keurig, in its financial filings, had claimed its pods could be “effectively recycled” but didn’t note that two big recycling companies wouldn’t accept them.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
U.S. inspectors listed serious problems in 2022 that could have resulted in strict measures like a pause in production. But the plant continued operating, and some conditions persisted.
By Christina Jewett and Teddy Rosenbluth
Healthy Black women with low risk factors were far more likely to get C-sections than white women with similar medical histories, a large new study found.
By Sarah Kliff
The mission is taking people farther from Earth than anyone has traveled since the end of NASA’s Apollo moon missions.
By Kenneth Chang
Patients received “substantial” payments, their lawyers said, and the clinic agreed to staffing changes.
By Sarah Kliff
While the Line fire burns in Southern California, what can we learn from how a changing climate has affected an expanding fire season?
By Austyn Gaffney
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Neuroimaging found girls experienced cortical thinning far faster than boys did during the first year of Covid lockdowns.
By Ellen Barry
In 10 flights over Japan, researchers found a host of bacteria and fungi. These high-altitude germs could help spread disease around the world.
By Carl Zimmer
X-ray videos showed that some young Japanese eels demonstrated that they were not content to become a predator’s meal.
By Annie Roth
It’s not just rural farms. Urban animal markets are fertile grounds for viral transmission, experts say.
By Apoorva Mandavilli and Juan Arredondo
The suds that go down the drain can be harmful to wildlife. We’ve got tips on how to clean clothes and support nature.
By Elizabeth Anne Brown
A sheriff fought to give prisoners addicted to opioids a shot that suppresses cravings for a month. Upon release, they were more likely to continue treatment.
By Jan Hoffman
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