![]() | New Clue to How Matter Outlasted Antimatter at the Big Bang Is Found |
Physicists working at the CERN particle physics lab said they detected a slight but significant difference in how particles of matter and antimatter decay. | |
![]() | Ceratosaur Fossil Auctioned for $30.5 Million by Sotheby?s |
The price paid for the juvenile specimen of the 150-million-year old predatory dinosaur is the third-highest on record. | |
![]() | This Golden Fungus Is Spreading Wildly in North America?s Forests |
The golden oyster mushroom, a tasty species native to Asia, has proliferated in states around the Great Lakes and may crowd out native species, a new study shows. | |
![]() | Amid Devastating Winter Losses, Another Threat Looms For U.S. Beekeepers |
The parasitic Tropilaelaps mite, which threatens honeybees and the food supply, isn?t in North America. Yet. | |
![]() | Videos From the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship |
Scientists are trying to understand footage that showed ocelots and opossums, usually predator and prey, hanging out together. | |
![]() | Snakes Use Smelly Musk to Keep Ants Out of Their Pants |
Forget fangs full of venom ? the backsides of serpents pack secretions volatile enough to kill insect invaders. | |
![]() | Apollo-Soyuz 50th Anniversary: A Handshake in Orbit That Transformed the Space Race |
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human spaceflight. | |
![]() | Earth Is Spinning Faster, Making Some Summer Days Shorter |
The planet?s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we?re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer. | |
![]() | How Much of Our ?Math, Revealed? Series Did You Retain? Try This Quiz. |
Test your knowledge of taxicab geometry, triangular numbers, the golden ratio and more. | |
![]() | Beware of ?Swiper,? a Fox at Grand Teton Park With a Penchant for Footwear |
One or more foxes have stolen at least 32 shoes, according to park officials, who warned campers to guard their belongings. | |
![]() | Interior Dept. to Put Wind and Solar Projects Through Stricter Political Review |
Industry groups said the directive could create new delays and bottlenecks for renewable energy projects across the country. | |
![]() | E.P.A. Delays Required Cleanups of Toxic Coal Ash Landfills |
President Trump also exempted some coal plants, chemical manufacturers and ore processing facilities from pollution rules for two years. | |
![]() | F.D.A. Approves Juul Vapes After Yearslong Delay |
The company was accused of marketing its products to teenagers, causing a surge in use. | |
![]() | Mauna Loa Observatory Is One NOAA Site That Could Close Because of Budget Cuts |
Closing Mauna Loa and three other U.S. sites that track greenhouse gases would disrupt a decades-long record of the planet?s changing atmosphere. | |
![]() | F.D.A. Panelists Call for Removal of Warnings on Menopause Treatments |
Dr. Marty Makary, the agency?s commissioner, said too many women avoid hormone therapy because the risks have been overstated. | |
![]() | The West?s Megadrought Might Not Let Up for Decades, Study Suggests |
Clues from another dry spell 6,000 years ago are helping scientists understand what?s driving the latest one, and why it?s been so unrelenting. | |
![]() | Upended by Meth, Some Communities Are Paying Users to Quit |
Unlike with opioids, there is no medication to suppress cravings for meth and other stimulants. As use soars, hundreds of clinics are trying a radically different approach. | |
![]() | H.H.S. Finalizes Thousands of Layoffs After Supreme Court Decision |
Staff members who were first notified of terminations in April were finally let go late Monday. | |
![]() | Trump Administration Will Limit Medicare Spending on Pricey Bandages |
In an about-face, the administration is cracking down on so-called skin substitutes, overused treatments that cost Medicare more than $10 billion last year. | |
![]() | How to Find the Right Medical Rehab Services |
Specialized hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and home health agencies provide rehab therapy. Insurers may limit the services you can get. | |
![]() | Even Grave Errors at Rehab Hospitals Go Unpenalized and Undisclosed |
For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn?t tell consumers about troubling inspections. | |
![]() | Arizona Governor Seeks Investigation of Federal Handling of Grand Canyon Fire |
Gov. Katie Hobbs questioned why the U.S. government decided to manage the Dragon Bravo fire, which started with a lightning strike, as a ?controlled burn? during the height of the summer. | |
![]() | South African AIDS Activist Pushes for H.I.V. Treatment Access After U.S.-Aid Cuts |
Zackie Achmat, once at the center of South Africa?s push for lifesaving H.I.V. treatment, has come out of retirement as U.S. funding cuts and his own government?s inertia revive old fears. | |
![]() | Arizona Resident Dies From Plague, Officials Say |
The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said. | |
![]() | Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Precision to GPS, Dies at 92 |
He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of matter predicted by Albert Einstein. | |
![]() | Flash Floods Are the ?Hardest Kind? of Disaster to Prevent, Experts Say |
Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and warn those at risk. | |
![]() | Denver Museum Finds a Dinosaur Fossil Under Its Parking Lot |
The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was found during a drilling project. | |
![]() | Ben Jealous, Sierra Club?s Executive Director, on Leave After Rocky Tenure |
Ben Jealous, who joined the environmental group in 2023, has clashed with some employees and the organization?s union. | |
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